Ethical policy

• Environment – to continue to reduce the environmental impact of Pickled Green Clothing’s trading operations and to strive for a carbon neutral status in all activities
• Ethics – to ensure that the highest ethical standards are maintained and employed throughout all the activities of Pickled Green Clothing and its suppliers
• Certification – to make sure that all items sold are certified by reputable and recognized independent organizations as applicable or to ensure that all materials origins are known and verified through our own audit trail
• Organic – all cotton items are organic, grown without any chemical fertilizers or pesticides, are GM free and processed into clothes without the use of chemicals
• Fairly traded – supporting the fairtrade movement and ensuring that throughout production the products sold by Pickled Green Clothing adhere to the principles of fairtrade. Thereby, ensuring that those involved in producing the clothes have received a fair wage, work in satisfactory conditions and that no child labour is used
• Handmade – to support traditional and small scale production of handmade products both overseas and locally.
• Shipping – where possible items to be shipped from suppliers using slow ferries to reduce carbon emissions
• Packaging - to reuse where possible packaging and to use recyclable materials for all packaging
• Suppliers - to source and use only suppliers who practice environmentally friendly methods where available in logistics, printing, marketing and other business practices. Where there is no available supplier of certain items to encourage existing suppliers to change and set-up their own environmental policy
• Printing – to reduce paper consumption all marketing materials will be sent electronically unless specifically requested. Any printed materials to be on recycled paper or card and to use low impact dyes
• Recycling – to promote and encourage supply of recycled products for sale, such as jewellery and up-cycled clothes. To ensure the maximum amount of waste is recycled and/or office products purchased are of a recyclable material such as paper, printer cartridges and folders
• Energy efficiency – to be supplied by Ecotricity or a similar green energy provider. Incorporate energy audits into the running of the business and work to reduce energy consumption continually. Lighting the market stall using energy efficient and/or solar lights and powering through rechargeable batteries when possible. Web hosted by Hostpapa who are powered by solar power.