Our green policy
In any manufacturing process there will be some waste
to deal with. We have five main areas of waste to deal with and we have
adopted the following ways of dealing with them which, we believe, are
the most environmentally-aware and effective.
1. Bark from the ash poles used to make the
head and footboards of the beds.
This is composted on site and then returned to the soil.
2. Timber off-cuts from making the furniture.
These are burnt in woodburning stoves to heat the workshops.
3. Shavings and sawdust generated by the woodworking
machinery.
These are given to a local stables to be used as horse bedding and will
eventually be returned to the soil.
4. Packaging from new mattresses.
The heavy duty polythene which the mattresses are wrapped in is batched
and then taken to a local plastics recycling centre.
5. Collecting your old bed and mattress when
we deliver your new one.
If your old bed is in a good condition it will be offered to a local
charity who help people who could not otherwise afford furniture. If
not, wooden beds are broken up and used as firewood in our woodburing
stoves and metal beds are taken to a local metal recycling centre.
