Nature friendly packaging
Ada Store strongly aims for waste reduction and nature friendly options. Our shipping packaging solutions are based on kraft paper shipping bags and cardboard boxes.
Natural raffia is also a strong and eco-friendly alternative for bundling textile products.
Why Kraft paper shipping bags
Brown Kraft paper is unbleached to retain the natural wood colour and keep chemical treatments to a minimum, making it a 100% natural biomaterial and a genuine ecological alternative: it is bio-based, biodegradable, recyclable and compostable.
Natural Kraft paper is a recyclable (and much-recycled) eco-material.
Natural Kraft paper is a single material that lends itself to recycling. Its long fibres, which can be recycled several times, make it a perfect base for managing packaging at the end of its lifecycle.
Paper and cardboard are the most recycled materials.
Paper fibre is used an average of four to five times thanks to paper recycling. Throughout its lifetime and repeated recycling, paper is a genuine carbon sink.
Kraft paper is a natural, biodegradable and compostable material.
Its pulp, made of long virgin maritime pine fibres, is unbleached to keep chemical treatments to a minimum and retain the natural wood colour.
Kraft paper is naturally biodegradable: like tree leaves, the paper breaks down into cellulose fibres naturally in just a few weeks and can be entirely absorbed by the environment without any impacts on the environment or human health.
While Kraft paper is entirely biodegradable, this does not mean you should not dispose of it properly! Whenever possible, reuse the packaging or place it in a recycling bin.
Why natural raffia
Raffia is a straw-like material that is gained from a palm tree. It originated in Madagascar but has since been grown in other parts of Eastern Africa
The trees can grow up to 16 m tall and has the longest compound pinnate leaves in the plant kingdom. They can grow up to 25 m long and 3 m wide!
The local harvesters cut the green leaves of individual palm fronds. Once the leaves are cut, they are left out in the sun to dry out. The sun causes the long leaves to turn into brown strings. After they are dried out, they are sorted by size and quality.
Natural raffia is truly biodegradable and compostable with no potential confusion about synthetic dyes being used on a natural product. Raffia is very sustainable as long as it is all natural.
We hope you enjoy receiving your bundle wrapped up in the raffia.