Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and smile – Our new approach to packaging

DID YOU KNOW: 7 Million Tonnes of Cardboard is sent to landfill EVERY year?

Recycling cardboard needs just 24% of the energy required to make a new cardboard.

Recycling one ton of cardboard can save more than nine cubic yards of landfill space.

Some of you might have noticed a change at This Is Nessie HQ when it comes to how your order arrives. Something we’re really conscious of in 2022 is our approach to the environment, and how we can try and reduce our carbon footprint from here at the studio.

As a parent of four youngsters, I sometimes watch the news with anxiety in the pit of my stomach at what the future might hold for them. They will be facing the consequences of my generation and the decisions we have made over the last fifty years for the rest of their lives. I want to be able to look them in the eye when I’m old and grey and tell them I did what I could.

Now obviously there are lots of elements to this, from planting trees, removing plastics from our processes, reducing our electricity use, switching to renewables where possible but I want to share with you the one that’s likely to impact you guys.

In the studio we always have boxes coming in for deliveries, and normally these are recycled or burnt, but earlier this year Mr TIN and I were thinking – well why don’t we use some of these boxes to hold your lovely orders and get them safely to their new homes. Inside the box is still the beautifully presented item, your order is still the same amazing quality we’ve always had – just the box it arrives in might not be quite so pretty as before. Our logic is, while they might not be pretty they are helping to save the planet – and that’s a pretty good excuse right?

If this doesn’t convince you, recycling our packaging also helps us to reduce our costs, and in the face of rising living costs and cost of goods, we’re able to limit the need to raise our product prices. That doesn’t sound too bad, does it?

If you would like it to be packed extra specially we will still have our gift wrap option for customers. If you select this we ensure the item is beautifully packaged for that wholesome unboxing experience we know is so loved by our customers.

So we hope that when your lovely order arrives, you are able to look past the packaging and enjoy the contents knowing that you’re helping us do our bit to help the next generation.