How Maeve's Sustainable Chocolate Helps the Planet

Maeve’s twist wraps are 100% compostable and our gift boxes and truffle bar wrappers use 100% recyclable packaging. We also only use water-based, non-toxic inks on packaging.

• Landfill waste cut by 28% in 3 years
• We compost everything we can throughout our facility. This year we composted 28 tons (a 45% increase in 3 years!)
• Recycling 94 tons in a year and up 6% overall in the past 3 years. We have recycled 13.5 tons of flexible plastics since we started recycling flexible plastics in 2023.
• We get creative about how we recycle, for example, in one year, we've managed to recycle: batteries (40 lbs), PPE (20,000+ gloves and hairnets), and 800 lbs of nut butter buckets.
• Almost 10,000 pounds of imperfect factory seconds make their way from our Flagship store to happy homes each year.

One mile of driving emits about one pound of CO2. In order to reduce carbon emission by about 30 MT CO2 per year, our office staff works from home 3 days a week.

We work with PSE to convert our energy usage to renewable sources. We successfully transitioned 100% of electricity use to wind-based renewable energy, avoiding emissions equivalent to:

• 153 homes' electricity use for one year
• 4,267,000 miles driven by an electric car

• Support for forest-positive cocoa landscapes and replanting. Over 1,400 trees have been planted to recognize employee milestones like birthdays, new hires and babies born.
• We are developing a new tree nursery and supplying agroforestry seedlings to cocoa farmers in Ghana.

Our facility uses 100% renewable natural gas sourced from a Washington State landfill.