Sustainability in Packing & Shipping

Shipping & Handling Sustainability

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100% Biodegradable Packing Peanuts

The packing peanuts we use to keep your tea and honey safe during transit are 100% biodegradable. Instead of sticking around forever like styrofoam packing peanuts, our biodegradable fill will break down within a few hours to days, leaving behind no microplastics, toxic residue, or chemicals.

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65% Post-Consumer Plastic Bubble Wrap

You may have noticed that our bubble wrap is green! That's because all the bubble wrap we use is either made from 65% post-consumer plastic or reused and repurposed from shipments we receive.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Incentives & Rewards for Eco-Friendly Customers

hands holding an empty and a full honey jar to symbolize the one-for-one 10% discount on honey jar returns to encourage sustainability

10% off a new jar of honey when you return your clean, dry and empty jar

We exchange our 12 and 19 ounce honey jars for a new jar at a 10% discount*, then sanitize the jars and use them again! This cuts back on waste AND puts money back in your pocket.

*Discount available in-store only

Refilling a Matcha Wakatake Tin for 10% off to encourage sustainability!

10% off loose tea and matcha refills

Bring your own container or refill your 2oz bag or tin and enjoy 10% off* for saving packaging and the planet!

*Discount available only in-store

photo of reusable Saratoga Tea & Honey iced tea cup filled with green tea and a bioplastic straw

$0.50 off to-go teas in your own cup

Bring your own cup for $0.50 off your cup of hot or iced tea* from the bar!

*Our straws are also an agave fiber based bioplastic!

Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Branded Steepware Tea Tumbler for To-Go Tea on-the-go at Watkins Glen State Park

Up to 50% off to-go tea in your Saratoga Tea & Honey Tumbler

We offer a steep discount in our branded tumblers (currently out of stock - check back soon!)! These awesome stainless steel tumblers keep tea hot for 8-10 hours and cold for up to 20. This discount is all part of our effort to reduce single-use plastic waste!

Have Other Ideas for How We Can Bee More Sustainable? Drop us a Line!