Environmental concerns are important within the timber consumption and purchasing at Yandles. It is considered that with best practices observed, timber and wood products are the ultimate sustainable and recyclable materials, requiring low energy consumption to process and are thermally efficient in use whilst having a high carbon retention. At Yandles we go to great lengths to verify that our suppliers our meeting the very highest environmental standards, whilst ensuring minimum waste within our production. We ensure all the timber we purchase is legally and sustainably obtained from correctly managed forests in line with British law and aim to ensure it is from PEFC or FSC sources where possible. Yandles is fully committed to playing their part in eradicating illegal logging and poor forest management as set out in the United Kingdom Timber Regulations (UKTR) which came into effect in 2021. Whilst we are not able to run the chain of custody scheme to the nature of our self selection centre making auditing impossible, we work hard to ensure the timber is from the correct schemes. We have long term relationships with main suppliers ensuring quality, reliability and trust in the timber and its source. We carry out due-diligence on all new suppliers and ensure the timber they supply us comes from a recognised schemes. In our manufacturing processes, in both the sawmill and the joinery shop the we aim not to waste anything from the processes we go through. From the finished product that reaches the end user to the production off cuts that go for sell in our self selection centre. The sawdust we collect is used by local farmers as bedding and the first cuts of the logs and the unusable faults in the timber are sold as parcels for a myriad of uses from natural fences to pallets to small turned light pulls. Any cardboard and packaging materials we receive are reused for our mail order business and the rubbish we produce that we cannot re use is sent to a recycling centre. Our electricity contract is from a renewable energy supplier and the company vehicles are moving towards electric as the leases expire and the vehicles are replaced.