Greetings to the environment.

By purchasing a papercrush, you're also doing the environment a favor.

Because with your order, you support the reforestation of mangrove forests in Madagascar. We have already planted over 200,000 mangrove trees.

Our papercrush products are made from high-quality paper, which we have produced as sustainably as possible. And, of course, we produce under fair and responsible working conditions.

papercrush and sustainability

Give away moments of happiness without knowing how and where our paper crushes are made? That doesn't work for us. Sustainability, transparency and environmental protection are a matter of course for us. We keep our impact as small as possible so that you can give away carefree moments of happiness with a clear conscience.

You buy a card - we plant trees.

With your purchase, you support the reforestation of mangrove forests in Madagascar. We have already planted over 200,000 mangrove trees. For this, we work together with the internationally renowned reforestation network Eden Reforestation Projects. The current number of our planted trees can be viewed at any time on our partner's website.

Mangrove trees are true climate protectors, storing approximately three to five times as much CO2 as a tree in our latitudes – a total of about 300 kg during their lifespan of approximately 25 years. In addition, the trees' water roots serve as an important breeding ground, nursery, and habitat for many rare fish, reptiles, birds, and even land-dwelling mammals. The trees also protect the coast from erosion and land loss.

Our trees are planted in structurally severely underdeveloped and impoverished regions of Madagascar by the local population. The workers receive a fair income and permanent employment. This allows them not only to afford everyday necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, and medicine, but also means they don't have to destroy their environment to survive, for example, by felling trees for construction purposes, fuel, heating, and agriculture.

We use paper from responsible sources.

Our papercrush products are made from high-quality paper, produced as sustainably as possible. The paper for our papercrush products comes from FSC-certified forests and/or recycled material, as well as material from controlled sources. FSC-certified or post-consumer recycled material is used either at a minimum of 70% or an equivalent amount is used in the production process to manufacture the paper for our papercrush products.

We manufacture under fair and responsible working conditions.

Hand on heart: Every papercrush is handmade. We still cut out the individual parts of our cards with a laser machine. From then on, we assemble everything with loving handwork. Naturally, under sustainable, fair and responsible working conditions in our manufactories in Vietnam. We know the manufactories we work with personally and have personally witnessed the fair working conditions on site. Of course, we pay our manufactories and the workers fair prices for the demanding work. Because assembling a papercrush is delicate handwork and takes up to 30 minutes.

Where we still need to improve.

Unfortunately, going completely plastic-free isn't possible yet: To ensure our papercrush products arrive in Germany undamaged and dry, they are currently still packaged in a transparent and recyclable plastic film – until we find a better alternative. We have already looked at many other options – from cellophane to bioplastics made from corn or potato starch, such as PLA plastics. However, these alternatives also have disadvantages: they require a lot of land and energy for cultivation and can only be broken down by special processes in industrial composting facilities. Many composting plants are not equipped for this, with the result that the waste ends up as residual waste in incineration plants.

Learn more about our partner Eden Projects

Eden Reforestation Projects x papercrush