Hoffmann

If you want strength and recyclability, tin packaging is the obvious choice. Endlessly recyclable, it’s used to package everything from mints to pet food to coffee.

But there’s one major problem: it takes around 770 kilograms of coal to make one ton of steel, the material used for plating tin. Not content with the high-carbon cost, Swiss manufacturer Hoffmann has begun to produce its metal tins using CO2-reduced material and 100% renewable electricity. Carbon reductions and plastic-free packaging rolled into one? That’s the kind of progress we like to see.