Recycle your packaging
A few helpful tips on how to recycle your packaging
You have unwrapped your lovely new item, and you are holding one of our beautifully tactile handcrafted wooden products. Now, what to do with the wrapping?
We firmly believe in only using necessary packaging and being kind to the environment. Therefore, you won’t find any plastic in our packaging, and everything we use is fully recyclable and biodegradable so you can pop it all into your paper recycling bin.
Whilst recycling is a positive way to help our massive waste issue. We have some tips that can save you a journey and reduce your impact on your local recycling centre while at the same time benefiting your home and garden.
Sustainable Packaging
We support sustainable practices and encourage others to make small changes to reduce our environmental impact. For example, we carefully considered how to package our products’ different shapes and sizes in the most eco form of packaging and opted to be plastic-free. Although not all of the packaging materials we currently buy will be made from recycled materials, we feel at this stage of our business they are the best choices available at this time. We continue to research suppliers for more friendly options whilst at a competitive price.
Upcycling in the home
The most obvious use for our boxes is to repurpose them by reusing them when
sending out your parcels. Ready-made storage systems, perfect for bits and bobs and this and that. They make cute trinket boxes, decorated with some decoupage or painted and bejewelled.
Children have great imaginations and will make all sorts of wonders with boxes, cards and paper. Who didn’t spend time playing with boxes as a youngster?
Flatpack some and store them away for rainy day fun and school projects. Making a Roman Villa for weekend homework is a common request from the kids’ teacher…
Pinterest is an excellent source full of fun and fascinating ideas to run with. I think the DIY cat scratching pad I came across is another good idea. Saving the end of your sofa or the wallpaper from all those rips… It’s on my to-do list as a project with my granddaughter.
Recycling in the garden
For me, as a keen but amateur gardener, my favourite place to make good use of our organic packaging is the garden. It is a perfect place for putting your discarded boxes and paper to good use, and even the burlap that our cutting boards are wrapped in can have a purpose.
Burlap makes great liners for window boxes, pots and hanging baskets.
It will retain moisture for longer in warmer weather. It is also very effective as a protective wrap for the root ball of new trees or shrubs when planting. The fabric will give some protection for your shrubs and plants from the frost, sun, and wind.
Drape it over your crops to keep those cheeky birds and animals from stealing your hard-earned harvest before you have managed to reap those benefits.
It doesn’t look as intrusive as that bright green plastic netting and there’s less chance of an unsuspecting bird getting tangled as well as losing out on some berries! Your compost heap will thank you. The carbon-rich paper and card, which when added in alternating layers with nitrogen-rich grass and cuttings from your garden over time, will make a super-rich compost elixir for your garden.
The shred is fine to add to the heap too!
Recycling cardboard in the garden
Laying down sheets of cardboard or paper on winter beds will act as a natural weed suppresser. It can be put around the base of fruit trees and bushes as a mulch. Mulch will enrich the soil, encouraging the worm population. In turn, these wonderful, but often overlooked little beauties, tunnel down enabling oxygen to get deep into the soil. This fuels the plant roots and the aerobic economy of the soil. Try sowing or planting directly through holes in the cardboard, they will retain more moisture after a good soak. An easy water-saving solution and limited weeding as the layer of cardboard will suppress those pesky unwanted additions in your beds. A lazy gardeners delight!
Last but by no means least, even the twine we use around our packaging can find plenty of uses in the garden in place of plastic twisty ties.
Let’s join the movement of Repurpose, Repair, Reduce & Recycle…
From all things wood and good.