Our position
Sustainability and What We Will Claim
There is no certification mark on this website. No recycled percentage, no breakdown timescale, no comparison against conventional film. That is a deliberate position rather than an oversight, and this page explains it.
The short version: we were not supplied documentation to support those claims, and a claim we cannot evidence for your specific order is worth less to you than no claim at all — particularly in a category where advertising regulators across the markets we serve have taken a close interest in packaging language.
What follows is what we will do instead.
Turn this into a specification
Tell us what you ship and we will apply everything on this page to your order, in writing.
What we will not publish
Each of these is something a packaging supplier could easily assert. None of them was supplied to us with evidence, so none of them appears anywhere on this site.
Recycled content percentages
Content varies by film, by production batch and by market. A single figure on a web page could not be honoured for every order.
Certification marks
A mark is a statement that an assessment happened. We hold no documentation for one, so we do not display one.
Decomposition or breakdown periods
Any credible figure depends on named conditions and an assessment method. Without both, a timescale is a guess dressed as data.
Home or industrial compostability status
These are assessed against different criteria and a material may meet one and not the other. We were shown neither assessment.
Carbon footprint comparisons
A comparison requires a defined boundary and a method. We have not run one, so we do not cite one.
What we do instead
When you need to make an environmental claim, this is the process we run for your order.
You tell us what you need to be able to say
To a customer, on a pack, in a tender, or to a retailer with its own packaging policy.
We go to the supplier of the specific film
Not to a general datasheet. To the film that will actually be produced for your order.
We ask for the evidence
Feedstock type and proportion, assessment method, assessing body, and the document itself.
You see it before you commit
Including when the answer is that nothing is documented. That answer is information too.
It goes on the quotation
What is evidenced is written down, so what you were told and what you ordered are the same thing.
Where the real reductions are
None of these needs a certificate to defend.
Right-sizing is the largest lever most operations have. A parcel that fits uses less film, weighs less and takes less space on a vehicle, and unlike a material claim it can be measured in your own data within a month.
Reducing components is the second. Every insert, void filler, second bag and piece of tape is material that was manufactured and will be discarded. Removing one from a parcel that ships ten thousand times a year is a real reduction.
Specifying a returns strip is the third and it is often overlooked. A resealable mailer removes an entire second piece of packaging from every return, which in a category with fashion-level return rates is a substantial share of total material.
None of these is as marketable as a leaf symbol. All of them are defensible.
Reading a competitor’s claims
If you are comparing quotations, the environmental section is where the differences between suppliers are largest and least verifiable. Ask each one for the feedstock type, the proportion, the assessment method and the document, and see who can produce all four. A supplier who publishes a confident percentage and cannot evidence it has told you something useful about the rest of their quotation. The vocabulary to run that conversation is set out in the sustainable packaging terminology guide.
Questions about sustainability
Are your poly mailers eco-friendly?
That phrase has no defined meaning, so we do not use it. We can supply recycled-content, compostable-material and biodegradable-material films, and we will tell you exactly what the supplier of each can evidence for your order — including when the answer is nothing.
Why will you not just say your mailers are recyclable?
Because recyclability depends on what collection your customers can access, not on the material alone. Flexible film is generally not accepted in household kerbside collections in the markets we serve. Telling customers to recycle something they cannot recycle is worse than saying nothing.
Can you provide documentation for a tender or an audit?
We will provide whatever the supplier of the specific film holds, and we will be explicit about what is not covered. We will not produce a document that says more than the evidence supports.
What is the most effective change I can make?
Right-sizing, almost always. Shipping less air reduces material per parcel and often moves parcels into lower weight bands at the same time. It is measurable in your own data and needs no certification to defend.
Ask what can be evidenced
Tell us what you need to claim and where you sell. We will come back with what the available film supports, and with the documentation behind it.