What is Eco-Friendly?
Promoclick put additional effort into making sure that we bring as many of our eco-friendly products to you in the most environmentally friendly and ethical way possible.
When we are sourcing our products we have to consider many elements from:
- Materials
- The manufacturing process
- Labour
- Where they are made for transport costs
- Can they be recycled
We grade our items:
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Biodegradable; adjective
Able to decay naturally and harmlessly:
Biodegradable products and packaging helps to limit the amount of harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere -
Ethical; adjective
Adhering to ethical and moral principles (e.g. “It seems ethical and right”)
Conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behaviour -
Fair Trade; noun
Trade carried on under a fair-trade agreement. A way of buying and selling products that makes certain that the original producer receives a fair price -
NON-Polluting; intentionally taking steps to avoid making an area or substance, usually air, water or earth, dirty or harmful to people, animals and plants, especially by adding harmful chemicals
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Organic; adjective
Not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and other products -
Recycled; adjective (Not to be confused with recyclable)
having been used before and then processed so that it can form a new product
Recycling; noun [U]
when paper, glass, plastic etc. is put through a process so that is can be used again -
Sustainable; adjective
Able to continue over a period of time:
Causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time
Most of our products are stored in the UK which helps to minimise the carbon emissions associated with overseas imports, and for the products that we do source from abroad we prefer to use ship rather than air freight for this reason.
We have found from experience that some companies main priority is to buy an eco friendly item and others is to buy ‘a cotton bag’ for example, this can mean that the level in which you would class the item as eco friendly may vary. Therefore we are happy to provide as much information as we can about the source and its process before it gets to you.
We take care, where possible to ensure that our foreign suppliers have ethical supply chains throughout the production process.
