Carrier Bag Shop believes strongly in the environment, and as a leader in the packaging
industry we need to be innovators in providing environmentally friendly packaging
solutions.
When you are buying from Carrier Bag Shop you can be confident that our products
are as environmentally friendly as possible and if you have any questions about
the environmental impact that the packaging you use has then please do not hesitate
to get in touch.
Not only do we make sure that the products that we supply are eco friendly, we also
support as many initiatives as possible. Details of these are below.
Our Environmental Policy
When you buy from Carrier Bag Shop, you can rest assured that the products you buy,
to the best of our knowledge, we aim to do the following:
- Comply with all relevant environmental laws, regulations and standards.
- Ensure that all of our waste is disposed of in a safe and responsible way.
- Promote awareness amongst our staff of the environmental initiatives we are involved
in and how they can contribute.
- Endeavour to source all of our products from organisations who work towards minimising
their environmental impact.
- Review our environmental policy on an annual basis taking in to consideration developments
in industry & government legislation and social expectations & requirements.
In order to achieve these goals we will:
- Include relevant environmental information with our products online and offline
to create awareness to our clients.
- Try and provide our staff with the relevant support to reduce their environmental
impact.
- Continuously asses our processes and actions to reduce the environmental impact.
- Establish annual targets that will help us achieve our environmental performance.
- Ensure that our suppliers have full credentials to support the low carbon impact
of their manufacturing, delivery and operational processes.
- Promote and encourage our suppliers to introduce policies around reducing their
environmental impact.
Our "Bags to Trees" Campaign
Trees are needed to create Paper Bags and we wanted to do an extra little bit for the environment.
We have set up our Bags to Trees initiative, donating money to various foundations
depending on how many paper bags that we sell. The more we sell, the more money
we will donate to selected tree foundations to help plant trees and replace the
ones that have been used in the manufacturing of the bags.
As part of our charity drive, for all our customers ordering printed packaging,
we also have a special logo as you can see on the left hand side. Carrier Bag Shop
will add £5.00 to our charity pot for distribution to our charities.
We like to call it being environmentally friendly retrospectively!
Spread the "Bags to Trees" Message
As part of our charity drive, for all our customers ordering printed packaging,
we also have a special logo as you can see on the right hand side. Carrier Bag Shop
will add £5.00 to our charity pot for distribution to our charities. This offer
is extended to plastic as well as paper bags. All you have to do is carry the logo
on your bgs to qualify for this discount, its as easy as that. By helping the environment
you are doing sommething great, and make sure that people know about it! Thank you
for supporting Carrier Bag Shop, Tree Aid and The Tree Council and our other charitable
and environmental projects.
The Tree Council - Working Together for Trees
The Tree Council promotes the planting and conservation of trees in towns and country
sides. The lead UK tree campaigning partnership, it is an umbrella body for 150
organisations working together for trees. It is also a forum for tackling issues
relating to trees and woods.
The Tree Council depends principally on donations, legacies and sponsorship. To
find out more visit www.treecouncil.org.uk
"Our goal is to make trees matter to everyone, as well as to get more trees, of
the right kind and in the right places. We are therefore very grateful to Carrier
Bag Shop for supporting our work. We want to help more people appreciate the many
values of trees - and one of these is as a sustainable source of raw material for
packaging."
Pauline Buchanan-Black, Director General, The Tree
Council
Tree Aid
In rural Africa, trees feed, provide energy and improve the environment for millions
of families. But rapid deforestation in the drylands of Africa is depriving people
of these essential resources. TREE AID works village by village to support communities
to meet their basic needs and secure vital income from trees. They do this through
training for and funding of community forestry projects.
"Tree Aid are very happy to receive the donations of Carrier Bag Shop. Together
we can make a difference to the lives of many villages in rural Africa, helping
to develop self reliant communities."
Miranda Spitteler, Chief Executive, Tree Aid
Look through our online shop and be sure to check out all products with the Tree
Aid and Tree Council graphic next to them. With the great fluctuations in pricing
on raw materials, products and currency fluctuations, we are no longer able to put
a value on the amount that we will donate, however will make it our aim to make
sure it is no lower that 0.5% of the sale price of the products.