Our New Packaging

We have teamed up with our old friend, Charlie Noon and the team at Grounded packaging to put together our new packaging. 

We’re committed to making decisions that reduce the overall impact of our products. This includes ensuring accessible ways for our customers to responsibly dispose of empty coffee bags. While compostable plastics sound like the perfect solution to the problem of single-use packaging, the infrastructure for such is still in its infancy. This means there are very few processing facilities in the UK equipped to handle compostable plastics, with next to none available to the public. We didn’t feel it was right to distribute packaging that would be so complicated and difficult to dispose of, increasing the risk of our bags ending up in general waste. 

HOW TO RECYCLE YOUR COFFEE BAGS

AT HOME

If you are brewing our coffee at home, simply collect the bags and dispose of them in the soft plastics collection points at many locations across the UK. You can find your nearest soft plastics recycling point here. Regular household collections are also on the way, which will make recycling even easier.

WHAT OUR COFFEE BAGS ARE MADE OF

Our coffee bags are made from over 70% recycled content, which can be recycled as a soft plastic in Recycling Stream 4. The new packaging is certified by the Global Recycling Standard (GRS), and is food safe (by EU food safety standards).

The percentage of recycled content is determined using a mass-balance approach, so we can accurately determine the amount of recycled content in the laminated structure. A mass balance approach is a chain of custody model that is used by industries to track materials through a complex value chain. In principle, it allows the inputs – such as feedstock produced from recycled plastic waste – to be allocated to the outputs from a production process.