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SUSTAINABILITY
OUR PACKAGING
Don’t throw it all away…
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Depending on your vintage you are probably now humming “on love, on love…” and if you aren’t you won’t have any idea what we are talking about !
At Wally and Eva we spend A LOT of time thinking about and planning the best packaging for our products to meet a few needs:
* That is looks lovely but will travel safely because who wants to receive a boring parcel with broken stuff inside !
* That you can re-use it (our preference) and/or recycle or compost it
* That we support local Australian businesses wherever we can
Ticking the right boxes
Our awesome new gift boxes sourced locally are made from 100% post consumer recycled material filled with cotton.
The paper trail
Our paper shopping bags are made locally, made from recycled paper, reusable and biodegradable.
All the things we love !
Wrap it up...
One of our favourite places to find environmental and sustainable things is Buy Eco Green. We've been shopping with them for years and that's where our beautiful recycled tissue paper comes from.
Sealed with a kiss
Our logo stickers are printed on a thermal printer (no ink !) and are compostable.
Our bag of tricks
Since July 2024 we have been popping your lovely Wally and Eva purchases into these recycled 100% cotton drawstring bags, printed in Sydney using eco-inks and the best thing is you can re-use them again and again. They make great little travel companions. You can use them to hold things like jewellery (of course), make-up, hair stuff, those bits and pieces you don't know where else to put (we all have some of those).
In the box seat
So you buy some stuff from us (be it at a market in person - yay - or on our website) and we need to put it into something for you or the postie to carry. All our boxes are Australian made from 100% recycled cardboard and totally reusable. And in case you needed more on the theme, all our gift bags are Aussie made and 100% recycled too !
Closing time
When it comes to sealing a parcel we have it covered. The packing tapes we use biodegradable AND compostable ! One It's made from bio based film with a natural rubber adhesive and the other is a paper tape.
The printed word
All our printing is done in Australia on 100% post consumer recycled stock using eco-friendly inks.
OUR MATERIALS
We are living in a material world...
Yep another bad 80's reference but we CAN make a difference !
We re-use what we can, try to use all of the offcuts and scraps that are created by our handcrafted creations and strive towards zero waste. We use local suppliers wherever possible.
The fabric of time
Our fabrics predominantly come out of India and the US (who print to order using original artists around the world so there's no waste !). We also use recycled and vintage fabrics but always made of natural cotton and linen and recycled fibres.
The good wood
Our woodwork is made using only sustainable Australian Hardwood Eucalyptus varieties. We make our flower presses from sustainable bamboo.
Sterling effort
Our dangle earrings are made using Australian made Sterling Silver hooks, our studs are made using hypo-allergenic surgical stainless steel posts and butterflies
The voice of resin
Resin get's a bad wrap (for good reason). We LOVE working with resin but only use an Australian Made plant-based bio-resin. It's as 'nice' as it can get and we keep silicon moulds on hand to use up every scrap of resin so that none is wasted.
Natural selection
We use nature in a lot of our products. We don't buy any of it but forage it ourselves. Most of the things we use come from our own garden together with some collecting when we go for a walk (yep, I'm that crazy person with a bag in my pocket crouching down and picking up seeds and leaves from the ground...).
The right stuff
We need lots of stuff when casting with resin so we use reusable silicon measuring cups and utensils along with corn starch plastic free cups, sustainable bamboo stirrers and Australian made 100% recycled paper towels and backing paper.
