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This Coffee Brand’s Packaging Contributes to Reforestation

What We Bought

Onyx Coffee Collection Box

$55
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Date Purchased:
1/1/22
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What We Bought

Onyx Coffee Lab Byword Shop Rag

$10
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Date Purchased:
1/1/22
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What We Bought

Onyx Coffee Lab Have a Nice Day Baby Baggu

$20
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Date Purchased:
1/1/22
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Onyx Coffee, a small-shop coffee roasting company, considers how to bring sustainability in everything they do from their coffee, product design, and package design.

The brand boasts their impressive sustainability numbers on their website, diving into the details of how their unboxing and packaging following sustainability guidelines. 

Onyx Coffee Lab's Sustainability Guide

Their mailers are eco-friendly, eliminating excess plastic from their packaging. The mailers come in a certified compostable bag and are made from renewable plant-based materials. Onyx Coffee supports the Eco-Packaging Alliance, which benefits global reforestation. Fun fact: Their compostable packaging breaks down in 180-90 days.

Onyx Coffee Lab's Packaging

Their beautifully designed packaging features an embossed detail for both the name of the company and a snake and coffee leaves. While their box looks nice, it also helps the environment by being 100% recyclable, reusable, biodegradable, and renewable.

Onyx Coffee Lab x Baggu Collaboration

The brand recently partnered with Baggu, a sustainable bag company, to make a reusable shopping tote with the iconic Onyx Coffee skull designed like the old plastic ‘Have A Nice Day’ bags. Aligning with other brands that share a mission reinforces Onyx’s commitment to creating a better planet with their products.

Photo Credit:

Thumbnail photo courtesy of Onyx Coffee Labs