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Corporate Social Responsibility Policy
Our Commitment To Our Environment
Being a conscious consumer ourselves, the Forever Flowers team are striving to make our business as ethical and sustainable as possible. We are concentrating on a few keys areas to lower our carbon footprint and do our bit in the quest to retain resources for generations to come. We are committed to the 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse & Recycle.
Our service considerably reduces carbon, we are exploring local ways to recover and reuse external plastics, and we actively recycle all our floral arrangements, delivering long lasting tributes and sprays that can be used time and again.​
Production
It is good to know that faux flowers often have less environmental impact than regularly having fresh cut flowers in your home. Artificial flowers can be re-used year after year and the carbon cost of getting them is far lower. Fresh flowers are often grown using potentially harmful pesticides and then, due to their very limited shelf life, are transported around the globe as quickly as possible in airplanes and refrigerated lorries. These modes of transport produce massive amounts of greenhouse emissions - around 60-80% more than shipping by sea freight which is our preferred method of delivering faux flowers to the UK.
At Forever Flowers we only work with UK suppliers that share our values that focus on ordering bulk product lines and that consolidate containers to ensure minimal impact resulting in a reduce our carbon footprint.
Local Transportation
Being a sustainable service to funeral industry, we are very aware of the local transportation impact businesses have on the environment. It is therefore our goal to become net zero and implement clean, safe, secure, accessible, affordable, and equitable, and provide sustainable transportation options for people and goods.​
Packing
We are continuously auditing and monitoring our processes and taking steps where possible to switch to greener alternatives. These include:
Our suppliers and partners are committed to ensure cardboard boxes are FSC certified, made from recycled material and we reuse cardboard boxes where possible. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits.
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They use recyclable paper packing tape to seal all boxes that are dispatched from their UK warehouses and keep up consistent dialogue with their overseas suppliers regarding their packing materials and methods, which they in turn have regular factory visits to help drive improvements and monitor performance.
Plastic
By nature, artificial flowers inevitably contain some plastic, but they are not designed to be single use and are normally used for the long term.
However, there are still areas where we can behave responsibly such as:
Reducing plastic where possible. For example: paper wrapped stems, reducing glitter use and introducing ‘no glitter’ floral ranges.
We are committed to moving towards alternative materials in our floral ranges i.e. paper, felt, glass, metal and wood. Any plastic that is used to protect our floral arrangements is 100% recyclable.
People
Not only is our physical environment important but so are the people we share it with. We make every effort to develop relationships with suppliers and agents and conduct regular audits. We also allow long lead times on new product ranges to ensure no undue pressure is placed on our supply chain or staff.
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In the UK we work with several charities by donating a % of funds from sales from our ‘Charity’ package.
In addition, we supply stock for special events, create better spaces, encourage recycling, reuse and reduce waste.
