{"id":129,"date":"2017-11-15T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:53:19","slug":"sustainably-sourced-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/sustainably-sourced-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainably Sourced Packaging &#8211; Brick Slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141\" src=\"http:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/box-blur-standard.jpg\" alt=\"box brick slips standard\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/box-blur-standard.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/box-blur-standard-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/box-blur-standard-768x459.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Here at BrickSlips our Sustainably Sourced Packaging is a critical element to our success. Our packaging ensures that our <a href=\"http:\/\/brickslips.com\/handmade-brick-slips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">products<\/a> reach our customers safe and securely. It can also provide important information about the product inside.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Packaging is something we have always thought carefully about. We understand that we have an obligation to reduce the environmental impact of our packaging. Responsibly in terms of raw materials we are constantly monitoring what we do.<\/p>\n<p>All of our brick slips are packaged with corrugated cardboard, corrugated card is one of the most recycled materials available.<\/p>\n<p>That means that both our brick slip boxes and our sample cardboard uses only materials from sustainable sources.<\/p>\n<p>The cardboard we source is made from at least 90% recycled fibres and no less than 100% of the product can be recycled again.<\/p>\n<p>Our boxes and nets are designed to use the minimum amount of cardboard and create the minimum amount of wastage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/brick-slip-standard-box-packaging.jpg\" alt=\"brick slip standard box packaging\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/brick-slip-standard-box-packaging.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/brick-slip-standard-box-packaging-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/brick-slip-standard-box-packaging-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>It\u2019s all in the chain<\/h3>\n<p>Our supply chain has The Carbon Trust Standard, the world\u2019s first carbon award that requires the measurement, management and reduction of actual carbon footprint. Year on year reductions are achieved and our raw material suppliers are certified to ISO 14000 the international environmental management system standard.<\/p>\n<h3>Our Objective<\/h3>\n<p>To continue to systematically analyse and optimise the packaging of our brick slips and samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at BrickSlips our Sustainably Sourced Packaging is a critical element to our success. Our packaging ensures that our products reach our customers safe and securely. It can also provide important information about the product inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,4,40],"tags":[38,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickslips.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}