Our Story

After the whale woke us up we learned that plastic is a mildly toxic synthetic chemical. It’s easy to assume that plastic is inert like glass but now we know that plastic leaches pthalates and other chemicals into water and oils that make up most products. Plastic has a half life measured in hundreds or even thousands of years. When plastic eventually breaks down into sand-like particles, it still leaches its chemical load.

What was most troubling to us was that so much of the natural industry is focused on natural and chemical-free products, yet their packaging is contaminating their products with synthetic hormone and cancer causing chemicals. Chemical contamination is precisely the opposite of what organic stands for. We had to find a non-toxic, sustainable packaging alternative to plastic.

The packaging industry is dominated by plastic. Manufacturers know that their customers want price and sustainability but sustainability costs more. Marketing costs less than genuine sustainable packaging. Therefore, the modern marketing playbook accents the positive as much as possible. Directing attention to small improvements and promoting them as major breakthroughs is common. Deception ranges from minor to outright lying. Wonderful slogans prevail. The problem is that few, genuine solutions exist. Even today's bioplastic packaging is very questionable, in spite of claims that it is "100% plant-based and non-toxic.

Eco Vision Packaging is focused on tangible products that deliver genuine sustainability, not illusion. We needed physically sustainable packaging, so we had to make it ourselves. Our first development was the paper Eco Jar in 2008 and then the paper Eco Tube packages in 2009. Since then, we have developed several more sustainable packaging options and are making them available to you.