Afternoon @monabg … you asked a really important question that I just wanted to give you more visibility to … especially because your thinking is entirely consistent with our three core values …
Purity of Plants
Power of Pioneers
Preservation of Planet
For the past few months, we have been looking into a closed circuit system for our plant pods and have asked you to kindly hold onto your empty formulation bottles in the meantime. This way, empty pods can be collected, cleaned, and reused - and we get to avoid the recycling bin for that little while longer! P.s. all sofi packaging is already recyclable and free of plastics - but we can always try to do better!
We are currently in the testing phase of this process, and as you can see from the poor n.03 casualty pictured below, we still have more work to do when it comes to perfecting our sterilisation system!
So, we have more work to do and we need more bottles to test! For all S1 Pioneers who are based in the UK, we would like to collect any empty or unused valerian plant pods you may have. To do so, we will be including a prepaid return stamp inside the formulation box containing your new passiflora formulations. We ask all pioneers to use that packaging to return the valerian bottles back to our facility here in the UK.
For S1 Pioneers not based in the UK, our very next goal is to develop a system that can function in each local market, without increasing the carbon footprint of international air shipment. In the meantime, please continue to hold onto your empty bottles while we find the gentlest ecological footprint for sofi. xx 