We’ve always wanted our Barista range to be enjoyed by as many people as possible and creating a gluten-free recipe has been a project we’ve been working on for a while to ensure we’re creating a premium product that performs as well, if not better, than our OG recipe.

You can buy a bundle of 10 mailers bags, about 3 months supply, on our website.

Yes, but we’re subsidising the cost and selling them to you at 50% of the price we pay for them to help facilitate this process as much as we can.

Put the empty BIB bags of Oat, and piercer in the Minor Figures mailer bag - max 9 of them - and drop the parcel at your local Royal Mail office, or through a post box if it’s thin enough.PLEASE make sure that no jubilee clip, no metal, no tube, and no cardboard go into the mailer bag because they won’t be processed and/or will lower the quality of the recycled product.

So that the whole mailer bag weighs under 1,000g - which is the maximum weight limit for Royal Mail 2nd class pre-paid returns.

You don’t need to clean them, but make sure to squeeze the last drops of Oat out before placing it in the mailer bag along with the piercer.

Any liquid remaining in the bag will increase its weight and limit the number of bags you’re able to return in one mailer bag.Additionally, the recycling process only allows for 50% moisture level (30g of liquid per Oat bag) before it goes through the pretreatment drying process and gets recycled - which isn’t much.

The Enval recycling center is located some 130km from London. The recycling bags go into the microwave oven at 600° C to be pyrolyzed into oil, gas and aluminium.The gas created in the process is used to power the Enval plant. The oil can be used for fuel, and tests are under way to use it to make recycled plastics and adhesives. The aluminium comes out as aluminium flake and is 99% pure so this goes back into foil. 

Plant-based milks are light sensitive and aluminium serves as a light protecting barrier, ensuring it stays fresh and tasty.

- The BIB creates 42% less carbon emissions than the same amount of Oat packaged in TetraPaks.

- 1L BIB = 225g CO2e1L
- Tetra = 388g CO2e. 
This means a 10L BIB of Barista Oat has the same carbon footprint as a 6L case of Barista Oat.

- BIB uses 76% less packaging material than Tetra.

Thin plastics and plastic aluminium laminates and silicon can be recycled but currently aren’t because of the costs associated with the collection, processing and supply chain required to recycle the output materials.

Recycling our Barista Oat 10L doesn’t only offer a continued life of the materials, it also reduces the End-Of-Life carbon footprint by 17% compared with kerbside to landfill collection alternatives, and by 97% compared to Tetra kerb-side management.

Barista Oat 10L, kerb-side: 7g CO2e / 10L

Barista Oat 10L, recycled by Enval: 5.79g CO2e / 10L

Barista Oat Tetra 10L equivalent, kerb-side: 220g CO2e / 10L

Compared to rigid containers, flexible packaging requires -50% less energy use during production, reduces plastic use by -60%, and decreases packaging weight by -68%

Part of the output from pyrolyzing plastics is a light gas similar to propane. Enval uses this in a  generator to power the plant. This means that once the plant starts it does not need any external power. In comparison with virgin plastics, the energy consumption is over 75% lower.