Our products - Sustainably Sourced Tea
What’s the difference between Certified Organic tea and sustainably sourced tea?
Sustainably Sourced“Sustainably sourced” is a broad term for products that carry any one of 17 accreditations. This includes Fairtrade and/or Certified Organic. Certified OrganicCertified Organic is just one type of accreditation awarded to products
How do you maintain ethical sourcing when it comes to wages and living conditions for tea farms and factory workers alike?
To ensure that our teaware is sourced ethically we regularly monitor the working conditions within our factories. At a minimum of every 2 years, we conduct third-party audits to the standards of SMETA or BSCI. We won’t continue working with suppliers
How do you measure 'sustainably sourced'?
We only source accredited ingredients from the start. We look for a SUSO (sustainably sourced) marking, if it doesn’t have it we don’t buy it or we work with our supplier to achieve the correct accreditations. Case and point was our recent project to
Why did you change to sustainably sourced ingredients in your teas? How does this impact my favourite brews?
As a brand that puts people and the planet first, it is incredibly important to us that our teas have a big flavour impact, and a lighter environmental one. The process of making our teas more sustainable was a journey we began in 2018. We’ve reviewe