Our Packaging Promise
We care greatly about our beautiful planet and want our packaging to reflect this. You won’t get loads of unnecessary packaging in your order and you won’t get unnecessary decorative faff either, but we will still try and present your order to you in a nice, pretty way! Our packaging is all recycled, upcycled or eco-friendly! Plus, it will be vegan – no animal needs to suffer to provide packaging!
We all need to do our bit to cut down on waste and plastic and have a duty to keep the Earth as safe as possible for future-generations. Common sense packaging is a step in the right direction. If there is an alternative to plastic there is no excuse not to use it and, for example, although we all like to receive prettily-packaged things in the post, is it really necessary to have lots of excessive, paper, plastic etc to achieve this aim? Of course not.
Delivering Your Order Securely
Orders will often arrive in boxes that have been used before, bubblewrap that is reused, or re-used jiffy bags. If the bubblewrap has a greenish tinge to it, then it is biodegradable. Envelopes are recycled and most of the paper we wrap orders in will be recycled, FSC certified or completely tree-free.
Other packaging bits in the box will be what we have re-used from packaging sent to us. The tape we used to seal the boxes/packages is recycled paper that has a rubber resin adhesive on the back.
If your order is in a UKMail bag, this bag is recyclable, as it says so on the bag. Unfortunately, we have to put the piece of paper with your address on it in an unavoidable plastic document wallet supplied by the courier company.
Seed Packaging
Our seed packets have been made especially for us to our specification – 9 x 12 cm, stuck down both edges and made from 100% recycled paper – you won’t find these seed packets anywhere else! Inside the packet, the seeds are inside a glassine paper sachet – glassine is a very smooth, tracing-paper-like paper which has been rolled many times, it is perfect for storing seeds.
Unlike most seed companies, our seeds will not be packed into foil sachets (which also have a layer of plastic inside them which is melted to seal them closed)
The glue used to seal the seed packets is vegetable-based, so no nasty chemcials or fumes.
Please help the planet by further recycling any packaging your order comes in!
There is a lot of competition out there in the world of seeds but we hope that you will consider our products as being the best eco-friendly, planet-friendly and animal-friendly seed packets out there!