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 customers, our objective is to not be eco-dishonest or eco-ignorant. Our accountability is to make use of the least dangerous packaging we are able to 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 college, and I can inform you the reply isn’t so simple as it appears! Particularly in terms of pure merchandise, the packaging generally performs a job 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?

After we select packaging at Osmia, we sit down and obsess about our choices from each angle, after which make the very best resolution we are able to at that second in time. It not often appears like an ideal resolution, as a result of it’s nonetheless packaging! However we would like you to know that we’ve bought our eye on the ball, and that we’re at all times making an attempt to enhance issues. We count on our packaging to evolve as we develop, and hope there can 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 secure throughout delivery. 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 should be rinsed utterly clear in most locations as properly!) Pumps, caps, dip tubes, and lids will not be recyclable. Our Purely Calm Gel Toner and Purely Easy Face Cream bottles should be separated from the internal liner to be able to be recycled (however it solely takes about 5 seconds!), and the liner and cap will not be recyclable. 

Plastic tubes/bottles

Our lip balm tubes are plastic and recyclable, and manufactured from a cloth known as Eco Sensible, 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.

Transport supplies

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

Moreover, we use all recycled printer paper at our places of work, and we recycle and compost every little thing we are able to 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 timber and counting!

Briefly, we CARE! A part of our mission is to depart a lighter footprint on the planet, and that applies to our merchandise, our packaging, and our conduct. Going ahead, we’ll preserve this put up up to date every year about the place our packaging sits, so you realize what’s modified and why. Within the meantime, you possibly can assist by taking the time to get rid of your Osmia packaging correctly, recycling every little thing 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,