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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.)
- Teaming up with CarbonClick, a New Zealand company, making it easy for people and businesses to help fight climate change. When you add a small contribution during the checkout process, CarbonClick puts them towards offsets which reduce the environmental impact of the carbon emissions related to the purchase (most commonly freight and delivery services).
- Making our own monthly contributions 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.
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We were honored to be featured on The Floral Shop Podcast chatting about Cymbidium and our sustainability practices.
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Composting Floral Scraps with Crow's Feat Farm...
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