Allsorted is committed to, and understands the importance of, reducing our impact on the environment. We appreciate and are concerned with the impact that book publishing and supply has on the environment – and our small part of it - so want to reduce our footprint wherever we can. We are a small business; as a small business we understand that it's the little things that can make the biggest differences, and what we do counts.
Allsorted Does:- Consolidate orders from publishers who use the same warehouse to reduce transport costs.
- Buy from publishers on a ‘firm sale’ basis – no returns to publishers - significantly reducing transport MILES, and reducing carbon footprint.
- Encourage our field sales reps to journey plan to reduce mileage and emissions. They are encouraged to use hotels when travelling longer distances and visit customers on the outer perimeters of their territory over a few days to lessen mileage.
- Encourage customers to place reorders on our website without needing a visit from their sales rep.
- Email invoices, credits & paperwork whenever possible, discouraging printing paper unnecessarily.
- Donate surplus book samples and stock to schools or charities.
- Use local facilities to recycle paper, packaging and waste. Have an onsite compost heap for biodegradable waste.
- Have tree preservation orders for trees surrounding our office.
- Use LED light bulbs where these are compatible with current fixturing
- Encourage more virtual meetings and phone calls, including virtual internal sales meetings
- Encourage sales reps to buy Hybrid/Electric vehicles (they use their own cars, not ‘company’ cars)
- Increase the amount of recycling from our in-house waste and reduce single use plastic
Allsorted supply partners:
- Many of the publishers we buy from - including Penguin DK Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan & Hachette - are part of the ‘Book Chain Project’, an organisation committed to responsible environmental paper sourcing, driving stricter reporting and controls in publishing, and standardising social accountability across the industry. https://bookchainproject.com/h...
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Penguin Random House is 100% FSC certified with their books (2020);
- HarperCollins are committed to purchasing chain of custody certified paper (FSC, PEFC, SFI and CSA);all paper must conform to the EU Timber Regulations in Europe and the Lacey Act in the US;
- The Hachette Group is up to 96.5% (2020);
- MacMillan -”100% of directly purchased & printer supplied paper in the UK” (2020).
- We use a third party contract warehouse, JBH Associates, who are committed to sound environmental practice, making continual improvements to their systems and processes in response to advances in technology and new understandings in environmental science. ALL orders are packed in boxes made from recycled cardboard.
- Our wooden point-of-sale displays come from an FSC certified supplier – one of only a handful of UK certified POS suppliers. https://posdisplaysuk.co.uk/sustainability
- We use DPD, The UK’s Most Sustainable Delivery Company, for our deliveries. DPD are committed to ‘make every parcel we deliver carbon neutral’. https://green.dpd.co.uk/
- Larger pallet orders are despatched via Anglia freight, who are local to our warehouse and are again committed to reducing impact on the environment as part of their business strategy. https://www.angliafreight.co.u...