Dried Herbs packaging for Kuckucksmühle
We want to be able to offer people who are interested in our project something to take home with them. As we have plenty of wild grown organic herbs this seemed the more obvious and sustainable choice of product.
Criteria
The packaging needs to be:
- bio based - does not contain plastic
- bio degradable
- can easily hold a minimum of 100 grams of weight
- made in accordance to food safety standards
- able to be sealed
- produced locally
- produced in a sustainable way
- affordable
- re-usable
- …
Alternatives & Other considerations
If it is not possible to find a product that satisfies all the criteria we would also like to consider using donated recycled jars for this project these would satisfy the following criteria:
- can easily hold a minimum of 100 grams of weight
- made in accordance to food safety standards
- able to be sealed
- re-usable
Another alternative would be to let people bring their own containers to refill.
Findings
Here we examine which product provider would be the best fit for our purposes:
| Name of Company | Natürlich verpacken - Parterremedia GmbH |
|---|---|
| Product | Paper bag 55 x 175 mm, round window, kraft paper, ribbed |
| Product no. | 2321110448 |
Product info provided by the supplier
| Material | kraft paper |
| Color | brown |
| Surface | ribbed |
| Grammage | 50 g/m² |
| Printing | unprinted |
| Minimum order quantity | 25 pieces |
| Usage | pastry bag, gift bag, kraft paper bag, coffee bag, tea bag, block bottom bag |
| Size (W x D x H) | 55 x 30 x 175 mm |
| Criteria | Info | Additional Comments |
|---|---|---|
| bio based - does not contain plastic | Yes | |
| bio degradable | Yes | |
| hold a minimum of 100 grams of weight | Unknown | it works well |
| made in accordance to food safety standards | Yes | |
| able to be sealed | Unknown | not completely but can be using sticky label |
| produced locally | Yes | Germany |
| produced in a sustainable way | Yes | |
| affordable | Eur 0.18 (1,000), Eur 0.19 (500), Eur 0.20 (250) | this requires an initial investment of c. Eur 50 to Eur 60 incl. shipping this will put the price up and perhaps make the product less affordable |
| re-usable | Yes | |
| Status | rejected | have decided to use plain brown paper bags with instructions for customers to transfer to sterilized jars, it makes the product more eco friendly and uses recycled materials |