100% FSC® Certified Toys
Our FSC® Certified Toys are made from responsibly sourced materials. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC® Certified) promotes responsible forestry and its international forest certificate system allows both consumers and businesses to know that their wood has been ethically harvested. Bigjigs Toys are FSC® Certified with FSC® C147826.
Sustainable Packaging
Over 80% of the Bigjigs Toys range uses packaging that’s made from 95% recycled cardboard and is printed with soy inks. Our main aim is to avoid overpackaging but still protect every product we sell. Whilst our use of plastic in internal packaging is minimal, we continue to make every effort to reduce that in favour of paper and cardboard inserts.
Bigjigs Toys Environmental Statement
By making correct choices in our purchasing chain, we feel that we can make a positive contribution towards sustainability. Whilst we are a substantial importer of finished product into the UK, we make considered decisions to purchase day to day supplies locally. We give preference to local suppliers who share our sustainability credentials.
Operations
Throughout our day to day operations, the team makes an effort to reduce our impact.
- No direct parcel packaging is purchased – we regularly reuse boxes or buy recycled cardboard to send out orders.
- Zero polythene – you won’t find any polythene in our parcels. In fact, when you receive an order from us, all of the packaging can go in your recycling ( so long as it’s split into material content firstly)
- Two 1,200 litre recycling bins – our appointed waste management team, Biffa, work with us to have our recycling picked up weekly. Biffa collects four times as much landfill waste from us on their weekly collections.
- 99% of our invoices and statements are emailed – paper is only ever used when a customer is unable to accept emails
- Keeping air freight to a minimum – only using air cargo where necessary
- Reducing and reusing packaging – all surplus cardboard that cannot be used for order packing is recycled and collected weekly by MP Waste Management
Bigjigs Solar Project
In December 2011, a 50 kwp/348m square solar generation system was installed on the warehouse roof. This sit-on system should offset 2239 tonnes of carbon dioxide in its 25 year lifetime. The system is cleaned every year to ensure efficiency. We harvest more energy than we use and the extra energy is returned to the National Grid.