The Organic Collective is a small locally owned business operating in the Fremantle area delivering fresh Certified Organic fruit and vegetables. For the past 7 years The Organic Collective has been dedicated to the increased growing and distribution of great tasting healthy fresh local organic foods and products.

At The Organic Collective we try our best to make every aspect of the box scheme service environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

Following are some of the things we have implemented to achieve this:

- All our boxes for packing the fruit and vegetables in are recycled from a large food distributor. We then re-use the boxes for deliveries and re-collect them to use again. This reduces waste and recycles resources.

- We keep unnecessary packaging, storage and transportation to a minimum.

- We subscribe to 100% Natural Power/Green Power. This is a great way for businesses and people to show support for sustainable energy production to the large energy providers. GreenPower is a national accreditation program that sets stringent environmental and reporting standards for renewable electricity products offered by energy suppliers to households and businesses across Australia. GreenPower aims to increase Australia’s capacity to produce environmentally friendly renewable electricity by driving demand for alternative energy generation. 
We encourage everyone to use GreenPower, go to www.greenpower.gov.au to find information and your provider.

- Our delivery vehicles are Carbon Neutral. We subscribe to the Carbon Neutral program of Men of The Trees, were we pay a sum of money that equates to the amount of trees that need to be planted to offset our delivery vehicles carbon omission on a yearly basis. Going carbon neutral is an easy way that we can all contribute to a solution by taking responsibility for the carbon dioxide emissions we create with our cars, airplanes and energy use.

- One of our delivery vans run on recycled vegetable oil and tallow also known as biodesiel. The fuel is souced from used cooking oil from the service industry and refined to run a deisel engine.

- We sort and recycled what ever waste we produce to limit the amount that ends up in land fill.

- All our green waste fruit and vegetable scraps are taken to Murdoch University Environmental Technology Center ( E.T.C ) to be used is composting and worm farm displays and demonstration models.

- Our priority is to buy locally grown organic food to cut down on the environmental damage of long distance food transport. This also supports the local economy as well as ensuring the freshness.

- We support many grass root environmental projects such as City Farm, Activate Tree Planting, Earthdance Western Australia. Our support for these project and others has ranged from offering in kind administration support, donations or supplying cost price organic food for fund raising.

- Weekly we produce a newsletter educating people about topical issues such as organics, Genetic Modification, local environmental issues, living green as well as information about up and coming environmental related events along with seasonal recipes to help people re adjust to seasonal fruit and vegetable eating.

- We subscribe to support the seedsaver network. The Seed Savers' Network was founded in 1986 to preserve the diversity of our cultural plants through a seed exchange and seed bank.

- At the Organic Collective we always print on 100% recycled paper

- Our business cards use vegetable based inks. From the Environmental Printing Company
Ph: 9271 1569, greenprinting@iinet.net.au, web www.environmentalprintingco.com

As you can see our commitment to the environment and the community is real 'we walk our talk'. We hope as The Organic Collective grows so does our partnerships with these organisations that are very important within our community, as we look for more sustainable ways of living.