What is sustainability?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In addition to natural resources, we also need social and economic resources. Sustainability is not just environmentalism. Embedded in most definitions of sustainability we also find concerns for social equity and economic development.
We strive for a tomorrow where sustainability isn’t a fancy buzzword or part of a program; it’s just the way everyone lives - let’s get down to what makes Rootree who we say we are.
Digital printing is the cornerstone of our operations.
HP has mapped, calculated and executed the necessary steps to offset the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacturing of their presses from raw materials mining to factory gate.
landfill what we want to avoid
In traditional rotogravure and offset printing, plates and cylinders are essential to the process. Our HP digital presses are plate-less and offer endless customizable and versatile design opportunities.
Optimization
Picture a frame on your wall with one photo in it. Just like that, we always try to squeeze as many pouches as possible into a frame, and sometimes a small tweak in proportions allows us to get another pouch or two out of each frame. By doing this, we can effectively eliminate waste and turn it into pouches.Our ability to produce shorter runs eliminates the waste typically generated when clients cannot consume an entire run of packaging purchased only to meet certain traditional MOQ (sometimes more than 50,000 units).
That said, our low minimum practice allows for flexibility during the manufacturing process to produce less waste during printing and converting setups.
Rootree manufactures pouches very differently than traditional pouch converters. These innovative methods are proprietary but revolve heavily around reducing and repurposing waste.
- Ink usage is reduced by 25% - 50% compared to traditional printing methods.
- HP Indigo presses are designed to reduce energy use and promote energy efficiency among users, as compared to traditional printing methods. HP Indigo technology has high drying efficiency by its design, significantly reducing energy consumption for high ink coverage jobs.
Our Sustainable Packaging Options
The Flexible Advantage
Smaller Environmental Footprint
Lightweight = Lower Transportation Costs
Inks Certified For Use in Compostable Packaging
Optimized Formats For Waste Reduction
Rootree's Flexible Advantage
Supports Reforestation
T-Shirts Made From Recycled PET Bottles
- 89.9kg CO2e of emissions avoided
- 138.0 kWh of energy conserved
- 31.1kg of waste diverted
- 123,469.7L of water saved
- 345.7km of driving emissions avoided
- 95.9 days of bulb energy saved
- 3273.5 PET bottles recycled
- 64, 984.1 days of drinking water saved
Compared to typical t-shirts, each Ungalli shirt saves:
- 10 PET bottles from going to the landfill
- 191 days of drinking water
- 7 hours of lightbulb energy
- 260gm of CO2 - the equivalent of 1km of driving emissions
Together, we are planting verified trees and kelp
Recovering plastic waste
Terracycle
RESIN Program
Our RESIN program – the Rootree Employee Self-Improvement Network – encourages our staff to dedicate time in their workday to their physical and mental wellness and personal development through a variety of initiatives.
Encouraging great relationships, wellbeing, and collaboration is the foundation of our company culture.
We love what we do here at Rootree, and we want to be able to do it for a long time to come.
It’s thanks to like-minded people such as yourselves, that we can continue to thrive and make this packaging industry a better place to be.
Our Incredible Staff
Whether our staff are supporting the business community in finding just the right packaging fit, on the production line assuring the top quality of our products and services, or working on a brand-new design, they all have one thing in common: every day they put their best foot forward to personify Rootree’s vision, mission, and values.
