RESPONSIBILITY
We take our environmental responsibility seriously, and wherever possible we like to manufacture locally using sustainable materials. We pride ourselves in finding the perfect suppliers to produce our collections. We choose to work with factories that are committed to sustainability and who care about employee happiness as much as we do. As well as the 6 of us at Central 23, there are 93 other people in our UK factories who directly benefit from your Central 23 order. We are passionate about supporting local industries, and are lucky to be able to manufacture a majority of our products in the UK!
OUR CARDS:
Our cards are made in the UK in a small, family run factory headed up by the founder's children. They lead the way when it comes to sustainability; they’ve just moved into a solar powered building, they recycle their off-cuts and even their company vehicles are green!
Our cards are printed on FSC certified board (the industry term for cardboard), which means you can trace it right back to the forest the tree was grown in. This ensures that we know that the entire process from tree, to paper mill, to printers, is sustainable and fair.
We also print digitally, allowing us to only ever print the quantity we need and reduces waste as a result. We use HP Indigo printers which are at the forefront of environmentally sustainable printing. These printers are designed with sustainability in mind. They have easy shutdown modes to save energy and all wearable parts can be recycled.
Any carbon used in the making & delivery of the printers and inks is offset.
None of our designs contain glitter as it is a micro plastic and just isn’t worth the damage it causes. Any foiling we use is recyclable, so our entire range of cards can be recycled.
OUR ENVELOPES:
Our envelopes are made in the UK from FSC certified paper and are 100% recyclable.
OUR CELLO BAGS:
Our, greeting cards are wrapped in plastic cello bags to ensure they reach customers in a sellable condition. The cello bags we use are made from OPP which is recyclable across Europe.
We are continuously searching for biodegradable alternatives as there doesn’t seem to be a perfect one just yet. You can bet our team won’t stop searching until the ideal alternative is found though!
In the meantime, we are going ‘naked’ (ooer) on a lot of the cards we supply to wholesale retailers and hope this will soon become the norm.
OUR STICKERS:
Our stickers are designed and printed in the UK on recyclable paper using vegetable based inks.
OUR WRAPPING PAPER:
Our wrapping paper is designed, made and printed in the UK on FSC certified paper. FSC Paper means we can trace the board right back to the forest the tree was grown in. This ensures we know that the entire process from tree, to paper mill, to printers, is sustainable and fair.
The factory we use for the wrap is ISO 14001 certified which means they have an environmental management system in place, including a chemical free printing process which means no harmful pollutants ending up in water supplies.
They are printed using vegetable based inks, which are vegan. These inks are made of 3 elements; a colourant, a binder and a carrier. Unlike petroleum based inks that has crude oil in the carrier, vegetable inks use vegetable based oils such as linseed or soy. These are produced with less environmental damage than extracting crude oil, and don’t emit any pollutants when being used. It is also easier to strip paper of this dye when it is being recycled, which means more of the paper can be recycled and the process uses less energy than stripping petroleum inks.
Our wrapping papers are wrapped in a paper sleeve, negating the use of plastic.
Our wrapping paper, tags and the paper sleeve are all recyclable and are our greenest product to date!
OUR STICKERS:
Our stickers are designed and printed in the UK on recyclable paper using vegetable based inks.
OUR NOTEBOOKS:
Our notebooks are made in the Midlands, where two families have come together to make the amazing happen. You can’t chat to these guys and not get excited about paper. They source a large quantity of it from one of the last UK paper mills, and can bore you to tears with papery facts. Knowing their stuff like they do means they make some flipping lovely notebooks!
OUR NOTEBOOK COVERS:
Our notebook covers come from boards made in the coolest paper mill ever and are one of the last remaining UK paper mills. They make FSC certified paper and use green energy.
OUR NOTEBOOK PAGES:
All of the pages in our notebooks are FSC certified, which means happy trees from sustainable forests and ethical paper mills.
OUR CELLO BAGS:
Our notebooks have been wrapped in plastic cello bags to ensure they reach customers in a sellable condition.
We are continuously searching for biodegradable alternatives as there doesn’t seem to be a perfect one just yet. You can bet our team won’t stop searching until the ideal alternative is found though!
