ETHICS & SUSTAINABILITY

Our Vision

Where do you print your fabrics?

 We print all of our fabrics digitally with Palm Printing Co Bali, https://www.palmprinting.co/

We will always choose to digitally print our fabrics as this is the most environmentally sustainable method of printing.

Digital fabric printing allows us to print the precise amount of fabric we need to complete an order and this prevents excess fabric wastage unlike many hand methods. It is also kind to our printing team as they are not exposed to dangerous conditions and chemicals that screen printing poses.

Digital fabric printing also involves no water use or wastage, either pre, during or post printing unlike screen printing which has had many dubious factories pouring their waste water into local Bali rivers: https://seminyaktimes.com/denpasar-closes-polluting-screen-printing-business-on-tukad-badung/

We care about the communities in which Hazel & Folk is produced. We will always choose the most sustainable methods of production for the environment, staff and our customers.

Oeko Tek Certified Inks 

 We digitally print all of our fabrics with high grade German inks that are Oeko Tex Eco Passport Certified Inks. 

ECO PASSPORT inks have been tested for harmful substances in critical concentrations as listed in the ECO PASSPORT standard. The label also gives transparent proof of which articles meet the criteria for ecologically responsible textile manufacture. Once per year, OEKO-TEX® updates the banned substances and limit values and expands them to include new scientific findings or statutory requirements.

To read more about the ECO PASSPORT fabric inks, please see:

https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/our-standards/eco-passport-by-oeko-tex

Sustainable mindset

We will always seek the most sustainable fabrics available to us for each collection and prefer to use 100% natural fibre fabrics where possible and when available.

We are committed to avoiding the use of plastic where possible and we only use coconut buttons for our pieces which are made from recycled coconut shells.

Do you use animal products in production?

We choose not to work with animal products such as leather, feathers, silk, fur of any kind (animal or synthetic), wool, cashmere, as we are committed to having a cruelty-free mindset in all of our products.

For accessories such as buttons, we source coconut buttons made from recycled coconut husks or buttons derived from crushed shell fragments found in sand.

Is my order packaged sustainably?

Your order is wrapped in thick grade recycled crafts paper with swing tags made from recycled paper.  We will not pack your order in plastic wrapping or use poly based ribbons that will end up being thrown out.

If your order is shipped using Australia Post, we will send your order in a strong biodegradable mailer that is 100% home-compostable shipping mailer and made from 70-80% PBAT (a co-polymer that is completely compostable) and 20-30% PLA (which is another way of saying cornstarch) made by www.heropackaging.com. 

How do we minimise our carbon footprint?

 One of the most efficient ways we have reduced our carbon footprint is by shipping most of our pieces direct from our Bali studio as soon as they have been freshly finished by our tailors, instead of shipping large boxes of stock to the Gold Coast (Australia) studio to then unpack, re-pack and send to our customers worldwide.

This efficient system has not only saved carbon by omitting unnecessary double transport in flights and transport to deliver bulk stock, but it has also saved on copious amounts of packaging used to package bulk amounts of items.