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If you removed a lip balm cap sticker what would you do with it? (And let's assume you didn't know it was compostable, because it's hard to make it obvious that it is).
- put it in the garbage?
- put in in your commercial compost bin (and do you even have access to a commercial compost bin because you can't compost these in your backyard)?
- If you were us would you?
- buy the cheaper plastic stickers?
- buy the compostable plastic stickers (note: paper stickers usually have plastic reinforcements)
- Stop stickering altogether, because what's the likelihood that someone will 'tamper' with the lip balm while it's being shipped from us to you?
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The best solution would be to stop stickering altogether, if it’s not required by law. The product is not likely to be tampered with during shipping, and it is usually quite easy to tell if the surface on the top of the lip balm has been swiped on anything.
Using the compostable stickers is preferable to using the plastic ones. However, as I mentioned in your post on Instagram, even in my city of Los Angeles, the supposed Mecca of eco-friendliness in the United States, our waste facilities don’t have the capabilities of composting anything that’s like a bio plastic. I sure hope it’s different in Toronto.
A couple of ways you could make it more obvious that the sticker is compostable is to put it somewhere in big print on the product page itself on your website. Also, if you pack any kind of paper invoice when you ship products to people, you could put it prominently somewhere there as well.
I do not think this little thing is good for anything when it comes to upcycling, at least not that I know of, so, if I didn’t know it was compostable I would put it in the trash, and I personally would have to put it in the trash anyway because it doesn’t belong in our green bins.
I still applaud you for making the effort to even find a compostable lip balm seal, and for spending the money on it. The intention is admirable.
I’m quite disappointed in recycling these days because many of the things we carefully wash out and place in the recycle bin can’t be recycled and just end up in the landfill anyway. So I vote NO, don’t bother with the recyclable sticker, especially because it has to be commercially recycled.
I would not want you to go to non compostable stickers. Do you mail them yourselves? If so, can they be mailed in packaging like your soap powders? Would that be secure enough?
I would put it in the garbage.
Don’t use stickers.
No sticker needed
1. If you removed a lip balm cap sticker what would you do with it? If I did not know it was compostable, it would go in the garbage (bc I know better). However, most home and body products I buy, I do lots of research, both on toxicity and on sustainability, so unless you didn’t put that fact on your website, I’d probably already know since I sought out the product to have shipped to my home. I DO have access to commercial compost (yay!) and compost as much material as I can, so if i knew it was compostable, then it would go in compost 100%.
2. If you were us would you?… As a company that seems to be pretty supportive of going plastic-free (which I appreciate as an earth-loving consumer), I don’t think cheaping out on the sticker is the right move. If it were me, I would go all in on compostable stickers or just get rid of them. The extra $0.03/per tube isn’t going to break budgets when you’re shelling out $8 for lip balm anyway, nor will $0.03 impact my decision to choose your product over another product – though knowingly choosing a plastic sticker might! And as you mentioned, with these being direct to consumer, having no sticker doesn’t seem that weird to me. Either way, stick to your ethos!! That ethos is why I was drawn to your brand in the first place!
Thanks for making thoughtful, earth and human friendly products!
1. put in garbage
2. stop stickering
Even if the seal wasn’t composted, not purchasing plastic is a big win. You could add a paper note in the package.
No sticker..not necessary.
1. If you removed a lip balm cap sticker what would you do with it? If I didn’t know it was compostable I would put it in the garbage. If I knew it was compostable I’d look to see if my local compost would accept it and put it in the compost if they did. If I knew it was compostable and I didn’t remove the sticker (just cut it in half and opened the lip balm) I would keep it on the tube and put the whole thing in the compost.
2. If you were us would you? For only $0.03 per lip chap I’d get the compostable ones. If it was a lot more expensive I’d consider offering both options. Then if someone knows that their compost program wouldn’t accept the stickers or doesn’t have an industrial compost program they can get the regular sticker and for those that have a program that would accept it they could choose the higher price for the compostable sticker.