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Durable yet lightweight, reduce shipping costs and carbon emissions. Ideal for businesses committed to sustainability.

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Practical, protective, and eco-friendly, our garment packaging are designed to store and protect clothing during storage and transportation.

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Safeguard fragile items with padded pockets and resealable bags to ensure maximum safety during handling and transport.

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Strong and durable, secure and ship your packaging without compromising sustainability.

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Compostable Mailers

These home compostable, cornstarch poly mailers are biodegradable, strong & waterproof. Great for shipping and partly made from plants.

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Compostable Mailers Size Guide
M L LL XL XL XXL
Length (inches) 12.8 15.2 16.5 17.9 17.9 23.4
Width (inches) 10 10.2 13 15.5 15.5 16.5
Flap (inches) 1.6 1.6 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2
Seals 1 1 2 2 2 2
Thickness (um) 63 63 63 63 81 63

Unit Quantity: 1 pack contains 100 Mailers

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Black Dirt Bags

The original Real Dirt Bag - a certified home compostable, fully biodegradable mailing satchel partly made from cornstarch.

Compostable packaging degrades over time, so we are only able to guarantee the performance and usability of these products for 6 months from date of purchase.

Find out how to compost our products.
Got a question? Check out our FAQS.

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THE DETAILS

We've produced over 100 million of these bags and are super-confident in their ability to do the job of protecting your goods! We also guarantee their quality.

A flat bag (i.e. no gusset, but some stretch) with a matt finish and printed graphics as per the image gallery.

• PROTECTION
Waterproof, tough & durable (tear resistant with some stretch)

• LABELLING
Labels will stick to these bags* and the lighter colors can be written on with a permanent marker.

• RE-USE
'Cut here to reuse' instructions are printed along the seal. Larger sizes have two seals to facilitate re-use.

• OPACITY
Our Black Dirt Bags are completely opaque, all other colors are slightly transparent.

• SIZES & SEALS
Seal with a fold-over flap and a peel-and-seal adhesive strip. Check the Sizing Guide as the bag thickness and number of seals vary by size.

• SHELF LIFE
Compostable packaging degrades over time, so we are only able to guarantee the performance and usability of these products for 6 months from date of purchase.

*We do extensive QA testing with our own labels and others, but can't guarantee that ALL labels will stick to these mailers.

• Made from completely biodegradable and compostable materials; corn starch, PLA (synthesised from corn) and PBAT (Polybutyrate Adipate Terephthalate).

• This combination of materials is non-toxic and contains no Phthalate or Bisphenol A (BPA).

• Certified free of GMO material.

• While these materials are biodegradable and compostable, they are not 100% renewable as the PBAT component is derived from petroleum-based materials. We are limited at the moment by the availability of suitable, sustainable raw materials that deliver the barrier and performance properties we need but are always testing resins made from an even greater amount of plant-based material – exciting times!

• CARBON NEUTRAL
We offset any carbon emission from this already low energy production process.

• Production uses approx. 30% renewable energy.

• Here for a good time, not a long time, these mailers will biodegrade in a home compost in 3-6 months and even quicker in a commercial composting facility.

• Safe for worms, worm farms and bokashi bins.

• Any remaining self-seal strips and labels (unless specified as compostable) should be removed before composting.

• CERTIFICATIONS
AS 5810 Home Compostable
OK Home Compost
Seedling AS 4736 Industrially Compostable

Diagram highlighting Better Packaging compostable poly mailer product lifecycle from the materials, how it's produced, it's usage and end of use disposal instructions

Customer Reviews

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Leonardo Amador
Great stuff!

Great stuff great company

Great review ;) Thanks Leonardo

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36nyne, LLC
LOVE THESE

Our customers love this product! We love what your'e doing to help the planet and be resourceful!

Legends! We love having you as a customer too - thank you for being so conscious in your packaging choices!

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Grateful farmer
Love that these are compostable

I feel great shipping out orders with these compostable mailers. I really appreciate that they are not chemically treated poly 🥰.

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Kirsty Campbell
comPOST Packs

We've been using BPCo's compostable satchels and labels for a few years now and the quality is so great! Such an easy company to work with for custom orders and we're so glad there is finally a better environmental alternative. Our customers love receiving their packages in BPCo satchels too. Keep up the fabulous work! xx

Thanks so much Kirsty, its such a pleasure to be able to make beautiful packaging for incredible brands like yours.

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woof1
woof1

I absolutely LOVE these compost packs. Better Packaging truly makes you feel better, and they are just so beautiful! So light to touch and yet tough when filled with our products. I'm so happy we have made the switch. We use both the small and medium size and find they fit a lot more in than we expected!!
Molly @riverandcoau

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