January 9th, 2012

All around the world

At last, we’ve done it! We have now sent orders to every continent on the planet. As recycling bins tend to be hollow bits of metal or plastic they don’t lend themselves to being shipped around the world except when they are ordered in bulk and we can nest them. We sadly often find ourselves having to say to many potential clients that it’s worth neither the financial nor environmental cost of shipping a product designed to save waste around to the other side of the world. With large orders however when we can nest product and make the most of pallet or container space we can often get product long distances for the same net price as customers have to pay gross within the EU.

Bizarrely Antarctica, which many would think of the most difficult continent to get to, was one of our first when the British Antarctic Survey placed an order for bins to kit out their Bird Island base off South Georgia.

As a contrast to this, last month we sent an order to Lagos - one of the largest populated cities in the world.

We regularly get orders from Europe and the Middle East and have had some very satisfying orders from the Far East including one where we sent product from Taiwan, the Republic of China to the People’s Republic of China and one where we sent several hundred bins to one of Americas “too big to fail” banks.

Australisia was the last continent we managed to put on our list and it was for one of the most modest products that we sell. One of our old domestic clients emigrated to Queensland and when of the catches on the bin broke Selina got in touch and ordered a replacement part which were delighted to be able to post out to her.