Our veg boxes have been completely plastic free since 2019, whilst other, larger, companies still have some catching up to do! We keep all packaging to a minimum, choosing either reusable, returnable or home compostable materials as appropriate. Of course, many items come with their very own natural packaging and unlike supermarkets we keep these items loose as wrapping them further is totally unnecessary.
Just one thing, please don't return anything we didn't send out to you. We're happy to reunite owners with lost slippers or important letters (trust us, we've seen it all!) but we don't operate a general recycling service.
Cardboard boxes
Your orders will be delivered in durable cardboard boxes. These are used as many times as possible before they are composted at the farm. Please leave these out for collection when your next delivery is due.
Paper sacks
Your root vegetables will come inside paper sacks to stop them escaping or making other items muddy. Like the boxes, these sacks are used multiple times before being composted, so please leave them in your boxes for collection.
Paper bags, punnets and rubber bands
We protect produce such as mushrooms, tomatoes and soft fruits with paper bags and pulp punnets. You can reuse, compost or return these as you prefer.
We bunch items like beetroot, spring onions and carrots together using rubber bands. These do biodegrade so can be treated like our home-compostable bags; however, again, we hope you can find lots of subsequent uses for them before then.
Home compostable bags
For items that need to be kept fresh, such as salad, we use certified home compostable bags. These are different from other biodegradable plastic bags which only break down through an industrial process and may still leave behind micro-plastics. Our bags are made from a blend of polymers that have passed eco-toxicity and heavy metal tests ensuring they are safe for the bacteria and other microorganisms that live in compost to break down.
The bags can be used again and again (and again!) and can then be disposed of in council food waste bins or put on home compost heaps. You can also return them to us- we won’t reuse them though, so it’s nice if they’ve been repurposed first!
The stickers we use to secure our compostable bags are also compostable and made from sugar cane starch.
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