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More Environmentally-friendly packaging for sustainable products

  • Mar 02, 2024
  • Environmental
  • ESG Updates

Shipping our products and supplies safely and securely is paramount at Mint; it's a big part of what we do. Two employees have introduced a way to make this important part of the Mint’s business more environmentally-friendly and sustainable.

Mint employees Sureyya Firat Karaaslan and René Guitard, worked with suppliers to adopt cotton cloth—reusable, sustainable, and biodegradable—as an alternative packaging to protect the plastic CD lenses used for coin sets.

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Mint employees Sureyya Firat Karaaslan and René Guitard, worked with suppliers to adopt cotton cloth—reusable, sustainable, and biodegradable—as an alternative packaging to protect the plastic CD lenses used for coin sets.

Shipping our products and supplies safely and securely is paramount at Mint; it's a big part of what we do. Two employees have introduced a way to make this important part of the Mint’s business more environmentally-friendly and sustainable.

Mint employees Sureyya Firat Karaaslan and René Guitard, worked with suppliers to adopt cotton cloth—reusable, sustainable, and biodegradable—as an alternative packaging to protect the plastic CD lenses used for coin sets.

Popular coin sets, like the 2024 Fine Silver Proof Set celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force, are protected in plastic CD lenses. These lenses are now shipped in reusable, sustainable cotton cloth instead of plastic foam sheets, reducing waste from the Mint’s packaging materials. Popular coin sets, like the 2024 Fine Silver Proof Set celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force, are protected in plastic CD lenses. These lenses are now shipped in reusable, sustainable cotton cloth instead of plastic foam sheets, reducing waste from the Mint’s packaging materials.
Cloth packaging