St. Regis helps reduce Ceylon Tea Carbon Footprint with world’s first carbon-neutral bulk tea packaging

St. Regis helps reduce Ceylon Tea Carbon Footprint with world’s first carbon-neutral bulk tea packaging I Sri Lanka Latest News - Sri Lanka News Update

St. Regis Director Mr Ajith Fernando (centre) with Climate and Conservation Consortium Director/CEO Mr Sanith De S. Wijeyeratne (left) and St. Regis Head of Sales & Marketing Mr Chanaka Athukorala at the presentation of the Zero Carbon Product certificates.

A game-changing world-first in the sphere of packaging for bulk teas by Sri Lanka’s St. Regis Packaging can potentially enhance the environmental credentials of Ceylon Tea on the global stage. The inventor of the Rigid-T-sack that replaced plywood chests in the bulk packaging of large leaf teas in 1996, St. Regis has received the world’s first ZeroCarbon® Product Certification in its category for the Company’s Rigid-T-Sacks as well as for Multiwall paper sacks used for the packaging of Leafy and Grainy Teas.