As I mentioned on my About page, I want to do my best to not trash our poor planet! I'm always looking into more ways I can make my products and packaging more environmentally friendly.
Here is a list of my current efforts ~
⚡ I am no longer using plant based bio plastic mailers, I had to switch to paper bags as all my mailers degraded and fell to bits! The new paper bags are fully recycleable and to be honest I think they protect your orders better in the post.
⚡ T-shirts are screen printed with high quality environmentally friendly water based ink, by a small UK based business. You wouldn't know the difference from regular plastisol screen prints and they are free of Formaldehyde, Apeo, PVC's and Heavy Metals.
⚡ Padded envelopes are made with uncoated corrugated paper and are 100% recyclable.
⚡ My postage stickers are made from cornstarch, and my 'vinyl' stickers are made from wood pulp which won't break down into harmful microplastics. Both are 100% compostable and have a thinner backing than normal stickers to help lower environmental impact.
⚡ Any clear baggies I use are plant based biofilm which are fully biodegradable and compostable which means that they break down to CO2, H20 and biomass which can then be reused in the eco system to make new plants.
⚡ Fragile items are wrapped in paper honeycomb packing paper, fully recyclable.
⚡ All packaging made in the UK.
These efforts are my responsibility as a business to keep evolving, and as a result my prices have had to come up a bit. I don't feel I can (or would want to) push my prices up any more, and at the current volume of sales unfortunately I am stuck with using Gildan shirts, which ethically speaking are not the best but arguably not the worst. I hope to be able to afford to switch to a more sustainable brand one day.