Sustainability

Although living plants are the end-product, like all supply chains, the plant supply chain is not without faults. There is waste, plastics use and carbon emissions. There are many things that could be done in a more environmentally friendly manner. 

Here are some of the ways that Team Tumbleweed is minimizing our impact on the environment. 

We source readily available plants from trusted locally based growers and suppliers with appropriate procurement practices. We restrict our airfreight imports of plants to less common, higher value varieties to minimize our carbon footprint.

We love nice packaging as much as anyone but, with mountains of waste produced every day in our city, we know there needs to be a balance. From the wrapping of plants to the product labels we use (like the biodegradable labels on our Down to Earth. range) we make considered choices about packaging so that it’s protective and convenient but does not give rise to excessive waste.

When you buy a plant from us, we wrap the leaves with paper to protect them and place it in one of our recyclable paper bags. We also reuse supplier packaging including bubble wrap and cardboard boxes wherever possible to minimize waste.

We reuse our plastic plant pots until they can’t take it anymore and we give them away to customers for free (just ask next time you are in one of our stores). We use paper wrapping for more than 95% of our plants, though we still use some plastic wrapping for some large plants for which we are working on finding a better solution.

We support sustainable urban development by planting a tree every month through monthly donations to Singapore’s Garden City Fund. To know more about this initiative and to see how many trees we’ve planted, take a look at our Plant a tree pledge page in the footer below.