Our Practices
If you want a healthy body and a healthy planet, you have to do more than mean well. You have to do good things. At every step, from baking to packaging to delivery, we do what we can to be as sustainable as possible. Here’s a brief list of some of the things we do.Reduced Waste
Garbage is strictly a human invention, and it’s one that we’re trying to un-invent. We do everything we can to make waste a thing of the past.
We partner with local businesses and non-profit organizations to make sure that we don’t let our products and ingredients go to waste. Ninety-nine percent of our bakery offices are furnished with recycling bins, and we re-use 100% of our transport trays and racks when delivering bread. We’re not perfect, but we try to seize every opportunity to reuse instead of contributing to the world’s landfills.
Packaging
One hundred percent of our bags are made with eco-friendly biodegradable material. The bags are treated with TDPA, which turns conventional plastics like polyethylene and polystyrene into degradable and biodegradable materials when disposed of properly.
During regular use, a bag treated with TDPA is indistinguishable from an ordinary plastic bag, and it can be re-used and recycled. When triggered by the right pre-determined conditions, such as heat, UV light or mechanical stress, the bags begin to break down. These bags—each and every one of them—will disintegrate harmlessly in the soil, instead of sitting indefinitely in a landfill somewhere. After all, the idea is to keep the earth green.
For more information about TDPA, visit epi-global.com.
Recycling
We recycle over 98% of production waste. We’re very proud of this number, and we constantly work to improve it. It takes a lot of commitment and foresight to acknowledge and minimize production waste. We also use 100% post-consumer recycled paper for operations and presentations and 100% reclaimed wood for display fixtures. By now, the importance of recycling is no surprise to anyone, and we’re dedicated to recycle in as many new ways as possible.
Re-use
As bakers—and as food lovers in general—we love to make food, but we really don’t like to waste it. To that end, we offer 100% of our overages to nonprofit organizations, especially food banks. We also eliminate waste of another kind by re-using 99% of our excess cardboard.