As sustainability becomes a priority, understanding recycling symbols is crucial for both businesses and consumers. These symbols help identify how different packaging materials, including envelopes, should be disposed of responsibly.
Creating your own envelopes is a simple and fun DIY project! Whether you need an envelope for a greeting card, invitation, or a unique touch for a handmade note, this guide will show you how to make an envelope using materials like white paper, coloured card, scissors, double sided tape or glue, card blanks, and a ruler.
If you’re a Vinted seller, choosing the right packaging can make a significant difference in protecting your items, impressing your buyers, and streamlining your shipping process. From durable mailers to eco-friendly options, using high quality materials ensures your items arrive safely
It's that time of year again where we shut down for Christmas! Our last day for dispatch is Monday 23rd December and we will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2025. Orders can still be placed on our websites during the Christmas period as normal
15 Nov 2024, 10:16 AM
A Comprehensive Guide to FSC Grades in Sustainable Packaging
15 Nov 2024, 10:16 AMThe Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification is an essential benchmark for sustainable forestry practices. It ensures that the materials used in products are sourced responsibly while protecting biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.
20 Jan 2020, 12:00 AM
Imagination, Creativity, Innovation
3 things that are required if we are to replace traditional plastic based products with sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives.
Inspiration can sometimes be found in the unlikeliest of places as this recent winner of the International James Dyson award has recently proved.
Lucy Hughes a student at the University of Sussex has developed ‘Marine Tex’, a product, which to all intents and purposes looks and feels like a translucent plastic sheet. It is however made from fish scales and skin.
'Marine Tex’ is flexible and strong as you would expect from fish scales making it suitable for plastic bags, covers for packed sandwiches etc. This product however biodegrades in 4-6 weeks in the ground or a normal household waste or compost bin. As a bonus it has the dual purpose of utilising some of the 50 million tonnes of waste per year produced by the fishing industry and as if this wasn’t enough, the product is actually edible with nutritional value!
It is a shining example of the circular environment – taking from nature to create a utilisable product, which then biodegrades back into the earth, leaving minimal carbon footprint.
This type of innovation inspires us at World Of Envelopes and we are continually re-evaluating our products to reduce plastic and environmental impact.
Our recently introduced plastic-free padded bag range with Combelopes and Flutelopes is now in stock and being well received by customers. But we haven’t stopped there and are now replacing the plastic ‘peel and seal’ strips on existing products with recyclable paper equivalents.
In addition, we have now done away with excess packaging and plastic bags to send our orders and have invested in paper ‘potato’ sacks and a stitching machine. Orders can now be sent in secure packaging safe in the knowledge that this can be recycled or composted reducing the environmental impact.