Just a thumbs up to Flexi-Hex, a product I pulled out of a recent delivery box and was pleasantly surprised by. Rather than the usual plastic and bubble wrap that you find when opening a box of, let’s be honest about it, gin bottles, Flexi-Hex takes recycled paper and makes a kind of accordian style cardboard thing that does just as good a job of keeping deliverables protected.

They have a few products, actually, including lighter weight sleeves and pinch top boxes but it’s the flexible stuff that is both eye-catching and surprisingly fun to play with. The idea came from the founders wanting to transport surfboards around without having to resort to plastic and it’s grown from there. Anything that reduces plastic pollution is fine by me.

Hope you find some in your packaging soon!