We Are Eco

Tide and Earth is committed to being sustainable and eco-friendly, here's the low down.
Ecosilver
Where possible, we use 100% recycled sterling silver from the giftware, electronic and medical industries. When using Ecosilver, we are not only ensuring that then main material we use is part of a recycling process but also guaranteeing that we are not contributing to the continuation of silver mining...woohoo!
Packaging
We pride ourselves on transparency so we want to give you a breakdown of our packaging should you like to read about it (but if you don't have time, long story short, it is all either responsibly sourced, biodegradable/recyclable, made from post consumer waste and completely plastic free.)
So here is the breakdown:
  • Our mailers are recyclable, biodegradable and made entirely from post consumer waste. The honey-comb style padding on the inside ensures that your jewellery stays safe and sound on arrival to you. 
  • Our tissue paper is made entirely from post consumer waste in the UK, acid free and biodegradable. So it can either be popped in your home compost or recycling bin.
  • Twine is biodegradable.
  • Our logo stickers are completely biodegradable.
  • Our packing tape also biodegrades.

Our cotton pouches

We knew we wanted simple, sustainable pouches for our jewellery. We were not convinced typical jewellery boxes were entirely plastic free so we had to find the alternative and did so with cotton pouches. We had found exactly what we were looking for, the product we had imagined using so called sustainable materials, excellent! But we encountered a problem, there was no information on who was making these pouches, where they were being made and how much those who were making them were being paid to do so. This left us feeling pretty hopeless, but all we knew is that we didn't want to buy into this system of insincere "sustainability" for the sake of ease. So we kept it authentic, ordered another logo stamp, plant-based ink and found truly sustainable materials which in the process supported other small businesses and made them ourselves! It doesn't get more sustainable than that!

We plant trees!

We proudly teamed up with Ecodrive who allow us to ensure our customers that every order placed, plants a tree...not just any tree, but a mangrove! Mangroves re one of the highest carbon reducing trees on the planet. Not only do they aid in the absorption of carbon but they also protect coastlines and communities against storm surges and are a crucial part of coastal ecosystems. 

 

Future plans

We are continuously revising techniques and strategies to ensure we are as eco-friendly as possible, we are also completely open to suggestions from our customers as to how we can progress with this further. We are currently looking at how we can accurately offset our carbon emissions produced by the electricity our little workshop uses.