Environmental impact
Reducing our impact on the environment
Protecting our beautiful environment has always been at the heart of the Witchbox ethos and our own personal witchcraft practices. Over the past few years, growing this loving Witchbox community, it has taught us so much about what more we could be doing to protect our precious environment.
Our Packaging
Witchbox has always strived to include as little plastic as possible in our boxes, but we have had to use some plastic to keep herbs or teas fresh. We are working with a supplier who can provide us with biodegradable plastic bags. These bags will biodegrade within a matter of months rather than years or centuries. We will advise when we start to use these bags. We do hope that any packaging items we supply can be used over and over again.
Another change we have made to our boxes' packaging is the use of boxes made from 50% recycled cardboard. When we do use box-filling materials, they are paper-based or fully biodegradable chips.
Additional packaging that is not biodegradable or recyclable, such as organza/ velvet bags, is included with the idea that these products will be kept and reused.
Whilst other companies spend a lot of money on custom boxes and packaging that ultimately goes into the bin (albeit we hope, a recycling bin), we have tried to keep this to a minimum, and instead we use standard products. For example, our black paper bags are made from 50% recycled materials, and our stickers are paper-based and again made from recycled materials - both of which can be placed into your cardboard/paper recycling bins.
We hope you see the value in us adopting this approach.
Our Products
Going forward, we also aim to have the majority of our products made from natural fibres such as wood, cork, cotton, ceramics and glass. As well as long-lasting materials such as metal that can be recycled indefinitely.
Our concern about the environment also applies to our suppliers when we can. For example, our print supplier is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and is a zero-landfill waste business with 95% being recycled and 5% being converted into fuel.
Although our products are suitable for vegetarians, we are not a 100% vegan box (yet).
As we practise traditional witchcraft, some products derived from animals are occasionally used, but if we can find an alternative to these animal-derived products, we always include them instead.
Our Promise
As a team at Witchbox, we also promise to continue our good environmental practices in the workplace. These include recycling as much as we can, repurposing items that cannot be, and creating as little waste as possible.
We realise that even with these steps, there is still more to be done to protect the environment around us. Putting in practices that protect our environment is an ever-evolving process that we promise to continue to improve and update you as we do.
Blessings x