Sustainable Retail Packaging Made With Seaweed (original) (raw)

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A massive leap towards a future where virgin materials are derived from restorative ingredients

Stock Sway Polybags

Protects products from the factory to the doorstep. Available at low volumes in a variety of stock sizes.

Stock Sway Die Cut Handle Bags

Circular solution for retail, events, and beyond. Low-volume availability in select sizes with a die cut handle.

Complete Customization

For large brands with global supply chains. Adopt this innovation with a custom pilot and scale-up plan.

Start a Seaweed Packaging Project

Radical collaboration with brands like yours paves the way for a future in which packaging is derived from seaweed. The brands that catalyze this change are visionary — embracing next-generation materials today because they know our planet, people, and wildlife can't afford a future filled with plastic.

Adopted by Leading Brands

Learn how seaweed-based materials can meet the demands of global supply chains while delivering on performance, efficiency, and circularity.

Why We Love Seaweed

Brands seeking plastic alternatives have options: corn, sugarcane, potatoes, cassava, rice, wood chips, and more are used as ingredients in commercially available, industrially compostable packaging. However, these options are often conventionally grown, with little insight into production practices or the land-use conversion implications of the raw materials used.

Our research has shown that many biobased inputs – particularly when conventionally grown – pose significant environmental challenges, and some are even more harmful than the fossil fuels they replace.

Ingredient Comparison

Seaweed is truly unique in its spectrum of value chain benefits. Responsible seaweed cultivation can regenerate marine ecosystems, mitigate ocean acidification, and support coastal communities threatened by climate change and overfishing.

New science suggests that seaweed can also sequester substantial amounts of carbon. In this way, packaging made with seaweed has the potential to actively replenish ecosystems rather than deplete.

Explore our analysis of the environmental impact of seaweed compared to other bioplastic inputs.

What’s the Impact of Seaweed in a Sway Bag?

Seaweed is Sway’s superhero ingredient, and for good reason. Even a little goes a long way! Toggle to learn how seaweed helps regenerate ecosystems.

ABSORB

0 lbs of carbon

through seaweed farming

CLEAN

0 lbs of water pollutants

including nitrogen and phosphorous

PROTECT

0 acres of habitat

boosting biodiversity

* Calculations based on an average-sized bag. Contact us to understand your order’s impact.

We are thrilled to partner with Sway, a biomaterial innovation company dedicated to moving beyond sustainability and towards regeneration.

Sway seeks to extend the ocean's inherent generosity by pairing seaweed's benevolent qualities with advanced materials science. They are designing next-generation replacements for plastic that replenish seas, soils, and coastal communities.

The seaweed-derived resins and flexible films they are developing are the real deal.

Sway recognizes that scaling seaweed production must be done holistically to prioritize this feedstock’s social and ecological potential.

Sway actively partners with various academic, research, and nonprofit organizations to ensure their success is interlinked with thriving communities and ocean health. Their partners include Lonely Whale, Environmental Defense Fund, 5 Gyres, Seatrees, Native Conservancy, Oceans 2050, the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and more.

With home and industrial compostability as a mandate for Sway’s entire product portfolio, they rigorously test their films across various compostability and biodegradability standards.

Sway Firstwave™

A 100% biobased material, made primarily with regenerative seaweed. This groundbreaking film is being used as a circular alternative to LDPE plastic in Retail Boxes with Sway Windows.

Sway TPSea Flex™

A majority biobased film, made from seaweed, plants, and compostable polymers. This flexible film is being used as a circular replacement for LDPE plastic in Sway Polybags and Die Cut Handle Bags.

Recent Wins in the World of Seaweed Packaging

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