Samovar goes green with eco-friendly packaging
Samovar, a tea retailer with three stores in San Francisco, has introduced containers made entirely from compostable material for its full line of teas. The new packaging uses post-consumer recycled cardboard for its exterior shell, water based inks, and wood-based fiber material. Samovar is the first tea company to introduce a sustainable container that, if composted, would turn to soil within a couple of months. According to owner Jesse Jacobs, the idea was to find a packaging solution that would biodegrade just like the tea leaves, with a vastly smaller carbon footprint than conventional containers.