Rose and Violet Creams Chocolates

RECYCLING

CHOCOLATE BOX

Lid and Base

The lid and base are made from card, manufactured in the UK from FSC certified sources. They are biodegradable and suitable for card recycling. They use water based adhesive and do not emit volatile organic compounds in to the environment.

Clear Compostable Bag

The clear bag wrapping the chocolates is made from plant material and can be home composted, put in your food waste or garden waste. It is not plastic and shouldn’t be put in your plastic recycling.

Gold Chocolate Tray

We are working on a completely biodegradeable solution for our chocolate trays… but we’re not quite there yet..

The Gold chocolate tray is made from Gold Pigmented PET. PET is widely recycled – but check with your local facilities

The tray conforms to European (and UK) food contact legislation concerning plastic materials and articles in contact with food, including satisfactory migration testing results confirming suitability for contact with any food types.

Glassine Cushion Pad on top of chocolates

This is biodegradeable and suitable for paper recycling. 

POSTAL PACKAGING

Cardboard Box

The brown cardboard outers are made from FSC certified sources, are 100% recyclable and are sealed with 100% recyclable brown kraft tape.

Biodegradeable Bubble wrap

The green coloured bubble wrap we use is Biodegradable. These are made from a formulation containing a mixture of a metal ion pro-oxidant system and a biodegradation initiator. These bubble bags will promote the growth of microbial colonies to break them down over 9-12 months and is dependant on temperature and where they are stored. The process of degradation is accelerated in higher temperatures and high UV levels. It helps prevent our landfill sites being filled with polythene products that will take thousands of years to degrade !

We don’t seal the bags so please also reuse them for your own parcels.

Brown Paper Wrap

We are trialing a brown paper wrap made from recycled paper in place of bubblewrap. This can be put in your paper recycling.

Large blow up cushions

We use larger bubbles for cushioning. We now use a fully compostable cushion made from recycled potato peelings. This is printed on the bubble that it is made from potato peelings and can be put in your compost heap. These can be recycled in your house hold compost heap, food waste bin or garden waste bin. They are not plastic and shouldn’t be put in your plastic bin as this could contaminate plastic recycling.

(It is our intention to only use biocompostable bubbles made from organic material. However we sometimes reuse other peoples bubbles. These are not printed as ‘biocompostable’ and are typically made from recycled plastic and can be recycled in your house hold plastic bin. )

Delivery
We use DPD Local for most of our deliveries. They are Carbon Neutral through efficient delivery vehicles and carbon offsetting.