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This month we interviewed our lovely decent packaging customer, Toastie. With their well established social media presence, I'm sure you have already heard of Toastie. Based in Picton and now Ohakune, they are taking over the sandwich scene by creating delicious toasties you need to try. Walking into their store you’ll be greeted by the iconic “ALWAYS BLOW ON THE TOASTIE” neon light. If you’re...

This November we turn 9, and with that, it's a nice time to reflect on the year that's been. While the last 9 years have been challenging and exciting in their own way, the last 2 years certainly have thrown up different challenges.  The last year has felt like a bit of a blur with lockdowns, ongoing uncertainty and moving goalposts. However, we achieved a fair few things that we're really...

'Toha Kai' to share food. Based in Ōtautahi, you will find them packing boxes with excess quality produce for delivery, hosting cooking workshops and building relationships throughout Waitaha. All with the aim of establishing systems to support our community to thrive.  Toha Kai’s focus is to enable equitable access to healthy, locally grown and climate appropriate kai while aiming to develop ...

The amount of food waste in New Zealand is tragic, but it becomes truly heartbreaking when you look at the scale of food poverty. Everybody Eats, a locally-based, not-for-profit, founded by Nick Loosley and works to combat food waste and alleviate food poverty by providing a nutritious three-course meal to Kiwis who often have to go without, using food that would otherwise be thrown away.  Eve...

Bowl and Arrow started in 2015 with two friends, Hannah and Leisha, and a passion for making smoothie bowls and wholefoods accessible to NZ. Bowl and Arrow is somewhere you can come to get a healthy and premium quality grab and go option, that is nutritious and made with all whole, fresh and high-quality ingredients all wrapped up in 100% compostable packaging. We here at decent packaging feel...

Becky is a freelance designer and illustrator currently working under the studio name MAYK. Becky is from Auckland and studied Fine Arts at Ilam in Christchurch. Her design career began in Wanaka where she formed her own freelance design business before relocating back to the North. Working in contract as well as full-time positions, Becky picked up various design and advertising roles for bou...

We've dropped the price on a number of products, check them out here.  

We're lucky to have an amazing community of customers here at decent packaging. We wanted to create a series to promote a few Auckland businesses opening safely for takeaways during Level 3.These past couple of weeks have been tough, but we are ready to get out and support our local community. Supporting doesn't only mean spending money – a follow on social media or a message with positive feed...

We're lucky to have an amazing community of customers here at decent packaging. We wanted to create a series to promote the businesses opening safely for takeaways during level 3. These past couple of weeks have been tough, but we are ready to get out and support our local community. Supporting doesn't only mean spending money, please click the images below to give each business a follow on so...

At decent packaging, we strongly believe in focusing on the end of life for all our products, just as much as the fit for purpose design for our customers. Because, unfortunately, we’re in a global waste crisis. Despite everyone’s best efforts, most plastics are not recycled, landfills are full of food waste, and inconsistencies in waste management infrastructure is causing major confusion.  W...

As part of understanding how the Full Package can help businesses redirect their waste, we worked with London residents, James and Mat from Rosslyn Coffee to measure the impact The Full Package has been having on their Cafe.

We caught up with Tane from Proof and Stock Coffee Roasters who have been roasting and brewing coffee in New Plymouth for over three years now. More recently they established their own composting facility to help close the loop on their Innocent Packaging cups, food waste and other organics onsite — not only lowering their carbon footprint but also creating organic worm filled goodness for the ...