Dated: February 2026

WHAT DOES “SUSTAINABILITY” MEAN TO US, AND WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT?

“Sustainability” is a term that can be loosely used, yet poorly defined.

This is what our environmental sustainability transition, current actions and future action plan looks like:

GREENHOUSE GAS ASSESSMENT AND CARBON NEUTRALITY

No Pong Natural Products Pty Ltd, at an organisation level, was a carbon neutral company for FY23, and we have continued this commitment through FY24 as we work toward Climate Active Certification.

Greenhouse Gas Assessment:
Early 2024 we opened our own warehouse and as part of that process wanted to ensure that all of our operations were carbon neutral. We’re pleased to confirm that we’ve now gone further than that. 

We always take the view that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t do anything about it”. 

So, with the first step being measurement, we have recently finalised our independent Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GHGA) for the financial year July 2022 – June 2023 and financial year July 2023 – June 2024. This assessment follows strict Australian and International standards and protocols:

• The Australian National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) legislation
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resources Institute’s GHG Protocol
• The National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) Climate Active
• ISO 14064-3: Greenhouse Gases – Specification with guidance for the validation and verification of
• greenhouse gas assertions
• AS/NZS ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems
• Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Guidelines

Results FY24:

We have recently finalised our FY24 assessment. We offset 550 units, even though we only needed to offset 520 units to cover our total emissions. We like to keep a bit of a “buffer” to ensure we are doing our part and then some!

For FY24, we have selected a balanced portfolio designed to support meaningful climate action while maintaining transparency and reputational safety:

Project	%	Why We Chose It
Mytrah Wind Energy Project (India)	80%	Generates renewable electricity to replace fossil energy on the Indian grid with clear, measurable emissions reductions. It supports education, women’s empowerment, and water sanitation.
Southern Cardamom REDD+ (Cambodia)	20%	Protects critical rainforest ecosystems and supports local livelihoods and biodiversity. We chose a conservative 20% allocation to balance biodiversity value with recognised historical risks.

A Note on Transparency: We are aware of previous concerns raised regarding land rights and transparency in the Southern Cardamom project. We chose to continue supporting it at a 20% level because the project has undergone independent review by Verra and implemented updated safeguards, improved grievance mechanisms, and stronger oversight

Results FY23:

Benchmarking FY23:

The results showed we were below some of the greenhouse gas emissions of businesses in similar industries. 

Actions FY23:
We rounded up the 505.79 tonnes to 550 tonnes to cover any additional heavy breathing or accidental “rear end emissions” (we haven’t created a No Pong for that yet!)

We have offset 550 tonnes of carbon across two carbon offset projects both certified by the Australian Government’s Climate Active program.

One of these projects focuses on ecosystem conservation, education, healthcare and clean water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  This project would tick a lot of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that we feel are important for our planet.

The other project is a renewable Wind Power project in the Tamil Nadu state of India which complements the SGD goals above.  Renewable energy and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is something we strongly believe in, and we need more solutions for worldwide.

As an organisation who’s Directors have spent nearly a decade living and working in developing countries, all the while running No Pong, these projects are something we believe are making a difference.

WHAT ELSE ARE WE DOING?

Recycling in Timor Leste:

Timor Leste is one of Australia’s nearest neighbours, only 50min flight from Darwin, and we directly share an ocean. 

In our many trips there we’ve seen firsthand the heartbreaking, and immense reality of plastic pollution.  We’ve paddled through every type of plastic waste including used nappies.

Seeing a problem, we knew we could make an impact on, No Pong directly and wholly funds a recycling pickup and education program in Timor Leste, in collaboration with a Timor based engineering company that is recycling plastic waste into a variety of new building products. 

We aim to provide:
1) An important recycling pickup service, the type we don’t even think about in Australia as it “just happens”,

2) To provide education as to the importance of recycling and not throwing rubbish on the ground, ocean, or simply burning it.  We want to leave our staff and community in a better place than we found them. 

3) Create jobs for unemployed youth in a country where youth unemployment is off the charts.   We’re also providing free English lessons for the community.

So far, we’ve invested over $100,000+ USD  in staffing, logistics and ongoing operations. 

In our first year to January 2026 we had already kept over 79,000kg of waste from landfill.

The plastic and glass being recycled are being turned into building materials by a very impressive Timor based engineering company, who have a “recipe” to recycle materials including soft plastics, bottles containing both PET & HDPE, plus plastic lined tetra paks, and glass ground back into essentially sand, into practical and usable products like building material sheets.