Environmental Policy

As a conscientious, forward-thinking company, we ensure that our products are ethically sourced and uphold our values of being low impact and environmentally friendly.

Like many companies, our products are reliant on the use of plastics. Whilst we innovate our products and continually reduce our impact on the environment, we have established some core policies and principles to ensure that we operate with the lowest impact, and when we do use plastics, we reuse and recycle to the highest potential.

Tags and Retainers

We use a local, accredited manufacturer to mould our products. Over the years we have developed a great working relationship which has enables us to explore highly efficient production methods which help us use almost 100% of the base material.

During the manufacturing process, any tags or retainers which do not meet our high standards are collected and added to the start of the manufacturing process. Doing so gives us an incredibly high yield from the base material and reduces our need to manage waste. 

Cassettes

Our green cassettes serve a simple purpose of integrating the retainers into both the Heavy Duty and Motorised Applicators. Once the 10 retainers have been applied, the cassette is simply empty and ready to reuse. 

We send each of our Motorised Applicators in an environmentally friendly box and encourage our customers to collect empty cassettes as they go. Once the box is full, we provide a free returns label to send them all back. 

From here, we inspect the cassettes for damages and refill the ones we can. Any cassette which has sustained damage that will impede their functionality will be recycled. 

If you require a returns label for your full box of cassettes simply send an e-mail to [email protected] asking for a returns label. We do ask for the cassettes to be in a reusable condition and in a box of 1kg. 

Packaging

We package items both large and small on a daily basis and using eco-friendly packing is a pivotal aspect of what makes us green. 

Small bags - We use plant-based, compostable mailer for all our small items. This bio-degradable mailbag is made from a bio-based polymer which is made of regular field corn and wheat straw. 

Medium boxes - the majority of our packaging is sent in these boxes. They are sourced from a company local to us and are ISO14001 certified. Our boxes are made from 67% recycled material and all of the waste cardboard and paper are recycled into new products.   

Large Boxes - Our larger boxes are designed to cleverly act as a recycling box for our cassettes. This means we get two uses out of each one. When they are returned to us full with empty cassettes, they are then inspected and either placed in our recycling bins and processed according to our green policies or refilled and reused. 

Office

Our office is fitted with modern LED light panels which reduced our energy consumption by 55%

In addition, we use a minimal amount of paper to operate and encourage our customers not to print e-mails and attachments where possible.  

In the instances where we do have to use paper, a number of recycling points are clearly visible throughout the office and production areas. 

We will strive to make further innovations to our products and operations to make us even greener. Please feel free to contact us if you have any comments or want to find out more.