Ahurei Gifts Partners With Tree Nation
Ahurei Gifts is proud to announce that we recently partnered with Tree-Nation with a commitment to plant a tree for every predominantly wood product we sell on our website including wood chopping boards, pizza boards, cheese boards, beer caddies, keepsake boxes, all wood gift boxes and all gift sets that come in wood boxes.
This means if you purchase any of the qualifying products on our website we'll plant a tree on your behalf.
Click here to learn more about Tree-Nation and our partnership...
Sustainability & Environmental Impact Policy
Over the past 12+ years and through our own research we have noticed how the excessive packaging of both products and shipped items is an issue for the environment and we feel that all businesses, including online retailers, need to do more to reduce their impact on the environment.
Living in such a beautiful unspoiled country inspires us to do more and we strive to have as minimal impact on the environment as possible. We have a sustainability policy in place and have made major in roads to reduce our packaging on products, shipping packaging, wastage and more. You will also find the vast majority of the products on our website will last for many years to come, if not a lifetime and are not cheap throw away items which we see all too often in the gift industry in New Zealand and overseas.
As part of our sustainability policy, we have significantly reduced the amount of packaging our products use and have taken the following steps to achieve this:
• We have eliminated a large amount of packaging from the manufacturing and product packing process. This means your package will not arrive with any polystyrene unless we are recycling and re-using polystyrene that has already come in to our business via 3rd party businesses.
• Any bubble wrapping used to protect your items whilst being shipped are also made from 30% recyclable materials and are 100% recyclable, or is bubble wrapping we are reusing from shipments that have come in to our business from 3rd parties. Any recyclable bubble wrapping will be green in colour and we encourage you to either reuse where possible or place in a soft plastic recycling bin once finished with, these are located at most supermarkets.
• We use NZ Post Courier Post service for all our deliveries and they also have a sustainability policy in place and take steps to minimise their impact on the environment.
• We actively source products from companies with sustainability as a focus i.e. all wood products are sources from manufacturers that only use sustainable forests and our Rimu wood products are handmade in New Zealand from reclaimed Rimu wood from the South Island.
• Our laser engraving machines do not use any chemicals unlike older or cheaper models available on the market.
• Any recyclable materials that come in to our business are either re-used or disposed of at recycling centers and not thrown in to a commercial general waste bins or landfill.
• Our company vehicles are the latest hybrid battery powered mid-size SUV's and we have seen a huge decrease in fuel consumption since we upgrade to hybrid vehicles.