OUR KEY COMMITMENTS 2023 Continuing our infrastructure improvements by moving from PCs to mini-PCs for office staff Introducing head office on-site sortation of waste Improving our carbon measurement tools to ensure accuracy across our operations Carbon data and key actions added to M2030 platform Starting a programme to eliminate unnecessary head office lighting and introduce motion-activated lighting Plant and cultivate the new head office wildlife garden Creating more recyclable and reusable display stands Over 88% of our own published calendars are now in plastic-free packaging, that’s 525 titles out of 595 45% of bought in calendars from other publishers have plastic-free packaging or no packaging. We’re confident we’ll be well over 50% this season Our dog breed slim calendar collection successfully converted to plastic-free packaging alongside large scale breed calendars and our easel formats 96% of Calendar Club calendar products now utilise FSC paper Plastic packaging on our sock giftware collection reduced by half this year We introduced biodegradable packaging bags for our bespoke charity Christmas card ranges, removing plastic waste on over 110,000 card packs PRODUCT ACHIEVEMENTS 2024 Introducing an electric car funding scheme to assist staff to make the move from traditional fuel vehicles to fully electric vehicles Changing existing office lighting to more energy efficient LED sources Working with printers to increase the use of soya-based inks across our giftware ranges Continuing SBTi work with our suppliers Developing gift product currently still using plastic packaging Reducing the use of finishes on some greetings cards Improving our eco message to end consumers, helping them to recycle/reuse our products We will be rolling out head office on-site waste sortation to our main office areas over 2024 FACTORY audited eco good practice
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