All Your Green Blog

We've shipped a few things that, upon first glance, might look like we have as much regard for the environment as Amazon (who will use a 12x9x4 to ship a cassette tape). Tempting to consider, given that shipping a 12x9x4 box is several dollars cheaper to ship than a smaller box of the same weight! But no! That's not what we're up to.

In actuality, we reuse shipping materials whenever possible. When it's not possible, we try to use shipping materials made from recycled materials. For example, we have never purchased, and will never purchase, those inflated plastic bag thingies, styrofoam peanuts, or otter-skin boxes (ok, I made that up). However, you may receive something from us packed in the peanuts we got from incoming shipments. This is also true for oddly shaped boxes that seem like complete overkill for your order. If we can reuse materials, we'll generally try to. Admittedly, it's better for us, but it's also one less box we had to have manufactured, so it's better for everyone.

In addition, the packing paper we use to stuff boxes (if we're not re-using something else) is 100% recycled content. That's part of the reason we bought it. We're growing quickly, and as we grow, we try to make every change we make a change for the better. So far, we've drastically cut the environmental impact of our operation (which started out pretty good, if I do say so myself) while continuing to increase the number of orders we fulfill!

Thanks to all of you for helping us grow as far as we have in just over a month and a half! We are able to continually add products to the categories, new features to the site, and help more and more people find the green products they're looking for. Who could ask for more?