Packaging and Recycling
Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle
Every choice makes a difference. At Traditional Medicinals®, we've been thinking a lot about our choices for more than thirty years.Our low impact packaging and recycling plan help us leave a lighter footprint for all of us here today - and tomorrow. These sustainable steps are a normal part of our daily business practices.
- For twelve consecutive years, Traditional Medicinals® has received the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) award, recognized for our outstanding efforts to reduce waste!
- Each employee has an individual recycling container to make it easy to recycle paper, plastic, glass, metal and anything else we can. Paper is one of the largest sources of waste from businesses, so in addition to recycling, we constantly seek ways to minimize our office paper use.
- Our tea cartons are made from recycled paper board (at least 55% verified post-consumer waste) and shipped in recyclable shipping cases.
- We use tea bags made from unbleached manila hemp (Musa textilis) pulp attached to a cotton (Gossypium spp.) string.
- You can compost your used tea bags, string and all, rather than throwing them in the trash. They will make great soil later on!
- You can also help support our efforts by easily recycling your empty Traditional Medicinals® tea boxes - check with your local trash service to determine whether they pick up recycling or not.
Check out the recycling informaton messages on all of our tea cartons, we print useful tips on the inside of every box.
Learn about how you can minimize your household footprint:
Visit Earth 911 - Making Every Day Earth Day
Read about WRAP.