Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. Country & Town House has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

Country & Town House Sustainability Profile

Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. Country & Town House has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

What do our labels mean?

Country & Town House presents itself as an inclusive authority on sustainable living through trusted editorial. Its sustainability position centres on educating readers to buy less and buy better, using reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle as a framework across shopping, travel, beauty, food and interiors. The publication says it aims to minimise vague sustainability language, check facts carefully, and direct readers to brand sustainability pages where relevant. It also states that at least 20 percent of its content output is focused on sustainability, alongside a separate commitment to diversity in its editorial output.

About Country & Town House

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
United Kingdom

Country & Town House Sustainability Actions

Recycling magazine issues

Ideally, you would pass it on the magazine to a friend or a community place which might enjoy it (doctor or dentist surgery, community centre etc), but you can also rest assured that your issue can be recycled in its entirety*. *Caveat: on the rare occasion magazine features a gatefold advertisement (where the cover or an inside page opens to reveal an additional page that folds out), it uses laminate which renders the cover paper on those issues unrecyclable, so we suggest removing the cover and recycling the rest.

Compostable magazine bags

When two or more copies of the magazines come bagged together, the bagging material is made entirely from 100 per cent compostable material sourced from potato starch. It can be disposed of in a compost heap, your garden waste bin or your food waste bin – why not use it as a liner? Please do NOT put it in your recycling bin.

Recycled packaging waste

All packaging waste, inc. paper, plastic, metal and pallet waste is recycled at Gibbons. Anything they cannot recycle themselves is sent to Veolia, a waste management scheme who will recycle what they can and then burn the rest turning it into energy.

Certified paper materials

The majority of our paper used in the magazines is UPM Star Gloss, which is sustainably sourced and manufactured, with EU Ecolabel certification and FSC® and PEFC™ chain of custody certification. The cover paper uses Condat Gloss which is FSC® certified (the mark of responsible forestry).

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Buy less, buy better

‘Buy less, buy better’ is baked into our approach to shopping, all with the four ‘R’s’ of reduce, reuse, repurpose and then recycle. With the latest styles hitting and falling off the shelves in record time, it becomes easy to get swept away by trends and fall into waste-led, fast fashion practices.

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Country & Town House Sustainability Commitments

2030

Track 20% sustainability content

We have committed to measuring and tracking that at least 20 percent of our content output is focused on sustainability.

2030

Track 15% diversity content

We have committed to measuring and tracking that at least 15 percent of our content output is focused on diversity.

2022

Reduce gas and electricity use

The members’ club has set up further ambitious climate targets such as reducing gas usage by 10 percent and reducing electricity usage by 10 percent year on year to achieve net zero.