HeapsGood

HeapsGood Packaging HQ is located in Melbourne at 15 Nelson Street, Moorabbin. We're 100% Aussie-owned and operated.

Our compostable shipping mailers are made from a combination of cornstarch, PLA (vegetable-based plastic material) and PBAT (composting co-polymer).
Want to learn more? Read our HeapsGood blog post on PBAT, which explains the key ingredients used in compostable packaging.

Get ready for some sciencey speak! All compostable products are technically biodegradable, but not all biodegradable products are compostable. Both of them will break down in the presence of microorganisms, fungi, or bacteria, but products that are certified 'compostable' according to actual Australian or international standards will break down without any nasty toxicity within a dedicated timeframe. Just because something says it's 'biodegradable', doesn't mean it's guaranteed to do the same.

Phew. You can read more about the differences between biodegradable and compostable packaging here, if you enjoyed us talking science at you.

We believe that home and industrial composting will become key environmental processes in the future circular economy, similar to how recycling's become just another thing we do over the last 30 years. Mainstream composting will help us reduce the amount of food and packaging heading to landfill, the methane productions it causes, and temper single-use plastic pollution. Heaps of writing by science-types supports this perspective, which is (thankfully) informing government policies and regulations in Oz.

TLDR; Yes! Compostable packaging is great, and will get a lot better as technology continues to develop.

Compostable packaging can only be recycled if it's certified compostable and recyclable. For eggsample, our Hex Wrap can be both composted and recycled. Don't recycle products that are only compostable like our HeapsGood Ecomailers – they're only for the compost!

Yep, it's true. We've teamed up with Ecologi to plant a tree for every order you place with us. To learn more about the initiative, check Ecologi out here.