Following our presentation on Sustainable Sandalwood at the NY Sustainable Cosmetic Summit in 2018, one of the other presenters shared with us that the waste of HDPE packaging was literally twice as much as aluminum. This made us reflect on our packaging choice and set in motion our next challenge – implement more sustainable product packaging for our oils.
Shortly afterwards, we established a Packaging Team and started our own research. Here are some of the more interesting packaging facts we found:
After a 6-month long packaging project, Down Under successfully converted all essential oil packaging (1kg, 5kg, 10kg, 20kg) to aluminum. By converting from HDPE to Aluminium packaging for our smaller quantities, we are reducing our packaging carbon footprint by more than 38%.
It also helped our initiative that ATTIA, the Australian Tea Tree Industry Association, conducted an extended shelf life study of aluminum flasks and determined that these were suitable for the intermediate storage of pure Australian Tea Tree Oil when the aluminum packaging consisted of:
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UPDATE 15 APRIL 2020: The sustainability people at PROVENANCE (www.provenance.org) recently conducted a webinar on packaging conundrum companies face when navigating what type of product packaging to use and how to account for all environmental impacts of these packaging choices. Here's a link to their WEBINAR.