Bathroom manufacturer Tissino has launched a new sustainability initiative to reduce its carbon emissions. The new initiative focuses on Tissino’s delivery service, which will move to allocated delivery days – on average between two and three per retailer per week – expected to reduce carbon emissions by 25% and save an estimated 42.5 tonnes annually.
Tissino will still offer next-day delivery to retailers for a nominal fee of £10, which will be used to plant a tree through the company’s new partnership with Treeapp.
Since the initiative launched at the start of the month, Tissino has already planted enough trees to absorb 16.35 tonnes of CO2 in their lifetime and reforest 240m2 of land.
As well as launching the new delivery initiative, the company has also undertaken further changes to improve its sustainability. This includes moving to LED lighting in their warehouse, which is expected to save 113 tonnes of CO2 over 15 years, the purchase of electric forklift trucks with all domestic and warehouse waste being fully recycled, resulting in generating 12 tonnes of RDF (refuse-derived fuel) – enough to drive 29,020 miles in an electric car during a 12-month period.
Alan Carter, transport manager at Tissino, comments: “As a company, we are fully committed to our responsibility in helping to reduce emissions and move towards Net Zero. It continues to be an on-going journey, but we are constantly evaluating and looking at ways we can improve our sustainability.
“We’ve had great feedback from retailers about a move to dedicated delivery dates, as they understand the bigger picture, though we do offer next day delivery still for any very urgent jobs which are offset by our tree planting scheme.”
For more information on Tissino, visit www.tissino.co.uk