Green Fulfilment
Green fulfilment means running the storage, packing and shipping of your orders in a way that reduces their environmental impact. At Storeship, that comes down to specific, practical things we can point to: less plastic in packaging, reusing and recycling the materials that pass through our warehouse, and consolidating collections so couriers make fewer journeys. We would rather show you exactly what we do than make broad green claims we cannot back up.
It also comes with no green surcharge. Storeship runs on a pay-as-you-go model with no account fees and no minimum order or stock requirements, so choosing a lower-impact provider does not mean paying more or committing to volumes you cannot yet guarantee. Pick and pack starts from £0.50 per order and shipping from 75p. If you want the numbers for your own store, you can get a free quote in a couple of minutes.
What green fulfilment actually means
Green fulfilment, sometimes called sustainable fulfilment or eco-friendly fulfilment, is not a single feature. It is the sum of several operational choices across the parts of fulfilment that carry an environmental cost: the packaging an order ships in, what happens to the cardboard and pallets a warehouse takes in, how many separate courier journeys those orders generate, and how the warehouse itself is run.
This matters because a lot of green language in this industry is vague. A provider can call itself eco-friendly without ever saying what that means in practice. The sections below set out what Storeship actually does, and further down this page we cover how to tell a genuine claim from a hollow one. If you are new to outsourcing fulfilment, it helps to understand how third-party logistics (3PL) works before deciding who to use.
How Storeship lowers the impact of your fulfilment
Here is what that looks like day to day. Where a figure would help but we cannot yet verify it, we have flagged it rather than guess.
Packaging that uses less plastic
We keep plastic in outbound packaging to a minimum, with paper-based packing bags as well as non-plastic mailing sacks.
Reusing and recycling materials
A working warehouse takes in a lot of cardboard and a lot of pallets. Most of it can have a second life rather than going straight to waste:
- Boxes: intact boxes received into the warehouse are reused to send orders back out.
- Cardboard: boxes that are not reusable are shredded and used as protective void fill in larger consignments.
- Pallets: pallets are reused for outbound goods, sent for recycling, or passed to local people who repurpose them.
Fewer courier journeys through consolidation
Using a fulfilment centre changes the shape of how your orders are collected. Instead of a courier calling at many separate premises to pick up parcels, orders are consolidated at a single hub and collected together. For a seller shipping from home or a small unit, that difference is easy to overlook; across a full customer base it removes a meaningful number of individual collection journeys.
We supply CO2 data and figures for every order we ship, including mileage, CO2 used, and full environmental data.
Energy and warehouse operations
Our warehouses use LED lighting and have recycling areas for sustainability.
Who green fulfilment matters most to
Packaging and delivery impact matter more to some sellers than others, depending on who they sell to and what's being asked of them:
- D2C brands with sustainability-conscious customers: shoppers who factor packaging and delivery impact into where they buy.
- Sellers responding to retailer or marketplace sustainability questionnaires: brands are increasingly asked to answer these before being onboarded as a supplier.
- EU sellers wanting to cut unnecessary transport as well as cost: fulfilling from our Onil, Spain warehouse means EU orders avoid an extra cross-border leg, alongside the customs duty this saves under the EU's July 2026 rules.
- Brands already reducing their footprint elsewhere: for whom a fulfilment partner adding unnecessary packaging or courier journeys would undo that work elsewhere in the business
Why ecommerce sellers choose Storeship
Being specific about our green practices serves the same purpose as everything else we do: you should be able to verify what we tell you. This is the same operational discipline that shows up across the rest of what we do, not a separate standard we apply only to sustainability claims:
- Registered and compliant: Storeship is registered under HMRC's Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme (FHDDS number XZFH00000100040), which you can confirm on the HMRC register.
- Established and proven at scale: trading since 2009, Storeship currently processes stock for over 700 UK and international ecommerce sellers, having handled more than 944,000 orders across 248 countries served.
- Accurate dispatch: every order goes through a 3-stage scan, at pick, at pack, and a check weigh, with photographic evidence of the packed parcel. 98% of orders received by 3pm are picked, packed and shipped the same day.
- Real support: a dedicated account manager, rather than a general support queue.
- Connected: integrations with Amazon, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, TikTok Shop and more than a hundred other platforms and marketplaces via our free fulfilment software.
- UK and EU coverage: our own warehouses in Nottingham, UK and Onil, Spain, so EU orders can ship locally rather than crossing the border parcel by parcel, cutting out a long-haul leg for every EU order rather than just its import cost.
That combination, an established track record, independently checkable compliance, and pricing with no hidden costs, is what makes it straightforward to trust the green claims on this page: they are held to the same standard as everything else we tell customers. You can read more about the company on our About Storeship page.
Green fulfilment across your platforms and sector
The same lower-impact practices apply whatever you sell and wherever you sell it. Storeship's software connects to Amazon, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, BigCommerce, TikTok Shop and more, so orders from every channel move through the same reduced-plastic packaging and consolidated collections, whichever platform they arrive from.
Packaging choices tend to matter most in a handful of sectors, since the product itself often drives how much material an order needs. If that's a particular focus for you, our sector pages go into more detail on how fulfilment works for health and beauty, cosmetics, supplements, clothing and subscription box sellers.
Frequently asked questions
Does green fulfilment cost more with Storeship?
No. The same pay-as-you-go pricing applies either way, with no account fees and no minimum order or stock requirements. Lower-impact fulfilment is how we operate, not a paid add-on.
What packaging does Storeship use?
We use paper-based products as well as non-plastic mailing bags.
How does using a fulfilment centre reduce delivery emissions?
Orders are collected together from one hub, instead of couriers calling at many separate locations, which cuts the number of individual collection journeys.
Can I use my own branded or recyclable packaging?
We work with customers to supply their own branded and environmentally friendly packaging.
What happens to the packaging and pallets you receive?
Intact boxes are reused, other cardboard is shredded for protective void fill, and pallets are reused, recycled, or passed to local people who repurpose them.
Get a green fulfilment quote
If you are weighing up a lower-impact fulfilment partner, the quickest way to see whether Storeship fits is to get the numbers for your own store. Sign-up takes a couple of minutes, there is no minimum commitment, and you get a dedicated account manager from the start. Request a free green fulfilment quote, or read more about our ecommerce fulfilment services first, or compare our full 3PL fulfilment services.
