ZERO WASTE PHILOSOPHY
We approach business with a mindset of creating as much beauty and value as possible, while also conserving and minimizing our use of resources. Some might call it a zero waste approach, though we think it’s just common sense. Operationally, we reuse and repurpose packing materials, we recycle all paper and worn out electronics, we compost the organics from our lunchroom and kitchen, we monitor our water and energy usage, and avoid plastics and toxic chemicals wherever possible.
We apply zero waste thinking to our production and design processes as well, which means we take the same approach when designing and creating new styles of awards and trophies. In fact, you’ll find some of Eclipse Awards’ exclusive eco-friendly green awards featured on pages 46-47 of Canada’s National Zero Waste Council’s Design Portfolio (pdf).
PROVIDING A PLASTIC FREE EXPERIENCE
In 2023, in support of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework, we declared war on plastics and are actively working towards eliminating all plastics from our awards and operations, to provide you with a plastic free experience. This means we won’t supply any plastic, acrylic or lucite awards and trophies. It also means we’ve removed all plastic bags and wrappers from our operations and we’re working with our suppliers to have them remove plastics as well. In the meantime, you may see some things like styrofoam packing peanuts in some orders because we do repurpose these when we receive them ourselves.
Though all of our awards and trophies are made with sustainability in mind, we have developed a few that are particularly eco-friendly which we identify as Green+++.
Our aim to become plastic free is a work in progress, and we’re not totally there yet, but we will get there. To learn more, visit our plastic-free blog post and follow us on social media @eclipseawards where we’ll share our progress!

REFORESTATION & REGENERATION = 2 TREES FOR EVERY AWARD
Since our sustainability journey began in 2008, we’ve continually focussed on minimizing our environmental footprint. In that time we’ve realized that beyond conservation, we also have a responsibility to regenerate, renew, and regrow our natural world.
So we committed to planting 2 trees for every plaque, trophy and award that we make, and we partnered with Eden Reforestation Projects to help us. We chose Eden because they not only propagate and plant trees, they also protect them through to maturity, and in the process create meaningful employment in rural and impoverished communities.
As of March 2023, we’ve planted over 57,000 mangrove trees and created nearly 600 days of employment! That’s nearly 6 hectares of mangrove forests, which will capture roughly 738 tonnes of CO2 per year, year after year, and there are more to come!
Each mangrove tree becomes part of a new forest, helping to regenerate the environment for years to come by cultivating biodiversity, sequestering carbon, providing food (agroforestry) and habitat, cleaning the air, preventing erosion and soil degradation, while also creating employment that helps strengthen families in rural communities.

Key points of our tree planting partnership with Eden Reforestation: