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New fairtrade postcards printed with bio-degradable inks

Monday, October 26th, 2015
FairMail's new fairtrade postcard collection

FairMail’s new fairtrade postcard collection

We are very excited to share with you FairMail’s new postcard collection! Just about everything about them is good. The colourful designs with typewriter texts, the inspiring story behind each photo and now also their environmental credentials as they are printed with vegetable based inks! Seriously, does it get any better than that?

The 36 new card designs cover a wide range of card occasions like birthday, good luck, love, get well soon, good trip, thank you, congratulations, condolence and new home.

Our Dutch publisher Context Cards was só satisfied with the print quality of the bio-degradable inks that we hope they will decide to use bio-inks for all other card ranges as well. Hurray, a great victory for Mother Nature!

Get hold of the new cards in our webshop by clicking here!

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FairMail 2012 Calendar almost sold out!

Friday, December 30th, 2011
FairMail's 2012 fair trade calendar

FairMail's 2012 fair trade calendar

FairMail’s new 2012 fair trade calendar (click here for webversion) just arrived and almost sold out straight away!

The big calendar has 12 pictures made by the teenagers from FairMail Peru. Each month contains a different picture and a personal story and picture of the teenager who took that month’s beautiful pictures.  50% of the profit of the sale goes to the teenagers personal education fund.

Also nice to know is that the calendar is printed with biodegradable ink, on FSC certified paper at a printer that off-sets its CO2 emissions.

After the 2011 calendar already sold out in September we printed twice as much this year. But still after the pre-orders there are currently only 145 calendars left. So if you want to be sure you won’t be late again this year for this great calendar, just order on-line through FairMail’s webshop.

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FairMail cards printed with biodegradable ink

Friday, December 9th, 2011

FairMail believes that besides the people and the profit also the planet should benefit from its activities. Also regarding the environment FairMail wants to be the 100% responsable alternative greeting card! So what does that mean in practice?

In January 2011 the first FairMail cards where printed using so called bio-inkts. That means that the ink used is based on vegetable oils like line seed and soy oil. You might never have thought about it but conventional inks use mineral oils as basis and so aren’t bio degradable plus make use of a non renewable resource!

Besides that our envelopes and cards are printed on FSC certified paper. That means the woodpulp comes from sustainably managed forests that comply with the criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Since spring of 2009 FairMail uses cello bags made from biodegradablecorn starch to pack our cards. So after unpacking your card you can throw it on the compost heap!

The next step for FairMail is printing the cards closer to the end used. That way we can reduce the transport distance and the CO2 emision.

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FairMail now 100% biodegradable

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Good news for the planet: FairMail is now 100% biodegradable.

The cello bags we use to pack our folded greeting cards are now made from biodegradable corn starch. So after unpacking your card you can chuck it on the compost heap to fertilize your garden.

FairMail cards where already printed on FSC certified paper and the envelopes made of recycled paper. The only thing missing now is to persuade our Peruvian printer to switch to soy based bio-inks.

That might still take a little while, but you bet we want to give it a shot. So FairMail doesn’t only have a good social story, but, so the environment also benefits if people buy FairMail cards in stead of ordinary cards.

Just look at how happy that makes our card packers!

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