It's not easy being green. Living a green life at home and at work is something we should all work towards. At Rapunzel's we do our best to try and conserve energy and eliminate waste. Of course I'm not suggesting that we have a compost section amongst our jean display. (because we don't - that would be silly!)
I've compiled a list of the things that Rapunzel's Closet and ShopRapunzels.com currently does to be more GREEN.
1. We use GREEN shipping materials for our web customers and encourage them to recycle the packaging materials.
This information is on our website:
Rapunzel's ships in Environmentally Friendly Packing Materials! Our shipping boxes are made from 30-100% recycled content and our white poly-mailers are made of up to 30% post-consumer content. We always try to correctly match the size of your box to the size of your order. The less weight we ship, the less energy will be needed to ship it. Please be sure to recycle all your packing materials and together we can make the world a greener place!
2. We offer our storefront clients a paper shopping bag alternative. We have a reusable Rapunzel's Closet shopping bag that our clients love and we try to encourage them to bring them back each time we shop. Now I can't say that always happens - but I can say that I see our reusable Rapunzel's Closet bags out and about around town.
3. Unfortunately in the state of Florida it's suggested that we don't consume tap water. (This of course is an issue on its own.) But since we try not to drink the tap water, we have a water club in our web office to try and eliminate excessive water bottle usage.
4. We have the lights in our stores windows on timers so that they aren't burning all night long when the majority of our customers are sleeping not window shopping.
5. We TRY to be a paperless office - we have efaxes set up between all of our locations so that we can fax and email documents as opposed to making multiple hard copies and distributing them. We don't print out the hundreds of emails we each receive daily. We receive and pay most of our bills online so that we can eliminate checks, stamps, envelopes and even mail carrier fuel if you want to look at the truly extreme affect snail mail bill paying has on the environment.
6. We recycle paper and other items that we do have to use on a regular basis. We've set up bins near our registers and in our offices for recyclable materials. Because our town officials won't actually allow us to be part of the town pick-up program, (our alley way apparently doesn't fit the aesthetic criteria for the recycling bins) we actually have an employee who donates her time to take the recycling to the dump site.
Environmentalists say that every little bit helps. While we can always do more things that are green, I think we're off to a good start as a company and a team. If you have any suggestions about how Rapunzel's Closet and ShopRapunzels.com can continue to be more green please feel free to share them with us! We look forward to your comments.
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