Sustainability.
We provide the Nordic market with 120,000 articles, which gives us a great responsibility. We are committed to driving several sustainability issues to impact our suppliers, our own operations, and our customers. Our commitment does not end there – we are also involved in a range of projects that can contribute to making the world a little better.Renewable energy.
- Reduce our energy consumption
- Reduce our heat consumption
- Reduce our emissions from our company cars
- Constantly renew and environmentally improve our vehicle fleet
Good working conditions and healthy economic growth.
- All of our suppliers must sign our Code of Conduct
- Increase the proportion of visited suppliers in risk countries
- Increase customer satisfaction with our customers and never fall below 95% customer satisfaction
Responsible consumption.
- Increase the range of products in "A more sustainable choice"
- Increase knowledge of different raw materials
- All our products must have approved documentation
- All our personnel handling dangerous goods must be trained in ADR
Climate Action.
- Reduce unnecessary transports, they should not exceed 5%
- Maintain a high delivery reliability of at least 98%
- Reduce emissions from our trucks
- Environmentally improve our truck fleet
- We will reduce our water consumption
Did we achieve our goals in 2023?
In our Sustainability Report, we explain how we have identified which goals we should work with and report what we have worked with within each goal and how we have succeeded in achieving them.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2023Our Projects
Plastic Bank.
In 2021, Tingstad has become a partner of Plastic Bank and in 2022, we at Tingstad will launch new pump soaps, marked with Plastic Bank. This label means that for each bottle sold, we donate a sum that guarantees that 5 plastic bottles are picked up and prevented from ending up in the sea. Our hope and wish is that this will generate a good contribution to a better world environmentally and socially.
Giving Tuesday.
Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a counter-reaction to consumer-driven days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with a focus on encouraging thoughtfulness and generosity. This year, we at Tingstad are once again supporting the Rescue Mission’s Giving Tuesday movement with a call to action: donate 25 SEK via Swish, the equivalent of breakfast for a homeless person.
Beepartners.
Tingstad supports Beepartners. Beepartner's mission is to create greener cities for the future. In the spring of 2021, 30,000 bees moved into a hive on our roof. By being a sponsor of all these bees, we benefit our local environment at the same time as we develop our environmental work and hope to spread the knowledge about the bees' role as pollinators.
How important bees and pollinating insects are to us humans has probably not escaped anyone. Bees and other pollinators play a key role in biodiversity and food production. We have already harvested our first honey, which in itself is another good and wonderful advantage of being sponsors of bees.
The Fistula Hospital Foundation.
Tingstad supports the Fistula Foundation since 2009. The Fistula Hospital is located in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and is a hospital for women suffering from birth injuries, obstetric fistula. The fistula hospital foundation is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious foundation in large need of donations for their work.
Such a hospital is uncommon, even though many women are injured. Women as a group have a subordinate position and often suffer from malnutrition. Female genital mutilation is common and despite legislation girls often gets married and becomes pregnant very young. This leads to difficult births were the child dies and the mother suffers from genital injuries. Through operations and care the fistula hospital helps these women back to a normal life.
Doctor Catherine Hamilton, one of the founders, came to Ethiopia 1959 together with her husband Reginald to educated midwives. They were both deeply moved by the women who found their way to the hospital, but that no one could help, and decided 1974 to start their own hospital. Today they have five hospitals and one college for training. A couple of years ago Doctor Catherine Hamlin was awarded The Right Livelihood Award as a recognition for her accomplishment.
To read more about the foundation, visit www.fistulasjukhuset.org
Faktum.
Tingstad supports Faktum. Faktum was founded in 2001 in Gothenburg and is a newspaper sold out on the streets. Anyone who is homeless or facing social exclusion can start to sell Faktum. Vendors buy the magazine for 50 SEK, sell it for 100 SEK and keeps the difference. The work usually involves more than just making money on newspaper sales, it also means taking responsibility, planning the day, create routines and become part of a social context. Faktum is also working to create debate and public opinion on homelessness and social exclusion.
ISO since the 90s.
We have been ISO certified since the 1990s and in 2016 we were one of the first in the industry to be certified against the new environmental standards 14001: 2015 and 9001: 2015 for quality.
Our ISO work means that all our departments work with the environment and quality, that our staff are trained and that we work to constantly improve our work.
Read moreA good deal is about more than money.
By taking responsibility and doing good business that is not only good for us and our customers - but for the entire chain - we weave together sustainability with purchasing.
A basic requirement we place on all our suppliers is to maintain a high standard of ethical, social and environmental conditions in their operations. We also carry out booked visits, unbooked visits and audits at suppliers at risk lengths.
Read moreCorrugated pallets
We deliver on corrugated pallets. A wooden pallet weighs 10-12 kilos, while a corrugated pallet only weighs 2 kilos, something you will notice when you eventually handle the pallet. The lighter weight of the well pallet means that less fuel is used in the transport it to you as a customer, which in turn results in lower CO2 emissions. Our goal is for approximately 70% of our pallets to be corrugated pallets. The weight limit on the corrugated pallet is approximately 400 kg, which means that wooden pallets will still have to be used to a certain extent