At Silverchilli we are keen to ensure that we do our bit for the environment and that we consider it throughout our business activities. We can't pretend that the silver our silversmiths use isn't mined, but we are conscious that there are other things we can do to make some contribution to off-setting the effect of that activity. Notably there are things we can do to neutralise the carbon that our business creates through international deliveries, and we can choose our packaging carefully to ensure that it is as environmentally friendly as possible.

 Carbon Neutralising

How do we do that?! Easy.... plant trees! As many as is necessary to neutralise the whole cargo plane that our deliveries arrive on.... not just the tiny percentage to cover our own parcels. We figure we should go the whole way in case none of our cargo neighbours did anything to offset the rest of the plane!

Equally we also offset all our business travel both internationally and in the UK. In partnership with UK charity, The Woodland Trust, Silverchilli has started planting trees in woods around the UK. It takes just 5 trees to neutralise the carbon from an entire plane which flies from Mexico to London. If you would like to join us by offsetting your holiday flights then just email environment@silverchilli.com and we'll happily pass on the details, so we can literally grow together.

 Stationary & Supplies

All our headed paper, delivery notes and other literature are printed on recycled paper. As a business we use the reverse of each sheet of waste paper and we send all catalogues as .pdf files, ensuring that we never have to discard piles of out of date literature.

 Packaging

We use recycled packaging wherever possible, but more importantly we re-use as much of the packaging that comes our way too. So if you ever get polystyrene chips from us, it is not because we bought them! We are simply reusing the ones sent to us. Equally, forgive us if you think you delivery box looks a little lived it.... it is because it is re-used. We are trying to tread as lightly on the earth as possible. However, if you are ever sending a gift through us, have no fear! We will always use brand new boxes, as we understand that not everyone may realise that there is an environmental objective behind our packaging choices.

And all that office waste paper that was used on both sides… turns into the shredded paper that protects your beautiful Silverchilli jewellery en route to you, ensuring that it turns up in good condition.

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