Eco-Friendly Packaging...Doing The Right Thing...
Making Conscious Eco-Friendly Packaging Choices Helps Take Care of the Earth...
Minimizing our environmental impact and protecting the integrity of the tea we carry is the primary objective of our eco-friendly packaging selections. We consistently strive to obtain compostable, biodegradable, or otherwise environmentally friendly pouches and bags for packaging our teas, as well as offering customers refillable tins that can be used for convenient, effective tea storage and access.
As availability changes, our packaging may transition to a different look, but our goal of sourcing eco-friendly packaging made from sustainable materials remains the same. Appreciating tea is about appreciating the Earth and the gifts we receive from nature. Staying conscious about our supply choices and the impact they have is, to us, an important part of the Healthy Tea Lifestyle.
Eco-Friendly Packaging Keeps Tea Fresh...
Ordering in larger pouches or bags and transferring your tea to a Working Tin as needed is a great way to both minimize your disposable packaging and have a convenient and attractive way to access and enjoy your tea. When you order tea and a tin, we will include labels for your tin and package the tealeaves inside.
Tea is not partial to light, oxygen, or moisture, and stays the freshest when exposure to these and other factors is minimized. Less-oxidized teas like green and white teas are more susceptible to changes in the environment than more-oxidized teas, like black teas and oolongs.
See this study by Zhang et al. from the National Library of Medicine for a detailed analysis of how light affects the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.
Our effort to utilize eco-friendly packaging allows us to feel even better about sharing quality tea through quality methods. Our customers and our Earth deserve great care, and we do our best at Drink Great Tea to make conscious choices when we source our eco-friendly packaging materials.