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Packaging
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Packaging
Black and white. And green.
Our products should arrive to your home looking as beautiful as they do in our stores, catalogues and website. Since 2001, we have been taking important steps to improve the packaging materials we use with the goal of protecting your purchases as well as the environment. We will continue seeking more eco-friendly material improvements, and we are encouraging our vendors to do the same.
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Our new shopping bags and boxes.
We have recently improved our famous black and white logo store and direct marketing boxes by phasing out the use of white bleached board in favor of a more eco-friendly renewable fiber that contains post-consumer recyclable material. In 2007, Crate and Barrel also requested that its vendors discontinue the use of white bleached shipping cartons. Our store shopping bags for the 2007 holiday season were up to 30 percent post-consumer recycled material and were printed with environmentally friendly, water-based inks. It is our goal by Fall 2008, that our black and white logo bags will also have up to 30 percent post-consumer material, and will be printed with environmentally friendly, water-based inks. The protective tissue we use in our shopping bags and boxes is 100 percent recyclable, 70 percent post-consumer waste content.
Goodbye peanuts and foam.
In 2001, Crate and Barrel stores discontinued using petroleum-based packing peanuts to protect customer purchases; by April 2006, the use of peanuts was discontinued company-wide. In 2002, Crate and Barrel eliminated foam-in-place as a packing material.
Hello eco-friendly Geämi™ and Novus(®).
Today, all merchandise purchases boxed at our stores and warehouses are carefully packaged and protected with Geämi or Novus air cushions. Biodegradable Geämi is 100 percent recyclable paper, made from a renewable resource. Both its outer paper and inner tissue can go right in the recycling bin. The Novus air cushions we use are source-reduced packaging: Each cushion is 98 percent air and just 2 percent recyclable plastic, so they can be popped, disposed, recycled and reused in the manufacture of other plastic items.
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