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 We take our social responsibility seriously at Handy Candy. We’re constantly looking at what we do, and how we do them to see if we can lessen the impact on the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling. And we want to help our customers do the same.
Here’s a few things we already do as a business:
- Pay to recycle all our cardboard and paper waste - and there’s loads of it!
- Use bio-degradable void space fill (these are the things that look like Wotsits!) as well as reusing void space fill provided by another local business
- Use recyclable packaging as much as possible such as paper bags, cardboard gift boxes, shredded tissue paper, cardboard mailers
- Please recycle or reuse our packaging when you’ve eaten all your sweeties!
- Conduct around 99% of our business administration and processing online, keeping paper use to an absolute minimum. So we don’t send letters, invoices, print out orders or receipts, hardcopy newsletters or catalogues – it’s all done online, on email and on backend systems
- Around 90% of our sweets are made in the UK, mainly by small-scale confectioners using traditional sweet-making methods. We actively support these UK manufacturers and buy from them directly. We also buy in bulk which keeps transportation to a minimum – one or two big orders a year, not 8 or 9 little ones!
We really like the way we package our sweets so we have to balance what looks good with keeping packaging to a minimum. When processing an order we will look for ways to use as little packaging as possible. This means sometime we’ll pack 2 x 250g of sweets as 1 x 500g.
We’re also lobbying our local authority to be able to recycle plastics. We’re currently not able to do it but we’re making our voice heard and with any luck it will be introduced for businesses shortly – watch this space for further updates on our progress.
And finally, tip no. 988 in Joanna Yarrow’s ‘1,001 Ways to Save the Planet’ says…
“If you can’t get the products you need locally, buying goods online can be an environmentally friendly and time-saving way to shop. When buying from the cyber-aisles, try to plan ahead so that you don’t need to demand super fast delivery times. More flexible postal arrangements allow distributors to run delivery trucks at full capacity and to use more fuel-efficient forms of transport. To save on postage and unnecessary journeys, combine orders with friends, relatives or colleagues. If you home is unoccupied for most of the day, have orders delivered to your workplace, where they can always be accepted – this avoids items having to be re-sent, or you having to make awkward and fuel-consuming trips to the delivery depot, if you’re not home when they arrive”
…and we couldn’t agree more!
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