Back at the end of August, we decided to make a Christmas Cake, not in itself an unusual thing, but since then we’ve been adding capfulls of Metaxa, my favourite Greek brandy every couple of weeks! Boy does it smell gorgeous every time we take the lid off for the next instalment of brandy.
Well yesterday saw the final addition of the marzipan and the icing, after of course the last couple of capfulls of Metaxa
Yum yum, I think I’ll have to lock away the car keys for the next couple of days!
I suppose as a small mail order company the company I work for uses quite a large amount of paper! We have to produce invoices, letters, catalogues and we do quarterly offers. Whilst I think everyone in the office has at least an interest in helping the environment, the suggestions we’ve been able to give our customers have been fairly limited. such as doing the usual recycling of letters and catalogues, proper disposal of our pots (due to food regulations we can’t take them back and reuse them!). Don’t forget that the best form of recycling is to pass things on to friends and family once you’ve finished with them.
Within the office we shred any unnecessary paper so we can use it as packing material, we use recyclable pots for our products and we all make a concious effort to reduce the amount of energy we use. We apply a lot of the principals I mention in my previous post about saving energy!
Well recently we’ve managed to make an amazing change to our paper source. We’ve recently been updating a small range within our normal range (Veganicity) and have had to print new catalogues, and working quite hard with our printers I am now pleased to say that our new catalogues will be printed on 55% recycled fibre, with the remainder of the fibre coming from FSC managed sources. We are now also using vegetable based inks. This makes our new catalogues more environmentally friendly as well as being completely recyclable!
The more other businesses start to use the environmental products available the more affordable they will become for everyone!
Tags: recycled, recycle, recyclable, FSC, energy saving
This is just a quick post as I forgot to put something up about this a little while ago.
This year we’ve decided to try and have a greener Christmas! This started by us buying a real Christmas Tree, not from a car park to just sit there for a few weeks, drop all it’s needles on the floor and then get rid of, but a real living Christmas Tree.
We’ve picked a space in the garden for it to be planted after Christmas, with the idea being that as the kids get older the tree gets bigger.
Now all I have to do is hope I don’t kill it!
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