Ethical and Environmental Policy

We regard Ethical Trading as central to what we do here at Tiny Teas. We believe in three main core values that define our company's ethos:

People: Tiny Teas aims to assist Kawangware Street Children & Youth Project put a comprehensive and sustainable community structure in place that offers street children, youth & widowed women in Kawangware slums ( Kenya) an alternative to street life that enables them to integrate back into mainstream society.

Furthermore, where possible, all our tea is sourced and packed by FairTrade and/or Ethical Tea Partnership certified suppliers.

Planet: Our packaging is made from recycled material and is hand made by the youth project. We endeavour to enforce a green and environmentally friendly working atmosphere in all we do.

Virtually all the cardboard boxes we use are second-hand. We collect them from nearby business and re-use them to pack our website, retail and wholesale orders.

To save paper, we endeavour to keep all our communications and invoicing electronic and avoid printing unnecessarily.

All our promotional and marketing materials, from leaflets to business cards are printed on 100% recycled pulp.

We use minimalistic packaging and keep away from plastics where possible.

Product: We provide a range of specialty loose leaf teas from the world over. Our carefully selected range of teas contains no artificial flavourings, colourings or preservatives. We prefer to keep our products as nature intended them to be, free from artificial nasties!

We want you to be happy that you are buying not only a premium tea but an ethical one too. That is why we only buy tea from the top 10% of tea estates in the world and select only those which maintain high ethical standards. Many of our teas are sourced from estates certified by the Ethical Tea Partnership, an organisation that is set up to regulate all facets of tea manufacture.

In areas where tea estates are not yet covered by the Ethical Tea Partnership, our suppliers ensure annual visits are carried out to confirm that socially and environmentally sound practices are firmly in place. This helps guarantee a happier work force being paid a fair wage and, therefore, a better quality cup.