The whole world has gone crazy for the environment and so it should. This is our planet and we’ve spent far too long ruining it, which has to change. So the idea of trying to run a manufacturing and garden building distribution company in an environmentally friendly way, or at least as environmentally friendly way as we can, doesn’t take much thinking about as there are plenty of ways in which us humble garden building creators can help to minimise our impact on the environment.
All of our wooden garden building products are made from timber from sustainable forests, which are managed and maintained to perpetuate the supply without compromising the forests that it comes from for a start and not only do we use sustainable timber, but we make sure that nothing goes to waste.
As our buildings range in size and shape from small wooden storage solutions, playhouses, wooden sheds, and log cabins, and timber comes in specific lengths there are occasions when timbers are cut to the precise measurements for a building leaving off-cuts that another manufacturer would just discarded. We, however, take these off-cuts and incorporate them, where we can, in to new buildings or pre-existing buildings that require such lengths of wood. In short we use one piece of timber for two buildings, leaving even less waste.
When chopping and sawing down the timber for the panels and boards of our sectionl buildings and wall boards for our log cabins buildings we accumulate a lot of saw dust. Normally seen as a waste by-product of the manufacturing process we allow it to become a profitable part of our business. The saw dust gets drawn into our extraction system and blown into trailers. It is then graded and dust goes into cat litter manufacture, sawdust “crumbs” go into pet packs for animals such as hamsters and gerbils and the shavings are used in the equestrian market for stables and show rings.
Another aspect of our environmentally friendly manufacturing policy is highlighted by the fact that supermarkets are being forced, by popular descent, to reduce packaging of their products as they are seen as a great contributor to the problem of waste in our country. It’s simple, the less packaging a company uses the less waste is created by the end user. Garden Buildings Direct have always employed the same ethos when it comes to packaging for their garden buildings. Basically, short of a binding strap to hold the sections of the building together in transit and as little polythene as possible for the nuts and screws, we use minimal packaging helping to reduce waste in the same way.
With our mind firmly fixed on helping out our planet we strive to do our bit to reduce our environmental impact. So when you want to purchase a garden building product that you know has not ‘cost the earth’ you can’t do much better than coming to us at Garden Buildings Direct.
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