Protecting the environment and people
Fairtrade Max Havelaar certified plantations follow strict regulations
to protect the environment and groundwater,
as well as the use of fertilizers and sprays.
What does this Fairtrade label promise?
If you buy roses with the Max Havelaar Fairtrade label,
you have more than just a guarantee that compliance with
the stringent environmental and
groundwater regulations is being independently monitored.
Fairtrade Max Havelaar makes additional high demands on the plantations
it certifies in terms
of the handling and use of fertilizers and sprays.
The international Fairtrade standards for roses also include
environmental
criteria and prohibit the use of the most toxic pesticides.
Compliance is checked
Compliance with these rules is checked regularly.
External environmental experts confirm that Fairtrade-certified
plantations are
environmental leaders and have been proved to use less spray.
Water - also a topic
Apropos water: water consumption has been reduced by almost
half over the last 10 years by
switching to drip irrigation and landless farming.
The surplus irrigation water is often
purified in a closed cycle and used several times over.
The sewage, on the other hand,
is purified in natural treatment systems.
More topics about Fairtrade Max Havelaar
Fleurop & Fairtrade Max Havelaar - for more fairness
Learn here how you can help employees of the flower plantations overcome poverty and create better living conditions.
Helpful: premium for community projects
The Max Havelaar Fairtrade label includes a premium for community projects such as fresh water wells, schools and more.
Protecting the environment and people
Fairtrade Max Havelaar certified plantations follow strict regulations to protect the environment and groundwater, as well as the use of fertilizers and sprays.
Who is Max Havelaar?
In a novel, Max Havelaar is a colonial official who exposes serious misconducts by his superiors and challenges the entire colonial system.
Find out which farm your rose comes from
Via code, you can trace every Fleurop rose back to the producing rose farm and find out what it does with the Fairtrade premium.
More ecological than Swiss greenhouse roses
Find out why roses imported from South America or Kenya can also make sense from an ecological point of view.