What an exciting day – our lovely new branded pencils have arrived! Not sounding very interesting…? read on, we’ll prove you wrong 🙂 In 2017 we starting seriously addressing the way Paladone looks at plastic. I’m sure you already know that we were the first company to bring biodegradable plastic to the gift industry (we…
It is no secret that global warming is taking a toll on our planet. With movements such as the No Straw Please initiative, a conversation around what we can do to help improve our plastic consumption rather than add to the issue has ensued. As a company, we decided we wanted to do the same.…
Following the successful introduction of biodegradable plastic into our supply chain in May 2018 with a selection of plastic eggcups, we are excited to announce we will be widening its reach by producing in excess of 200 products with BDP plastic. The products made using BDP are naturally decomposable in landfill and recyclable. With…
We are pleased to announce that we will be the first company in the world to bring BDP (naturally decomposing plastic) to the global gift trade by launching a range of giftware using Breakdown Plastic™ technology. Breakdown Plastic’s organic additive, BDP™, is designed to be used in synthetic polymers to enhance the biodegradation of plastics in…
***SCROLL DOWN TO SEE HOW MUCH WATER WE’LL BE SAVING EACH YEAR*** The latest efforts from our dedicated Eco Committee team saw Kirsty Butler, HR, fit ‘Hippos’ to all the toilets around the business. These simple, but ingenious devices save approximately 3 litres per flush and work by holding back some of the water that…
Over the last few years, we’ve been tackling the huge amount of cardboard waste that we create as a business. Shipping millions upon millions of awesome gifts, gadgets and pop-culture merchandise around the world means lots and lots of boxes! Previous efforts have included selling boxes to people moving house (proceeds to charity, of course),…
When we moved to our beautiful new office back in February 2016, there was a mountain of work to be done to get it up to our high standards – a huge amount of which took place in the warehouse. One of the byproducts of setting up new racking was lots of ‘decks’ that we…
Every year at Paladone, as a bi-product of moving millions and millions of products around the globe, hundreds of cardboard boxes become superfluous and are crushed and recycled. While recycling is a great way to deal with unwanted cardboard, we all know that upcycling is even better, so we thought we’d list our unwanted boxes…
One year ago a member of our team, Dai Evans, decided to do something about the enormous amount of pallet wrap (heavy duty cling film) that was being scrapped each day. Pallet wrap is a vital part of our