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News Release from: Howarth Timber | Subject: Ethical partnership scheme
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 September 2007
Howarth Timber joins ethical partnership
scheme
Howarth Timber Building and Supplies to supply only ethically sourced stone, as member of new Ethical Partnership scheme, encouraging greater social responsibility within the hard landscaping market.
Howarth Timber has been welcomed as a member of the Ethical Partnership scheme, which has been launched by Stonemarket, one of the UK's leading suppliers of high quality hard landscaping products Howarth Timber Group Product Manager Alan Smith says; "We are delighted to become a Stonemarket Ethical partner, as this contributes towards our commitment to offering environmentally-friendly and sustainable products"
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 23 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As people are becoming more aware of the origin of the products they are choosing, we feel it is important to help our customers understand how they can choose more ethically sourced building materials." As a Stonemarket Ethical Partner, Howarth Timber has committed to selling only ethically sourced natural stone paving at its 25 branches throughout the UK.
From now on, all natural stone paving stocked by Howarth Timber branches will have been sourced exclusively through ethical routes.
Stonemarket's Group are members of the Ethical Trading Initiative, an alliance of retailers, trade unions and NGO's working collectively to tackle the questions posed by ethical trade.
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Part of the code is the elimination of child labour and therefore all of Stonemarket's supply chain is independently audited to ensure that no child labour exists.
Howarth Timber is a major customer of Stonemarket and are totally committed to the Ethical Partnership programme.
Consequently, Howarth Timber will only stock Stonemarket imported natural stone in all of its branches.
Alan Smith continues; "In a market in which the vast majority of stone sets bought in the open market are made by children, there's no point in us being a 'little bit ethical'".
"By buying our Stonemarket products you can be totally confident that the product is ethically sourced and that no child labour has been used in the production of the stone".
Products endorsed by the Stonemarket Ethical Partnership scheme offer valuable reassurance for customers that they are not buying from local, unaccredited importers who are often selling cheap natural stone, which is made in illegal quarries and associated with many kinds of human rights abuses.
Says Tom Poole Managing Director of Stonemarket , "The Ethical Partnership programme is the most powerful way of promoting a responsible supply chain for natural stone products coming into the country from India, China and other developing countries".
"Our group's funding of local NGO's in Rajasthan is also currently helping rural migrant workers involved in the production of sandstone, to achieve improved working conditions.".
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