DAKTARI sells sustainable loss leaders

Daktari has mainly chosen its partners among Southern countries -India and China. They must fulfil all following conditions :

- Having a promising social audit. A precise follow-up is updated each time the plant is checked and after this first audit.

- Having a global audit that meets Daktari’s requirements as for production capacity, machinery, followed-up products and the possibility to develop new products, etc.

Partners sign a social charter and terms of reference that gets them involved. They are quite often controled through social audits conducted by independent experts. Partners are given some advice to improve the working conditions of the workers.

Daktari organises breakfasts and offers concrete actions such as visiting the partner plants, searching for natural materials, thinking about logistics, funding social audit, etc.

The company mainly uses natural fibers and production patterns that polute less. Wrapping is taken into account when it comes to the design of the products (biodegradable polybags, vegetable inks, limited tests on tincture). The company also pays various eco-friendly wrapping taxes, electric and electronic equipment waste, etc.

Daktari is striving to find solutions that polute less for goods transport : shipowners who signed the « charte bleue » (a charter on sustainable development in sea transport sector) and companies which signed the « clean cargo » agreement are chosen in priority, recyclable pallets are used, river transport is promoted.