We believe that our products will be very helpful to people wishing to protect their urban environment. However we are very mindful that, with this product, we are creating yet more plastic which may eventually end up in a landfill somewhere.
In order to reduce our carbon footprint to the minimum we have adopted the following practices:
The ezeleash handle has been designed to last as long as possible. When it finally comes to the end of its useful life, it is recyclable.
We have endeavoured to reduce the packaging on our ezeleash, and its accessories, to the minimum. All packaging can be separated and recycled.
When purchasing via our website, to those who would like, we offer ezeleash delivered without packaging. This option, as well as helping to save the planet, will save the purchaser $4.00. (in case you are wondering, the packaging costs us about $1.00 to produce).
We hope that, when ezeleash becomes well enough established, we will be able to do away with packaging all together.
We recycle our packaging, and even collect and use cardboard boxes from other companies that would otherwise have been sent to the landfill.
When most supermarkets are endeavouring to reduce the number of plastic bags we use, it doesn't seem very green to be introducing more. The reality is that plastic bags have their uses. Many people already reuse their plastic supermarket bags. Bin liners, dog poop pickup ... let's face it, they are very useful. If supermarket bags cease to exist, then they will inevitably be replaced to some extent by plastic bags targeted at specific uses.
With this in mind, we have opted to use boidegradable plastic in our dog poop bags. Although it makes the bags slightly more expensive to produce, we believe that people prefer to have this choice available.
If you believe you have an idea that can help us further in this area, please feel free to contact us.
In case you are wondering why we display the SPCA logo, it is because we donate $1.00 to this fantastic organisation for every lead sold via our website store.