Recycled & Environmentally Friendly Packaging Policy
Practical standards for reducing avoidable packaging waste, selecting reusable or recyclable materials where feasible and protecting product integrity while lowering environmental impact.
View all policies↗What this policy is designed to do.
To ensure packaging decisions balance product protection, transport efficiency, client specifications, safety and environmental responsibility rather than treating waste reduction as a separate afterthought.
Who it applies to: Procurement, warehousing, logistics, cold-chain and project teams involved in selecting, purchasing, packing, repacking or disposing of transport and product packaging.
The standards we expect in practice.
These principles guide decisions, conduct and day-to-day execution across the relevant parts of our business.
Avoid unnecessary packaging while preserving the protection, security and temperature performance required by the product.
Prefer reusable, recyclable or recycled-content materials where technically suitable, locally available and commercially reasonable.
Reduce avoidable single-use plastics and excessive void-fill where practical.
Design packing configurations to improve cube utilization and reduce damage or repeat shipments.
Follow client, regulatory and product-specific packaging requirements even where those controls limit recyclable-material options.
Controls that turn policy into evidence.
Controls are scaled to the nature, value and risk of the activity rather than treated as a one-size-fits-all checklist.
Packaging specifications that consider protection, handling, transport mode and environmental impact.
Supplier comparison that includes material efficiency and disposal implications when relevant.
Reuse of suitable pallets, crates, totes or secondary packaging where safe and permitted.
Segregation of cardboard, plastic, wood and other waste streams where practical disposal routes exist.
Cold-chain packaging validation takes priority over waste reduction when temperature integrity or patient safety could be affected.
Clear ownership matters.
Procurement considers packaging requirements during sourcing and supplier evaluation.
Warehouse teams use appropriate packing methods and segregate recoverable material where feasible.
Project managers resolve conflicts between environmental preferences and technical or client requirements.
Operations teams identify repeated packaging waste that can be reduced through redesign or reusable systems.
Policies that work together.
Governance controls overlap by design. These related policies provide additional context for this topic.