Sustainability
Since 2005 Cymbidium Floral has been making an effort to use sustainable practices and are continually trying to go even greener.
Our sustainability efforts include:
- Becoming a Green Alliance Business Partner - committed to reducing our own operational impact and the environmental footprint of our customers.
- Encouraging you to recycle your Cymbidium vases* for a credit toward fresh flowers!
- Encouraging you to bring back your Cymbidium packaging materials for us to use again (boxes, ribbon, care instruction tags, water tubes, etc.)
- Making a monthly contribution to CarbonClick to reduce our carbon footprint.
- Utilizing domestic + locally sourced flowers whenever possible.
- Purchasing flowers in their natural state, not dyed, bleached, or painted, as those additional processes aren't environmentally friendly.
- Composting our floral scraps with Mr. Fox Composting and Crow's Feat Farm.
- Changing our packaging to more earth friendly options + reducing our cellophane usage when the weather permits.
- Eliminating the use of floral foam in our arrangements.
- Using plain tap water for our arrangements instead of adding any preservatives.
- Using a reusable compostable ‘eco wrap’ instead of plastic water tubes on loose bouquets.
- Bringing packaging materials (bubble wrap, plastic plant trays, packaging peanuts, etc) to local businesses that can use them again.
- Sourcing products for our shop from companies with similar sustainability practices whenever possible.
- Purchasing office products with the highest recycled contents possible and green non-toxic cleaning supplies.
*Vases must be clean + free of chips and still a style that we currently use in order to receive credit.
We were honored to be featured on The Floral Shop Podcast chatting about Cymbidium and our sustainability practices.