# Sterling Rope

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2023
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2023)
**Industry:** Gear + Lifestyle
**Website:** https://sterlingrope.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://sterlingrope.com/sustainability

## Sustainability story

Sterling has always been a sustainable rope company. Our goal is to minimize waste wherever possible. All our waste fiber is recycled, all our cardboard is repurposed, our oils and cleaners are captured and disposed of properly, and plastic bags used to protect our yarn coming in are used to protect our ropes and spools going out. We are going above and beyond the work we are already doing by becoming Climate Neutral Certified. We are honored to work with Climate Neutral to measure our 2020 carbon footprint, offset it in its entirety by purchasing quality carbon credits, and reduce our emissions moving forward.

## Emissions (2023)

**Methodology:** Sterling Rope's emissions inventory uses a mix of spending and activity-based data. Sterling Rope attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 118 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 4,047 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 4,164 tCO2e**

### Emissions history (tCO2e)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 4,047 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 2** — We plan to purchase renewable energy from Maine Green Power. (source: Electricity, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce energy usage from our manufacturing operations. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce our emissions from electricity by purchasing solar power energy from one or more community solar projects that are currently under development in Maine through a company called Community Solar. (source: Electricity, target: Q1 2022, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from our purchased goods and services through leveraging bluesign® data. (source: Operational waste, target: Q1 2024, completion: 1%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to replace dynamic rope packaging polybags with a recyclable (paper) bag for 100% of our packaging. We also plan to replace synthetic paper packaging wraps with a renewable or recycled substrate. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2023, completion: 25%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce the waste associated with the recycling of our products. (source: Product end-of-life, target: Q4 2023, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 25% of nylon used to recycled materials across our Sterling bag line of products. (source: Raw materials, target: Q3 2025, completion: 1%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 100% plastic bags to biodegradable bags or other environmentally friendly material across all ropes and cord currently packed in bags. (source: Packaging, target: Q3 2025, completion: 25%)

## Climate funding (2023)

**Total funding:** $36,878.45

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $0
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [BVC] GreenTrees ACRE (Advanced Carbon Restored Ecosystem) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $5,733 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2020, location: USA, provider: The Arbor Day Foundation
- [BVC] Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve (Central Kalimantan Peatlands) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $31,145.45 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2018, location: Indonesia, provider: Patch

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