Environmentally Friendly Policy Doesn't Just Extend To The Practices And Services We Employ, But Also The Products We Sell! Here at Total Cards, as well as being passionate about what we do, we are also highly aware of the environmental impact that the logistical issues and carbon footprint has on the Earth due to the industry we are in.
We have partnered up with Ecologi to help plant as many trees as possible! There are many ways to we help to do this! The main way is the donations that we provide whenever you buy one of our ECO boosters at checkout! You can also donate directly and help us reach our eco goals!
What We Currently Do To Help Reduce Our Own Carbon Footprint:
- Website provider Our website is hosted by a company who is 100% powered by renewable energy from the sun, wind and sea and utilises the energy it generates to power its servers and buildings.
- Boxless Products We offer Boxless options when purchasing. This allows us to reduce the unwanted packaging within parcels, creating less impact within the delivery network and also in turn, offering our customers even lower prices on the products you want. With this, we are then able to reuse and recycle the packaging ourselves, either in the form of shredding which we use to protect parcels during transit, or fully recycle any plastics.
- Electric Delivery Vehicles Our courier of choice, DPD, are actively changing their fleet of delivery vans to be powered by electricity! The move started in 2020 as DPD partnered with Nissan to build 600 new vans and DPD will soon have the biggest fleet of electric vans in the UK. By using DPD as our courier of choice, we are able to send out our customers' orders with the knowledge that efforts are being made to offset the negative impact that is being created by typical delivery vans.
- Carboard Shred We actively reuse cardboard from all our deliveries, which we shred into small cuttings. These cuttings are then used as a sustainable box filler when packing your orders. Our recycled shred works incredibly well at keeping orders safe and protected during transit, cushioning any knocks or bumps that parcels may endure. On some occasions, it is necessary to use bubble wrap to add an extra layer of protection, but we do try to limit this as much as possible. After speaking with customers about this packaging method, we have discovered you guys are also finding ways to reuse the shredding at home, which is great!
We are looking to introduce the following features in the future:
- Plastic-free Packaging Tape We go through a lot of tape here at Total Cards and we are currently looking into alternatives that use less or no plastic to reduce our carbon footprint even further!
- Planting Trees We are also looking at working with companies that help us offset our carbon footprint by making donations to planting trees in areas to help promote a long term effort to restore and extend natural forest habitats providing both a carbon sink and a healthy wildlife ecosystem.
This is just a start of what we hope to be able to achieve and offer, so please keep checking back to see the efforts we are making. If you have any suggestions of how you feel we could improve, or any changes you would like to see us make, please let us know by getting in touch. support@totalcards.net. You can learn more about our eco policies by clicking the button below!
