Sustainability of Artificial Plants, Trees and Flowers
Choosing artificial plants, flowers, and trees can be a fantastic way to embrace sustainability. One of the best things about artificial greenery is its long-lasting nature. Unlike natural plants that need regular watering, fertilising, and pruning, artificial plants require minimal maintenance. This means you save water and avoid using chemical fertilisers and pesticides, making it a win for the environment and your schedule!
Additionally, because artificial plants are so durable, you can often donate or repurpose them, giving them a second life and keeping them out of landfills. By thinking about the end-of-life options for artificial plants, you can make an even bigger positive impact on the environment.
Many of our products are timber – that's why our artificial trees look so real! We are working to introduce more products that are from FSC certified forests. Forest Management (FM) shows the forest managers or owners are managing their forests in a responsible way and meet FSC standards and Chain Of Custody (CoC) which provides a guarantee about the production and source of FSC-certified products.
Social Responsibility
We carefully select our manufacturers and are working with factories who have the ethos to protect the wellbeing of their workers and the environment.
Many of our factories work under the following schemes:
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ISO 9001 provides verification the supplier’s ability to provide products that conform to required standards and quality.
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The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) is a leading supply chain management system that supports companies to drive social compliance and improvements within the factories and farms in their global supply chains.
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BSCI implements the principle international labour standards protecting workers’ rights, such as International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions and declarations, the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and guidelines for multinational enterprises of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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SEDEX supports companies to overcome the challenge of traceability, implement responsible business practices and manage risks.
We obtain information from our factories which include ensuring freedom of employment, safe and hygienic working conditions, living wage standards, no child labour used and no excessive working hours.