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For environmentally friendly packaging (recycled alu tubes) to be viable at our small scale we need to produce a LOT more. In the meantime we try to improve our
by c1sc0 5y ago
For environmentally friendly packaging (recycled alu tubes) to be viable at our small scale we need to produce a LOT more. In the meantime we try to improve our packaging and offset some of the damage we do by planting one tree per product sold, which is roughly a 20-30% hit on our margins. Personally I think it’s impossible to be sustainable. Working towards reaching sustainability IS possible. So that’s what we do.
- nikanj 5y agoHow about wood / bamboo?
- c1sc0 5y agoWe looked into bio plastics and bamboo for both the tube and closing cap. It’s easy enough to find bamboo-based biodegradable tubes but the closing cap is pretty much always still normal plastic. Biodegradable plastic also has its controversies: it won’t degrade in clean ways outside of commercial composting facilities. There’s also a bamboo-based plastic controversy around toxicity of the product in e.g. bamboo-plastic cups.