“Is all that plastic really necessary?” We sometimes get that question after we have sent a package with products from the OMFT webshop. It may happen that we use quite a bit of plastic – or other material that cannot exactly be called sustainable – to protect products in transit or to fill a box. Please be aware that these are almost exclusively materials that we have received from suppliers when sending their products to us.
We regularly call on our suppliers to use more sustainable materials in their shipments, but until that happens, it makes more sense for us to use that packaging material a second time to ship our items, rather than dispose of it and then to purchase the necessary new, albeit more sustainable, materials. So we recycle as much material as possible.
This also applies to the shipping boxes we use. We give all the boxes that we receive a second life in the webshop. That is why it may happen that someone receives a box from us with a completely different logo on it.
Even if it only involves relatively little material; We try to handle this reuse as carefully as possible. So that as little environmentally harmful packaging material as possible is needed and needs to be produced.
