Sustainability

Sustainability · By the numbers

We've cared about this since day one.
Here's what that actually adds up to.

Plenty of brands say "sustainable." So we pulled our real numbers — every book we've made since 2020 — and did the math conservatively. Nothing rounded up. No carbon-offset accounting. No greenwashing. Just the cumulative impact of a small team making the harder, better choice, order after order.

Units
54.9km
of recycled ribbon sewn into our books
Stacked end to end, that's six Mount Everests, one on top of the next.
Recycled plastic ribbon — never virgin.
6,000m²
of plastic shrink wrap we never used
The industry shrink-wraps every book at the factory. We don't — that's nearly four hockey rinks of plastic film avoided.
No factory shrink wrap. Not on a single book.
1.36tonnes
of plastic bubble mailers avoided
We ship plastic-free at both ends. That's roughly the weight of a car in bubble mailers kept out of the waste stream.
No plastic bubble mailers, ever.
2,100m²
of shipping paper — 100% recycled
Even the paperwork counts. Every label and packing slip is 100% post-consumer recycled — about eight tennis courts of paper, and not one new tree.
Zero virgin fibre. Zero new trees.
77,000+

Real cloth. Not plastic pretending to be leather.

The industry's "premium" covers are usually faux leather — which is just polyurethane plastic with a fancy name. Ours are FSC-certified bookcloth: natural, responsibly sourced, and built to last decades.

Ours: FSC-certified cloth  ·  Theirs: plastic "faux leather"

More than 77,000 books wrapped in genuine FSC-certified cloth since 2020 — a deliberately conservative count (we left out every cover we couldn't verify).

No greenwashing. Just the receipts.

We're not a multinational buying our way to a green logo. We're a small business that decided, from the very first order, to do things the right way — even when it costs more and takes longer. Every number on this page is counted straight from our own records and rounded down. This is what we've done so far. We're just getting started.

Figures cover Oct 2020 – Jun 2026, drawn from our own production and shipping records and held intentionally conservative.