Ethical & Sustainable

We aim to make Choice Fruits as environmentally sustainable as possible and we continuously look for improvements - reducing, reusing and recycling waste helps save landfill space by keeping useful materials out.

Shipping and packaging

All of our products are shipped in recycled boxes (unless otherwise stated). We recycle everything and only those boxes that are too damaged to reuse end up being recycled at our local recycling depot.

We also use the backing paper from our label rolls as packaging.

Our wooden boxes are filled with wood wool – made of natural fibres and biodegradable. It is made from untreated or heat-treated pine. It has no chemicals and is home compostable – it composts like brown material as it is mainly carbon e.g. wood chips/autumn leaves, so needs the presence of green material such as food scraps (C: N ratio of 25-30).

Our beautiful wooden boxes can be kept forever – please don’t throw them away. They are made from strong sustainable wood so can be used for anything.

Composting

We compost all of our food scraps or give suitable fruit and vegetable scraps to our chickens who are the ultimate recyclers by giving us eggs.

Bulk Buying

Since our business has grown, we are now buying all of our products in larger quantities, mostly 25kg at a time. This means there is only one bag/box etc per ingredient, rather than buying in 1kg, 3kg, or 5kg sizing. This means we have reduced the amount of packaging considerably, we also get our Olive Oil and Cider Vinegar in 25 Litre/35 Litre containers, which are returned when empty for re-filling.