What Does Sustainability Mean?

In honor of Earth Month we’d like to contribute to the decentralization of information and make our key green terms accessible with this index. Join us in our commitment to fostering a more sustainable future for our planet!

• Refers to the use of a resource in a maintainable format, avoiding the depletion of the natural resource and compromising it for future generations.

Define Sustainable:

• Refers to the use of a resource in a maintainable format, avoiding the depletion of the natural resource and compromising it for future generations.

• Refers to the use of a resource in a maintainable format, avoiding the depletion of the natural resource and compromising it for future generations.

Define Circular Economy:

• Refers to a no-waste economy that designs waste out, built to undertake devastating global challenges such as climate change. It applies the framework that resources, products, and materials should be renewable, repurposable, reusable, to reduce environmental impact.
• Explore the circular economy and its application from our conversation with Emma Chow of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

• Refers to a no-waste economy that designs waste out, built to undertake devastating global challenges such as climate change. It applies the framework that resources, products, and materials should be renewable, repurposable, reusable, to reduce environmental impact.
• Explore the circular economy and its application from our conversation with Emma Chow of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Define Compostable:

• Refers to a material's ability to disintegrate naturally back into the earth in forms of water, biomass, and carbon dioxide without any ecological harm. It is broken down through the process of bacteria or fungi.

• Refers to a material's ability to disintegrate naturally back into the earth in forms of water, biomass, and carbon dioxide without any ecological harm. It is broken down through the process of bacteria or fungi.

• Certain compostable products will not be able to be fully composted in a home compost system.
• Home compost is backyard compostable and uses natural elements to break down.
• Industrial compost relies on compost facilities where specific heat and moisture conditions are maintained to break down the material.

Define Biodegradable:

• Refers to the breakdown of materials in the environment.
• • The term biodegradable can be misleading as with long periods of time all materials will break away into smaller pieces, including plastics, and can be harmful to the environment.

• Refers to the breakdown of materials in the environment.
• • The term biodegradable can be misleading as with long periods of time all materials will break away into smaller pieces, including plastics, and can be harmful to the environment.

• The term biodegradable is not a true indicator of how sustainable a product is. That is why we focus on compostable products, which decompose within a specific period of time without any trace.
• Curious how TEALEAVES is minimizing waste and environmental impact through design and packaging?

• Biodiversity is at risk which affects food security, nutritional health, and species extinction. The loss of biodiversity is interrelated to climate change, as climate change disrupts ecosystems and destroys biodiversity, while biodiversity helps to reduce the negative effects havoced by climate change. 

•  Explore The Garden of Secrets, our initiative to protect biodiversity.
• Curious what the most influential minds in biodiversity discuss? Watch the World Biodiversity Forum, a TEALEAVES Session and Workshop.

• All TEALEAVES choices, big and small, from plant-based packaging, social impact projects, to strategic sourcing & blending are driven by our commitment to the conservation of our planet.

• We blend to make an actionable and positive difference so you have the ability to make the best choice for you, the planet, and the future.