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Sustainability policy
Sustainability is defined as the use, development and protection of resources to meet both current and future generation needs. Collection sustainability policies are collection or institution specific, as they balance the collections economic and social context against the collections environmental impact, while ensuring compliance with local and national legislation. A sustainability action plan is used to identify unsustainable practices, outline a target goal and completion timeframe, and assign responsibilities. A collection sustainability action plan can consider sustainability through the lens of; economic resource use, when considering cost-benefit of collection storage, staffing, procurement, maintenance and waste processes; social capital, when ensuring representational parity through advocacy and stakeholder engagement; and environmental impact, when emphasizing waste reduction, life cycle assessments and environmentally safer alternatives to chemicals and packaging and transport materials.

Sample sustainability policies include:


 * Sustainability action plan of the Australian Museum
 * Sustainability policy of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Australia)