When we think about “sustainable packaging,” we think about recycled paper and plastics, but there is a lot more to sustainability than that. In running across a company called Distant Village Packaging, which specializes in sustainable packaging, that fact was brought home in a powerful way. . . in pictures.
I learned of A Distant Village when it introduced what it calls “the world’s most environmentally-friendly labels.” Called Pure Labels, these are adhesive-backed inkjet or laser printer labels made of wild grass paper. They are not only produced with 100% recyclable materials (including no HDPE or other plastics) but are manufactured according to what the company calls “the strictest adherence to socially responsible business practices.”
That’s what impressed me most about the company. Lots of companies claim to produce “green” products, but A Distant Village is looking at the entire lifecycle and social, as well as environmental, impact of the packaging design and production.
Its website states:
Job creation, fair wages, fair trade, pre-payment to support artisan workshops, and steady, guaranteed demand chains are some of the ways we contribute toward fair and conscientious global economic participation. By engaging industries in remove villages, families thrive, children have futures, and local economies flourish.
By Heidi Tolliver-Nigro
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