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New package material meets unique set of requirements for loose tea

Premium tea company Harney & Sons, Millerton, NY, has long championed the environment. With this new flexible, single-stream recyclable packaging material innovation, it outwardly demonstrates and reinforces that commitment.

Harney & Sons tea pouch
Harney & Sons tea pouch

Over the past 13 years, Harney & Sons has given away nearly $3.5 million to eco-friendly causes through the 1% for the Planet non-profit program.

“It’s a way for us to work with local non-profits. For instance, we do a lot of work with Scenic Hudson here in the Hudson Valley. But we are also able to do things more broadly, like on the Appalachian and Pacific Trails, and it allows us to use a portion of our profits in a way that we feel speaks strongly to our mission,” says Emeric Harney, marketing director at Harney & Sons. “It has made our customers more aware, and it has made us, as a company, hold ourselves more accountable.”

Harney also recognizes that his product—premium tea—is a cultivated one that relies on strong stewardship of the Earth. So the growing connection between Harney & Sons and environmental issues led them to reconsider the company’s packaging, which heretofore had strictly used tins.

“It has driven us to find something that can lower our impact as much as possible,” Harney says. “So, we set out to find recyclable flexible packaging options in the market with a set of specific boxes that needed to be checked.”

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