Sustainability
End-to-End Carbon Neutral Printing and Delivery
Our printing process and subsequent delivery from us to your door is end to end carbon neutral.
We achieve this by choosing to reduce our carbon footprint, from picking greener couriers, where possible, and using cloud based computing services, such as Microsoft Azure, to creating your order geographically closer to you, to reduce the amount of air transportation required to deliver your artwork.
We have even calculated the carbon emissions through employee commuting, alongside all other activities that enable us to operate effectively.
Once we have reduced our emissions as much as possible we are then audited by CarbonFootprint.Com to evaluate our carbon impact independently.
There are some carbon emissions that currently we still cannot eliminate from our operations. As mentioned, we minimise these where possible, and where we cannot reduce further, we offset these emissions via The Gold Standard to help fund projects for a safer climate and a more sustainable world.
In line with WWF guidance, our policy is to not use forestry-based carbon offsetting projects, but instead to invest in renewable energy projects, such as solar electricity generating stations.
Projects that have been helped through carbon offsetting include a Wind Power Project in Rajasthan, as well as another Wind Power Project in Madhya Pradesh.
Sustainable Packaging
When you purchase an artwork from Boarding Complete, we want to get this to you as securely, and as sustainably as possible. To do this, we hand pack each order and ensure we are happy with it before handing it over to our delivery partners.
Your artwork is always protected on all sides by recyclable or biodegradable wrapping materials. Then strong recyclable foam, made from recycled materials is placed on top of our framed artworks to prevent damage in transit. We then Place the artwork into 100% sustainably sourced and recyclable card packaging for dispatch.
For our unframed artworks, we further cover the print with recyclable tissue paper, to prevent scratches and folds. The print is then carefully lightly rolled by hand and placed into a strong and 100% sustainably sourced recyclable tube or envelope (prints kept flat in envelope packaging).
Even the packaging tape we use is sustainable.
We love that delivery of our artwork, is sustainable, carbon neutral, and still one of the fastest art services, getting your artwork from us to you in the best way possible!
FSC Certified Wood
Our Oak, solid wood frames use wood from sustainably managed forests that meet the Forest Stewardship Council's criteria. Our FSC certified wood license code for our frames is: FSC® C021405.
All our oak frames are made in Germany, to a high standard and feature an acid free insert, sturdy back and edge-ground glass (except A1 size frames which use high quality Perspex instead of glass).
Responsible Photographic Papers
We are aware that some photographic papers and printing processes use metals such as Silver, which in turn generate waste products during the production process.
We ensure that these valuable waste by-products are collected and recycled, reducing waste and reusing as much as possible, and preventing unnecessary waste.