Anyone who orders online is familiar with this: after unpacking, a mountain of packaging waste is left behind that you can't simply put in the waste paper bin. Plastic tape seals the cardboard and plastic padding film fills the gaps, which are often far too large. The young company Ecoon offers mail order companies and manufacturers sustainable alternatives and relies entirely on renewable or recycled materials.
Since August 2020, Ecoon GmbH & Co. KG from Stuhr near Bremen has been selling environmentally friendly packaging and shipping packaging for the B2C and B2B sector.
„Our focus is clearly on sustainability. We use environmentally friendly or reused materials to help our customers switch to plastic-free or low-plastic packaging solutions. Our approach here is to provide advice and implement the use of environmentally friendly shipping solutions.“ Dennis Schulze, Marketing Manager Ecoon
And this is how companies, distributors and end customers are supported in the switch to more sustainable packaging with a 360-degree view of the topic of shipping. „We see ourselves not only as a provider of sustainable packaging for shipping and logistics, but also as a partner in the search for suitable environmentally friendly shipping solutions.“
Renewable and recycled materials
The environmentally friendly production as well as the use of recycled, recyclable or renewable materials plays a major role in the selection of shipping packaging. As an example, Dennis Schulze mentions Folding cartons made from grass paperThe natural raw material grass grows back quickly and is also obtained regionally.
Ecoon offers grass paper boxes in a wide range of sizes. The company also pays attention to short supply chains when it comes to procurement. „For us, a sustainable circular economy also means looking at the entire supply chain. Short distances are important. Our suppliers therefore all come from Germany or other European countries. For example, we source our cardboard boxes made from grass paper from a manufacturer in the region.“
In addition to a large selection of environmentally friendly shipping boxes, there are numerous other products in the start-up's range. Environmentally friendly paper adhesive tapes, bubble wrap or paper padding as well as home-compostable thermal packaging made from jute. An expansion of the portfolio to include sustainable innovations is planned in the near future, but Dennis Schulze does not want to reveal any more.
Ecoon notices high demand
The products from Ecoon are aimed at retailers and manufacturers who want to ship their products in an environmentally friendly way. „Although we are still a young company, we can tell from the high demand that we are attracting a lot of interest with our offering,“ says Schulze.
The costs for the environmentally friendly shipping solutions are slightly higher than those of conventional shipping packaging. But: „We offer fair prices. The surcharge is low, because We want prices that are marketable and conventional shipping packaging. We stand for packaging strategies that are not only environmentally but also economically sustainable.“
