Our impact, so far

We've been keeping track.

"Sustainable" is a word that gets used a lot. The honest thing, we figured, was to keep track and show our work. Every book we've bound since 2020, every order we've packed, and all the plastic we found ways around. These are the real numbers, and we've been hard on ourselves with them. When we weren't sure, we rounded down.

Counted, not estimated

Sustainability, by the numbers.

55km

of recycled ribbon sewn into our books

Six Mount Everests, stacked.

Recycled ribbon, never virgin

6,000m²

of plastic shrink wrap we never used

Nearly four hockey rinks of film.

No factory shrink wrap, ever

1.36tonnes

of plastic bubble mailers we skipped

Roughly the weight of a car.

No plastic mailers, both ends

2,100m²

of shipping paper, all 100% recycled

About eight tennis courts.

Zero virgin fibre, zero new trees

100%

of our covers are genuine cloth. What others call "premium" is usually faux leather, which is just plastic with a nicer name. Ours is FSC-certified bookcloth, natural and responsibly sourced.

Cloth ages beautifully. Plastic flakes into microplastics as it breaks down.

FSC-certified bookcloth

Every figure is counted straight from our own production and shipping records, then rounded down. No estimates dressed up as data.

No greenwashing. Just the receipts.

None of this makes us perfect, and we won't pretend otherwise. We're a small team in Coquitlam trying to make things worth keeping while leaving as little behind as we can. There's further to go, and we'll keep at it. But this is what the last few years add up to, and honestly, we're proud of it.