The inventor of the Rigid-T-sack that replaced plywood chests in the bulk packaging of large leaf teas in 1996, St. Regis has received the world’s first ZeroCarbon Product Certification in its category for the Company’s Rigid-T-Sacks and for Multiwall paper sacks used for the packaging of Leafy and Grainy Teas, a company spokesman said.
The certification means that Ceylon Tea packaged in these two types of St. Regis sacks for the Colombo Tea Auction or for export has offset the carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) of the packaging, reducing the overall product carbon footprint of the teas.
St. Regis Packaging supplies sacks for over half the teas sold at the weekly Colombo Tea Auction, and this industry-first achievement could be a catalyst for greater interest in carbon footprint reduction for tea, the Company’s Director Ajith Fernando said.
St. Regis retained the expert services of The Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC), one of South Asia’s leading Integrated Sustainability Solutions Providers, to assess the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions of the Company’s Multiwall Paper Sacks and Rigid-T-Sacks.
