Distribution

• We recycle the wooden pallets used from inbound delivery of materials by sending these back to the manufacturer on a returning truck.
  
• We re-use pallets collected from our clients’ building sites.

Partners & Suppliers

• Trespa - Produce external and internal high performance cladding materials; click here for strong eco-credentials. Vivalda are the no. 1 distributor for Trespa in the UK.
  
  
• Marley Eternit - Produce external and internal decorative cladding materials & building boards, click here for strong eco-credentials.
  
  
• Wiles Greenworld - Eco award winning stationery supply company, who supply Vivalda with stationary and recycle our waste paper.
  
  
• Ethos - Eco-waste recycling company, dispose of 90% of Vivalda London’s cladding and building boards waste material into road grit.

Communication

• We communicate by e-mail, run appointments via PC based calendar, and avoid printing unless essential.
  
• We recycle our ink cartridges.

Waste Disposal & Recycling

• We only use recycled paper, which gets collected and recycled again.
  
• We use any miss-printed paper for phone message notes.
  
• We pay for our waste to be disposed of according to strict environmentally friendly standards by a professional waste company.
  
• We order our office milk in recyclable glass bottles from the milkman.
  
• Our washrooms are equipped with hand dryers to avoid paper waste.
  
• Our washrooms are equipped with pedal-push water fountains to reduce water wastage.

Transport

• Our new fleet cars are eco-friendly, in the bottom two CO2 emissions bandings.
• We group together our customer’s deliveries on fuel efficient delivery runs to minimise emissions.
• For sales appointments and customer meetings we travel by public transport whenever possible.
• We car share where possible.

Energy

• We do not provide heating in the warehouse, as it produces too much lost energy, and staff are issued with appropriate clothing as a result.
• We pay both the additional climate change taxes on our electricity bill to off-set CO2 emissions as a high energy user due to our manufacturing equipment.