The world is slowly changing to a more sustainable mindset. We’re really thinking about our impact on the earth and the effect our behaviour has on the environment. As a small business making handmade gifts, we feel it’s important to play in our part in this shift and support plastic free gifting.
Plastic free gifting at Stamped With Love
A large majority of our customers purchase our products as gifts. We want to contribute to the zero waste movement as much as possible, and we value plastic free gifting greatly.
We’re doing lots to reduce the business’ impact on the world from our choice of packaging, to offsetting carbon emissions and supporting fellow businesses with a similar mission.
As well as focusing on our processes becoming waste free, we’re also committed to developing a range of specific waste reduction gifts to eliminate single use plastic.
For example, we make handmade aluminum bookmarks and plant markers. Both of these items are frequently found with plastic included – bookmarks are coated in plastic and plant markers are often fully plastic. By using our durable metal bookmarks and plant markers, we’re reducing the amount of plastic in the world. At the end of their (very long) life, our products are indefinitely recyclable due to the materials we use.
If you have a request for a reusable, sustainable product you’d like us to make, get in touch.
We use Ecologi to become a climate positive company. Each month we make a payment and they offset our carbon footprint via different ventures. An example of a project is the Reforesting Dalry, Scotland. You can view our Ecologi profile to see our progress and our tree tally.
100% Sustainable and Recyclable Packaging
In recent years we made some changes to our packaging to have 100% sustainable and recyclable packaging. These changes include switching to boxes instead of non-recyclable bubble wrap mailers, swapped organza bags to paper bags and using paper tape instead of plastic tape.
Wider Changes For Plastic Free Gifting
We also make a point to ask our suppliers to send plastic free deliveries and reuse packaging where possible. This is an ongoing topic and we’re always looking to improve this aspect.
For delivery of our orders we use Royal Mail who are committed to reducing their impact on the environment.
As part of our commitment to being climate positive, we plant extra trees through Ecologi for every international order.
Regular Environmental Audits
Whilst we’re making every effort to make changes, we know that these things are never static and change all the time. So, we take regular environmental audits to make sure we’re on top of anything we can do to change and improve our business practises.
Instead of making changes once and then ignoring it, we want to be proactive about having a positive impact at every step!
Plastic Free Gifting For Every Occasion
Here at Stamped with Love, we have a huge variety of plastic free gifts for all occasions. Whether you’re shopping for a loved one or a treat for yourself, we’ve got you covered.
We’re always happy to take commissions, so if you can’t find that perfect gift we can make it for you!
Here’s a selection of our best selling products your loved one is sure to adore!
As well as selling a range of plastic free gifts ourselves, we’re also huge cheerleaders for fellow small businesses who adopt a climate positive outlook. Here’s just 3 of our favourites:
Cottage Coppicing
As well as making her products from selected recycled wood and windfall timber, Lisa also sells a variety of specifically zero waste and environmentally supporting crafts such as this gorgeous bee house and flower trug.
Cottage Coppicing also reuses others packaging and scours local pages to save any being sent to landfill – we love a bit of reuse and upcycle!
Twoodle Co is another brand we love. Everything about them is totally natural with a heavy emphasis on doing good for the environment and animals. All their products are made from ingredients from sustainable sources, free from all animal ingredients and processes, are GM-free and organic where possible.
Their candles are made with hemp wax made in house and all products are plastic free/ biodegradable and eco friendly!
We love everything TwoodleCo stands for and their scents are to die for – particularly the English Rose collection.
Woola Woola are all about ditching single use plastics with ease and they do it in style with a variety of reusable bags, cutlery pouches, lunch bags and much more. Their star product is their Poppins Pouch which has over 100 uses as showcased in their Poppins100 project, we’re a huge fan of multi-use so this ticks so many boxes!
As well as their fantastic eco products, they use bankrupt stock for their stationery to avoid it ending up in landfill, and their fabric scraps goes to someone who makes quilts for end of life patients. Plus selvedges of fabric go to Cats Protection as kittens love to play with them. This unique repurposing of waste means they have zero fabric wastage.
If you’re a small business looking to improve your environmental impact – have a read of our blog.
Inspiring you to go plastic free
We hope we’ve inspired you to choose plastic free gifting next time you’re present shopping. If you have any questions or ideas for zero waste products, let us know, we’d love to hear from you!
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