Environmental Policy

Concerns about impacts such as global climate change mean that ensuring the efficient use of energy and resources is paramount.

Toyday Traditional & Classic Toys is commited to reducing the environmental impact by focusing on where our toys are manufactured, ensuring that they are not 'excessively packaged' and by the use of effective recycling.  

Packaging

All boxes that come in to us are either re-used or flattened and recycled. Other packing materials such as bubble wrap, styrofoam chips and plastic bags are all re-used when packing orders to contribute towards a positive environmental impact.

When packing orders we use recycled packaging materials wherever possible.

Delivery

We use Royal Mails existing delivery network to distribute 95% of our orders to help save unnecessary mileage.

Imported Toys

When sourcing and purchasing our traditional toys, one of the primary influencing factors is where the toys are manufactured, and we try to avoid importing toys from outside Europe, and prefer to source toys from as close to home as possible wherever this is practical and therefore reducing the distance travelled and keeping carbon emissions to a minimum.

Sustainable Wooden Toys

We supply wooden toys that are made using wood from sustainable forests.

Our Cause range of high quality wooden toys are environmentally friendly wooden toys. They are made from sustainable forests and painted with a safe non toxic paint and varnish.

At least 50% of the profits from Cause childrens toys is invested in building schools in third world countries. These wooden toys help educate children who wouldn't otherwise be able to go to school.

Schools have already been built in Vietnam, Peru, Columbia and two in Mali.  A sixth school is under construction this year. Up to date information can be found at the cause website.

A quote from one of our primary manufacturers

We live and work in Schleswig-Holstein, the most northerly state in Germany. Every year we plant a new tree for every new born child here. Last year once again we paid for 25,000 young beech and sycamore trees for a new state forest near Bad Segeberg. They are growing there and forming a small new forest for future generations.

Whoever takes something from the earth, must also give it something back! Our commitment to forestry is long term and will continue, even though attempts have been made recently in politics to privatise the state forests.