The time period eco-friendly packaging merely mustn’t exist. The one eco-friendly packaging is not any packaging in any respect. Pull an apple from a tree and take a candy, crunchy chew—that is eco-friendly packaging. 

As a model promoting packaged items to shoppers, our purpose is to not be eco-dishonest or eco-ignorant. Our accountability is to make use of the least dangerous packaging we will for each product, and to reassess the choices yearly we’re in enterprise. I’ve researched packaging virtually as a lot as I studied in medical faculty, and I can inform you the reply is never so simple as it appears! Particularly relating to pure merchandise, the packaging generally performs a task in defending or preserving the product. Some packaging is heavier to ship, which has a footprint of its personal. Some packaging is marketed as inexperienced, however entails horrible labor circumstances abroad. It’s a really tough panorama to navigate, even for the consultants.

How Do You Select Packaging For Your Model?

Once we select packaging at Osmia, we sit down and obsess about our choices from each angle, after which make the perfect determination we will at that second in time. It not often looks like an ideal determination, as a result of it’s nonetheless packaging! However we wish you to know that we’ve bought our eye on the ball, and that we’re at all times attempting to enhance issues. We count on our packaging to evolve as we develop, and hope there shall be higher choices as environmental consciousness drives the packaging trade to innovate with new supplies and concepts. Right here’s the place issues stand in 2023.

What environmentally-considerate packaging do you employ?

Paper cartons

Most of our merchandise are in printed paper containers to maintain them protected and protected throughout transport. The paper is FSC-certified, and the inks used for printing are UV inks, which don’t include solvents or launch VOCs. All containers are recyclable. 

Glass bottles and jars

Lots of our merchandise, like our physique oils and physique mousses, are available glass, which is totally recyclable in most locations. (They have to be rinsed fully clear in most locations as effectively!) Pumps, caps, dip tubes, and lids usually are not recyclable. Our Purely Calm Gel Toner and Purely Easy Face Cream bottles have to be separated from the internal liner with the intention to be recycled (but it surely solely takes about 5 seconds!), and the liner and cap usually are not recyclable. 

Plastic tubes/bottles

Our lip balm tubes are plastic and recyclable, and manufactured from a cloth known as Eco Good, which degrades dramatically extra rapidly than common plastic. Our hand lotions and Purely Mild Mud Cleanser are available tubes made with 50% post-consumer recycled materials. 

Canvas baggage

Our canvas baggage are all made with natural cotton, GOTS-certified, and Truthful Commerce.

Delivery supplies

Our transport containers and paper transport supplies are all made with recycled content material and are recyclable. Our transport labels are FSC-certified and/or recycled. We repurpose all bubble wrap and plastic transport supplies that come from our suppliers in packing our wholesale orders.

Moreover, we use all recycled printer paper at our workplaces, and we recycle and compost all the pieces we will in our day-to-day operations. And, after all, we’ve planted a tree for each single order since Earth Day 2018—over 120,000 bushes and counting!

In brief, we CARE! A part of our mission is to go away a lighter footprint on the planet, and that applies to our merchandise, our packaging, and our conduct. Going ahead, we’ll preserve this publish up to date every year about the place our packaging sits, so you realize what’s modified and why. Within the meantime, you may assist by taking the time to get rid of your Osmia packaging correctly, recycling all the pieces that may be recycled, even the paper crinkles in your Osmia packages—birds love to make use of them of their nests!

With love and recycled content material,