How to Recycle or Reuse Your Packaging
How to Recycle or Reuse Your Packaging
Building towards a more circular economy
Reuse: Your mailer has two tear strips. Open your mailer at the bottom tear strip. This reveals a second intact self seal, which is used for your next shipment. If you need to return your order, we recommend reusing this mailer for the return.
Recycle: Recycle at thin film drop off, at most grocery stores and big box retailers. Shipping labels do not need to be removed.
Send Back: Don't have access to thin film recycling? Stuff your mailer with clean, dry plastic film and send it to EcoEnclose - we'll recycle it for you.
Open with pull tab on back of mailer. Throw this plastic tab away.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. Shipping labels do not need to be removed.
Mailers are naturally biodegradable and technically compostable, but please recycle them!
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. Unfold and flatten box first.
Most programs do not require labels or tape to be removed (these are skimmed off in repulping). Check guidance from your recycler first.
Corrugate is naturally biodegradable and technically compostable, but please recycle it!
Recycle: All of these paper mailers are accepted by curbside recycling programs, as part of the paper recycling stream. Shipping labels and tape do not need to be removed. Paper mailers are naturally biodegradable and technically compostable, but please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Reuse if possible. Otherwise, recycle: Recycle at thin film drop off, at most grocery stores and big box retailers. Or send back to EcoEnclose.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
If your packaging arrives with paper-based tape sealing it, the tape does not have to be removed. It will be skimmed off during the repulping process. Removing the tape will, however, lead to cleaner input for your MRF.
If your packaging arrives with plastic tape sealing it, the tape does not have to be removed. It will be skimmed off during the repulping process. Removing the tape will, however, lead to cleaner input for your MRF.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Check with your waste management provider: Accepted at most curbside recycling programs. Because of the flimsy nature of this paper, a small percentage of recyclers do not accept them. If this is true for your recycler, please compost or landfill (after trying to reuse).
Check with your waste management provider: Some providers prefer tissue paper to be curbside recycled, others prefer tissue to be composted because of the flimsy nature of the material and their short fiber lengths. Follow guidance from your service provider.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
EcoEnclose offers stickers in a number of different facestocks - 100% recycled paper, coated paper and plastic. Regardless of the facestock, stickers are not recyclable in isolation. The question to ask is - how do they effect the recyclability of the substrate they are placed on. In most cases, the package they are on can be recycled as it normally would. Stickers feature recycle friendly adhesive that allows them to be easily separated in the recycling process.
Recycle: Accepted in curbside recycling. While these are naturally biodegradable, please recycle them.
If your paper, poly or corrugated package arrives with a paper-based shipping labels, they do does not need to be removed before recycling the package (with most recyclers).
Home compost: Hemp twine can be composted in any style home compost bin.
Accepted at some industrial composting facilities: Hemp twine is naturally biodegradable and readily compostable, but it can take more to decompose than the timeframe required for some composting facilities. Check with your local provider.