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Getting Started with Sustainable Packaging
The first steps into your sustainable packaging journey can be daunting. There are many different options to choose from: Compostable, recycled, recyclable, biodegradable... Which one is right? Even once you’ve begun your journey, you may need help deciding where to go next. Either way, the path isn’t always clear! The EPA estimates that packaging makes up around [...]
How Composting Works
Composting creates ideal conditions for the decomposition process that happens everywhere in nature. It’s nature’s recycling! There are several different methods for composting, but at its most basic: Organic materials are introduced to microorganisms, moisture, and oxygen. These materials are then broken down into their simplest parts - creating a nutrient-rich end product that benefits soil [...]
Types of Composting
What do you think about when you hear “composting?” Perhaps you’ve got a compost bin at home, or are signed up for compost collection. If not, you might envision a big pile of decomposing leaves or a farm. Composting has been around for a long time, there are even references that show ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians knew about compost! [...]
The Power of Soil Regeneration
“A teaspoon of soil can contain more organisms than there are humans living on Earth.” - Soil degradation: the problems and how to fix them, Natural History Museum UK Healthy soil provides us with essential food, nutrients, and resources. It supports ecosystems and affects all living things. Soil depletion occurs when soil quality and health declines. If the conditions [...]
Labeling Compostable Products and Packaging
Compostable products, particularly bioplastics, have advanced tremendously in recent years. These innovations have made it very easy for brands to shift from conventional plastic to compostable packaging without impact to the function or appearance of the packaging. New compostable solutions often mimic non-compostable alternatives so well that they actually look, function, and perform similarly to their [...]
Is Composting Better Than Landfill?
Landfills are used to collect waste. They are intended to reduce the amount of waste that makes it into the environment and keep it contained. When full, they are covered with a plastic or clay lining and topped with soil, storing trash underground. Composting on the other hand takes organic materials and breaks them down efficiently. [...]
Compostable Packaging Supports Healthy Soil
The impact of your compostable packaging goes so much further than waste reduction alone. Compostable packaging supports composters, soil health, and the environment as a whole. “Caring for the Earth is just as important as caring for our bodies.” -Sage and Cedar Organics via Instagram A sustainable product is not so sustainable if it comes wrapped in layers [...]
Want to Tell the World?
Are your customers aware of the incredible positive impact of your compostable packaging? Composting Reduces Emissions by diverting organic waste away from landfills. Composting Transforms Organic Waste into a product that enriches the soil. Compost Enriches the Soil allowing it to support flourishing plants, trees, and crops. Composting Reduces Climate Change. Healthy plants and soil sequester more carbon from the atmosphere. We've made some [...]
Re-Enriching the Soil
Carbon Sequestration Series: Part 1: What is Carbon Sequestration? Part 2: Re-Enriching the Soil While we’ve come a long way in developing methods for carbon sequestration, biological carbon sequestration makes the most sense. There’s no need to over-engineer solutions when the solution has been here the whole time. "Although the direct greenhouse gases [carbon dioxide] CO2, [methane] CH4, and [nitrous oxide] N2O [...]
What is Carbon Sequestration?
Carbon Sequestration Series: Part 1: What is Carbon Sequestration? Part 2: Re-Enriching the Soil Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing and storing carbon in order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Trees and plants naturally sequester carbon via photosynthesis. Carbon is the basic building block of all organic matter! Carbon dioxide is a carbon compound [...]
