The Environment

Manufacturing only from sustainable timber

 Littlethorpe is a FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified company.

 Our hardwood is imported directly from well managed forests, which must adhere to strict rules and guide lines. We are audited regularly to ensure compliance with the stringent regulations set by the FSC, making sure the origin of all our hardwood is totally accountable.

 By buying hardwood shelters from an FSC accredited organisation, you are helping to preserve the future of the world’s forests by making sure the forests are properly maintained. Manufacturing steel or aluminium shelters requires the use of vast amounts of energy; even recycling metal requires almost as much power as new smelting. Mining and smelting can cause environmental damage, timber absorbs carbon as it grows, and it looks pretty good too.

 Products made from timber have a lower carbon footprint than similar products made from metal.

 It is our intention to keep the naturally absorbed carbon that is in the timber we buy locked into the timber for as long as possible by producing products that have a very long life span, to assist in this we back our products up with a maintenance plan and after care.

 The decorative stains we use are, for environmental reasons, all water based.

 Littlethorpe, as an environmentally aware company  has a policy of reducing waste as far as possible, most waste that is unavoidably produced is converted to a secondary use and so becomes a reusable bi-product.

 We are replacing our light bulbs with low energy ones.

 We try and optimise our delivery vehicles to avoid running half empty Lorries or making unnecessary journeys.  We prefer to see local contractors used for ground works to avoid unnecessary mileage. We shut our computers down at night; leaving electrical goods on standby wastes energy.