Currently, the big Dresden Fridays for Future - Demo is starting in the Alaunpark, like everywhere in the world today.
The people of Dresden have come up with a special start time for it, start is 5 to 12, very appropriate!
Since Friday at noon is our most important working time in the shop, we don't go along - but do something that  is just as important: Today we implement concrete steps to protect the environment in our online shop!

From today on we only buy products from the company Biobiene which only have plastic-free packaging products in their range, which also have to meet high environmental standards.

We use up any remaining packaging materials such as adhesive tape and bubble wrap bags for the customers of our Amazon shop. We no longer use this for our own shop, nor are we allowed to, as we had to sign a corresponding commitment for plastic-free shipping in order to be awarded the seal.

• Instead of packing tape from Tesa, we then use this: https://www.biobiene.com/papier-packband-klebeband-50mm-x-50m-braun-1-rolle.html?number=FSP-MUE4254
  Then our customers can also finally put the entire package in the waste paper without pre-treatment.
• Glass containers must be well padded, we hereby replace the bubble wrap: https://www.biobiene.com/papierpolstertaschen-sumo-gr.-3 /c-145x215mm-hk-100-stueck-lpsu1513.html?number=SU1513 
  If it is not necessary for shipping safety, these will not be taped up, then customers can continue to use them.
• For the padding, we then use instead of padding film from the roll this: https://www.biobiene.com/noppenpapier-30cm-x-100m-120g/m2-noppenpolsterpapier-1-rolle.html
• You can delight your compost heap in the future with our packaging chips: https://www.biobiene.com/verpackungschips-hellbraun-small-biobiene-kompostierbar-l-bvcs-1.html?number=BVCS-1
• And even customers from Switzerland, who need separate bags for customs documents, will get the goods plastic-free in the future: https://www.biobiene.com/lieferscheintaschen-din-c5-gruen-aus-papier-250-stueck-fsppc5-bb.html

We can continue to use our existing cardboard boxes, which have always been have always been environmentally friendly and FSC-certified. However we will also buy them from Biobiene after they are used up, if only to from Biobiene, if only to support this innovative and innovative and forward-looking company even more.

Natural cosmetics free samples will no longer be available without being asked, as they could be could be interpreted as packaging material, which would be in which would contradict our commitment to plastic-free customers can now actively order them. order them.
However, when the stock is used up, we will not order any more order new ones, as it is actually madness in terms of the environment to the environment, i.e. a non-recyclable plastic bag plus a colourfully printed flyer printed flyer for 3 ml cosmetics!

Point 5 to 12 I will make the click for the first order order - if that's not a good substitute for taking part in the demo today! the demo today!

Supplement 02.10.2019
Today this documentary came on Arte: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/072571-000-A/die-ausbeutung-der-urwaelder/
(Link has since been changed to Youtube, no longer available in the Artemediathek. no longer available)
I am at a loss for words with so much rip-off and fraud
. We also have packaging with the imprint "FSC Mix" in stock. which, as you can read here, is completely worthless.
What a scam. And what good fortune that we already made the weeks ago to switch to Biobiene weeks ago.
After the doc, I checked the Biobiene materials already in stock. checked:
They either carry the Blue Angel or the Eco-Signet of the German corrugated board industry. No FSC, fortunately!
Some don't have a label, which is not necessarily a bad thing or even a good thing. often even a good thing. This is the case when a small manufacturer had an innovative idea, but could not afford the often horrendous licence fees from certification organisations. certification organisations. Like, for example, the new carton from Biobiene, the partly made of grass. There is no seal of approval for this unique new idea, nor will there be one in the future.

My experience in general, no matter whether it's about organic seals, vegan seals or anything else:
A small manufacturer from Germany with a direct contact person, who ideally also has a degree in the field of environmental protection, is much more reliable than large companies that pay a lot of money for a seal such as FSC, organic or vegan labels for a lot of money without really delivering quality! quality!
In my experience it is extremely unlikely that e.g. biologist, for example, who develops his products himself, would cheat his cheats his customers. In contrast, I have a case where a popular Dutch manufacturer has chicken slaughterhouse waste vegan certified certified (with the ever-popular vegan flower from the Vegan Society England) already revealed itself!
Statisticians like to say, don't trust any study that you haven't falsified yourself. In variation, one could say, don't trust a certificate no certificate that you have not falsified yourself.
In our shop, we only trust direct contact with small, reliable manufacturers, reliable manufacturers.

Another addendum 20.02.2021:

Online shops must annually report the report the packaging quantities of the previous year to the state. According to this then calculated how much ZENTEK licence fees we have to pay. Plastic is of course particularly expensive.
This time for the first time in our history: Reporting for Plastic 0 kg!