Each year on April 22nd, people around the world come together to celebrate Earth Day—a moment to reflect on the beauty of our planet and our responsibility to care for it. At Funky Chunky Furniture, sustainability isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a guiding principle woven into everything we do, from the materials we select to the way we craft and deliver our furniture.
Waste Not. Want Not
Sawdust
All our sawdust is re-used. Making solid wood furniture and shelves from timbers does create sawdust. All our sawdust is collected through extraction units, We generate, approximately, twelve bags of sawdust each week, amounting to 12,000 litres. It’s then packaged up and distributed to local stables where it is used as bedding for horses, among other re-uses.
Cardboard
Any cardboard packaging we receive deliveries in gets re-used on site. We have purchased a cardboard shredder that creates a packing material that we now use to wrap and pack our smaller items, such as our Home Accessories range, ready for dispatch.
Wood Off-cuts
Through both the design and manufacture processes we ensure that our wood waste is kept to an absolute minimum. All our off-cuts are either reused for our smaller products, or are used as fuel in our clean-fuel furnace to heat the workshop.
Carbon Neutral Deliveries
What we do
When you pay using Shop Pay, our website calculates the carbon emissions of the delivery of your order, and buys carbon removal to counteract these emissions.
What you can do
To make sure your delivery is carbon neutral choose the Shop Pay option when paying for your purchases on our website. Find out more, here.
Packaging
What we do
Our Sustainability Taskforce is looking into ways to both reduce the amount of packaging we use, and at alternatives. We have previously trialled a bubble wrap made from recycled marine plastic (plastic that has been recovered from oceans and seas), and we are in the process of researching other similar materials.
What you can do
If you receive an order from us, please do take your packaging to be recycled. Plastic bubble wrap can be recycled, and you can find your nearest recycling centre, here.
Ethical Choices
What we do
We’re incredibly proud of this beautiful collection, which accounts for more than 30% of our complete range of Home Accessories. Over the coming months we’re hoping to expand this range of ethically sourced pieces so that it represents a much larger proportion of what we sell.
What you can do
If you want to feel really good about your new home accessories, choose from our Ethical Choices collection. Or, if you’re buying from another retailer, take a moment to consider what they’re made from, and how and where they’re made before making your decision to purchase.
