Sustainability Check: We are Officially 95% Waste Free

Sustainability check - we are officially 95% waste free!

As a company we have to deal with a lot of waste. Both in the office, with paper and food and drink waste, and in the process of making and packaging the products. You will now think: How can you claim that you are 95% waste-free???

This is because we do not mean that we do not generate any waste at all, but that the waste we do have is processed in a circular way so that it can be used again as a 99% pure raw material. We call this the circular economy.

We have now managed to process as much as 95% of our waste in this way, how cool is that! For this achievement we received a sustainability certificate from the Milieu Service Nederland last week, and we are incredibly proud of this.

Special thanks to Roy Klaassen, regional manager for central Netherlands at Milieu Service Nederland, who continues to give us good advice on how we can improve even further and who helped us reach 95%.

In total, there are five categories of raw materials that can be recycled. These are paper and cardboard, metal, glass, wood and plastic.

In all these areas we do our best to use as much recycled material as possible and to recycle it again, thus making it circular.

Since our waste streams report in June, we’ve been working hard to make our waste management even better. Our goal is to eventually become 100% waste-free. Since we already make beautiful recycled toilet paper, it would be easy to say that we’re already doing enough and therefore don’t need to aim for 100% waste-free, but we like to make things difficult for ourselves.

All joking aside, we take our sustainability very seriously, and do our best to keep our ecological footprint as small as possible. We also find it important to always remain transparent and honest.

Some things are still delivered to our factory in plastic, but we take responsibility for ensuring that everything is separated and collected and recycled by the Environmental Service.

This way we can provide you with completely plastic-free toilet paper and we have control over what happens to the plastic. There are still things that can be improved, so we will get to work on these, we will keep you informed... on to 100%!