Guilt free shipping with compostable courier bags

We are proud to say we use Go SweetSpot for shipping our stickers and signs New Zealand wide using sustainable packaging.  Our stickers and smaller signs are wrapped in paper and sent out in eco-bags which are:

• Home compostable
• Commercially compostable
• Made from plants

Larger signs are wrapped in cardboard and paper.

The nerdy science stuff

The compostable bags are derived from biopolymers and co-polymer; PBAT (polybutylene adipate terephthalate), Corn-starch and PLA (polylactic acid). None of Go SweetSpot’s products contain any conventional plastic whatsoever which we think is great!

What to do with your eco-bag

After receiving your stickers or signs, and if you have no further use for the bag, remove or cut off any labels/stickers or tape still attached and place the bag itself into your compost bin or worm farm. If you do not have a home compost, you will be able to send them to your nearest commercial composting facility.

How long will it take to break down?

These bags are certified by all three industry certifiers; Vincotte, BPI and Dincerto, meeting American, European, International and Australian standards – including certifications for your domestic home compost. To gain these certifications, the product must break down within 90 days in commercial compost and 180 days in domestic compost conditions, including worm farm compost. After degradation, they must leave no harmful residues behind. In fact, the only residue left behind is a soil enhancer which is returned to the earth as plant food!  Although there is no higher standard, Go SweetSpot’s own tests show that, in quality compost, these eco-bags bags will decompose at twice the rate required.

Why not do a test for yourself?  I’m going to put one in my worm farm to see what happens…

Other sustainable packaging

We wrap your stickers in paper and when they don’t fit into an eco-bag, we use cardboard so it can all be recycled.  Where possible, we also reuse cardboard and other packaging that we have received.  It might not always look so pretty but the planet will thank us for it!  Apart from some stickers and signs which come shrink-wrapped or bubble-wrapped for protection – the only time we’ll send your items in bubble wrap or other plastic packaging is when it is being reused, and we hope you can reuse it too!  If not, please dispose of it at your nearest soft plastic recycling collection point (click here to learn more about recycling soft plastics).