We are sustainably sustainable… bro
At Kombucha Bros we love our environment, it is the best playground anyone could have built, so we see it as our duty to take care of it. And with this, we have a variety of strategies embedded in our business model to support showcasing just how much we mean it when we say, we care.
We use unique packaging that isn’t commonly used in the kombucha market, cans. An old-school memory that is rarely used in the marketplace today, but luckily for us, it is not forgotten and is a big part of our future packaging strategies.
In New Zealand cans can be recycled in every region. Currently, you can’t say that about glass. It takes a lot less energy to melt down the cans to recycle, they weigh a lot less than glass and they reduce light strikes and keep our kombucha fresher, decreasing your carbon footprint and consumer waste. Lastly, they cost less, giving you more value for your money and also more value for our environment - bring back the can!
We also sell our products in kegs, the kegs we use are reusable, easy to ship and lightweight. It takes a lot less energy to fill a keg and the product remains fresher for longer.
Locally Sourced
Local sourcing of our product line ingredients is also an important strategy to our business model, we source all of our ingredients locally, including our 1.25L PET riggers which we source from a local Nelson manufacturer. We can recycle these locally straight back into the plant that makes them and for those of you purchasing outside of the Nelson region, they are infinitely reusable. The three ‘R’s’, reduce, re-use and recycle are continuously at work in our value chain.
Since China and Australia have stopped excepting our glass recycling, we knew we needed to step up to make a change. The first stop was beer and wine bottles as these are coloured glass. Our biggest glass recycler tends to only recycle clear food packaging glass, so unfortunately, most of this glass ends up chipped up and back and our landfills. Or in the past, it would’ve been chipped up and sent back to China or Australia which is a massive tax on our carbon footprint. This is why we are making the move exclusively to cans, kegs and riggers.
We don’t want to see our environment waste away because simple and easy sustainable practices aren’t being considered, so rest assured we are continuously investing in research and development to stay on top of our sustainable practices and we welcome your ideas… Also, feel free to reuse those 1.25 L riggers for your own kombucha, homebrew, drink bottles or even as a bird feeder!! Reduce, reuse and then, recycle. ♻️ Good on ya Bro!
