Our online baby Garbage is two months old! Now, if it were a human that would mean it would be hitting landmarks like making eye contact and laughing out loud while continuing to shit its pants. Fortunately, a business has different kinds of developmental landmarks, and we are enjoying our first sales and tallying our online followings even as we work out kinks and try to find our stride.
One of our main goals at Ecoquirky is to make our products as eco-friendly as possible. This means not only reducing the amount of new material we use, but also reusing materials before they would otherwise hit the landfill or the recycling plant. Reusing is an important part of the reduce/reuse/recycle triangle of sustainability, and sustainability is the big goal.
We've recently hit a beautiful landmark! We are proud to announce that our packaging is now made of 100% post-consumer reused material. We have invested in a low-tech, human-powered die cutter, which we use to punch out the cards that eventually become our jewelry cards. We use our own household paperboard waste (cereal boxes and other similar packaging) as the material to make the cards, and then recycle the leftover scraps. This process means that no new paper material is used to create our packaging, and we are proud of that!
the new die cutter
the new stamp
the new cards
The next step in making our jewelry cards is printing them. A simple rubber stamp turns our stacks of blank cards into lovely branded packaging. It takes a little more time to make each hand-cut, hand-stamped card, but think about this: we have removed all new materials, professional printing, shipping, and even electricity use from our packaging production process - that means that at the very least our packaging is carbon-neutral, and may very well be carbon-negative. And that is worth the extra work!
Love, Ecoquirky
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