Aqualtias is switching to ocean sourced plastic containers for its cannabis products. Photo: Aqualitas
A local cannabis grower is doing its part to make cannabis packaging more environmentally friendly.
Aqualitas who are based in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia (Queens) recently announced a partnership with Sana Packaging who specialize in making containers from recovered ocean plastic.
“While our facility is a low energy and low water consumer due to our LED lights and aquaponic systems, we wanted to do more,” said Josh Adler, Aqualitas’ Director of Operations. “We made it our mission to identify sustainable packaging across all of our product offerings.”
The first order of packaging from Sana Packaging used 2 tonnes of ocean reclaimed plastics.
“We’re excited to partner with Aqualitas and increase our footprint in the Canadian cannabis market,” says Ron Basak-Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Sana Packaging.
“We believe our 100% reclaimed ocean plastic cannabis packaging is a perfect fit for Aqualitas – a company that has proven its dedication to sustainability from seed to sale. With the help of our incredible customers, we have already removed more than 58 tonnes of plastic waste from our oceans.”
Myrna Gillis, CEO of Aqualitas, says, “As members of a coastal community, it’s no longer enough for us to simply keep packaging out of our oceans and landfills – we want to play an active role in cleaning it up.”
Aqualitas products around the country will begin transitioning to the new packaging over the next few months. The new packaging is already being used on Aqualitas’s five-gram containers for their medicinal cannabis. Reef, Aqualitas’s recreational brand of cannabis will start using the new packaging next month.
