Packaging

Packaging makes a significant contribution to the ever-increasing amount of waste produced by everyone. As a key player in the packaging supply chain, we have a legal and morel obligation to understand how much of each type of packaging material passes through our hands and to promote packaging reduction and recycling.

 It is our policy to:

• Work with product suppliers to reduce the amount of packaging, including transit or ‘secondary’ packaging, to the minimum required to be fit for purpose.
• Design packaging so that it can be easily recycled, ie use single materials where possible, or where more than one material has to be used ensure they are separable.
• Wherever possible specify the use of post-consumer recycled materials in packaging.
• Avoid the presence of hazardous chemical residues in packaging, for example from the use of inks and dyes
• Identify materials used in packaging, especially plastics, to assist recycling
• Encourage our customers to reuse or recycle packaging, where practicable
• Ensure that any product labelling that makes environmental or social claims about a product, is verifiable
• Packaging makes a significant contribution to the ever-increasing amount of waste produced by everyone. As a key player in the packaging supply chain, we have a legal and morel obligation to understand how much of each type of packaging material passes through our hands and to promote packaging reduction and recycling.