Environmental Responsibility

Every detail is carefully chosen to ensure sustainability

Feeling Felt is committed to using materials with a low environmental impact that are recycled or natural, and recyclable, promoting an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. This is why we carefully select each material and supplier, ensuring they have the necessary certifications to guarantee the sustainability of what they produce. We have also organised our production with a short supply chain. This is also why 90% of our suppliers are located in Italy and 100% in Europe.

Recycled, natural and recyclable materials

- Felt made from 100% post-consumer plastic bottle recycling, GRS certified. The company is Italian and follows the 4sustainability protocol for the elimination of toxic and harmful substances.

- Natural cork or cork dyed with water-based colours, produced in Italy and REACH certified.

- Vegan solvent free leatherette , Italian and REACH, Fda and ZDHC certified.

- Ribbon from regenerated fibres. All the shoulder straps of our bags are made with a regenerated ribbon produced in Italy from recycled cotton and fibres from recycled used clothes and production waste.

- PLA, hemp and wood. Tags and loops on our backpacks, as well as our charms and our Whale Stand are printed with compostable PLA and Hemp or PLA and Wood filaments.

- Piñatex, a non-woven fabric made from pineapple leaf waste, produced by Ananas Anam, a B-Corp certified company.

- Leather production waste: For the cork collections, a backing produced using leather and latex waste was used. The manufacturer is based in Germany and is OEKO-TEX certified. They are also the world's first EMAS-certified producer of leather fibres.

- Fabric remnants: The face masks are made from remnants of locally recovered stock.

In order to minimise the problem of microplastics, we have decided to use recycled polyester only in products that do not require full washing but can be washed rarely, using a damp rag or sponge.

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Sustainable Packaging

The packaging is also designed to protect the environment.

- Boxes: We use kraft cardboard boxes made from at least 90% recycled cardboard and printed with water-based ink. Fully compostable and biodegradable. All the material used is FSC certified. The boxes are manufactured in Poland, and the company also declares that it complies with EU labour regulations.

- Tags: We use tags made from FSC-certified kraft paper.

- E-commerce bags: Our e-commerce bags are "Ok Compost" certified compostable bags made from corn starch. The boxes are manufactured in Poland, and the company declares that it complies with EU labour regulations.

Animals

We believe that environmental and social respect cannot exist without also preserving the animal world. That is why we are committed to creating products that do not contain any animal derived materials. At the moment all our products are vegan, except for the backing used in the Back to Nature collection which contains regenerated leather waste, used to give the product more rigidity and structure. We are looking to replace this material with a fully vegan alternative as soon as possible.

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Our daily commitment

For us, eco-sustainability is also part of our daily activities, which is why our lab was created using 90% of used furniture recovered from the disposal of offices. Even our sewing machines are all second-hand, purchased or donated by local craftsmen during the renovation of their machines or workshops. All keyrings are also made using scraps from the production of bags, optimising material use and fabric waste.