Join Preserve Founder & CEO, Eric Hudson, as he travels around Preserve HQ City, Waltham, Massachusetts and recounts some of Preserve's innovations and "first" as well as the opportunities that lie ahead. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about Preserve and for investing to support our mission.

Video credit: Violet Forney, Preserve Intern

In 2022 the Canadian government enacted a ban on single use plastics in many applications, and today, Preserve is well aligned to offer alternatives. The Canadian ban prohibits certain materials entirely, and requires that others be able to withstand continued dishwashing. Preserve’s full line of reusable tableware as well as our compostable and recycled cutlery meet government requirements to be acceptable under the ban.

This puts us in an excellent position and Preserve is looking to land many new Canadian accounts with our distributors, as our competitors are leaving the scene. Hello Canada! How are you today, eh?

Stay tuned to our campaign to hear more about how we approach the plastics problem and offer alternatives to bans.  

Thank you for reading, and for considering investing in Preserve.

Join us for a brief zoom video conversation between Preserve’s Director of Stakeholder Operations, Deana Becker, and Joe Hesketh, Senior Director of Channel Management at SPINS, Preserve’s partner for developing and growing our Amazon business.

We’re excited that we continue to see investment come in to Preserve from our friends, family, and neighbors. We’re required to let you know that this includes investments by our Insiders as well, totaling $1,227 to date. We are grateful for your interest in our campaign and look forward to answering any questions you may have.

Please refer to the Company’s offering materials for further information and refer to the Company’s Risk Factors. 

Preserve is all about color. It's one of the key design elements we chose in order to show that recycling can produce products that are more sustainable, highly functional, and beautiful. At the time Preserve was founded, recycled plastic was typically only used for items like ashtrays or road barriers (remember ashtrays?). By emphasizing unique and unusually pleasing colors, we specifically aimed to make products made from recycled plastic something to celebrate, not hide. And, we think it’s worked! Preserve toothbrushes have been featured in movies and TV shows, despite us never seeking “product placement,” and we’ve heard from customers who have liked our colors so much that they’ve chosen a bathroom or kitchen of the same hue.

Our color changes occur about once every three years and we’re thrilled to introduce this next batch…which is just hitting stores now.

We’ve hit over 50 investors in this first week of our crowdfunding campaign.  Thank you for your investment in Preserve and our mission to create sustainable everyday products. 

Since we founded Preserve, people have asked if they can invest to support our mission and growth.  It’s been very rewarding since our StartEngine launch to say every day “Yes you can!”  And not just to accredited investors, but to everyone and anyone.  

It’s been great to see the wide variety of individuals who have chosen to invest in Preserve through StartEngine.  In fact, this is one of the biggest rewards of our campaign for the Preserve team.  We now have investors in our company who are teachers, friends, family, neighbors, all Preservers in every aspect of the word.  

In the next days and weeks, we’ll be providing updates and information on Preserve’s unique partnerships, processes and people. We continue to be excited to tell you more, and answer your questions.

And if you invest within our first 2 weeks, you’ll get a 10% bonus.  

Please feel free to reach out with any questions or feedback you might have. 

Thank you!

Eric

Company-Level Certifications

B Corp is our longest standing company-level certification.  Preserve certified as a B Corp in 2011, committing publicly to prioritizing the needs of all stakeholders and not just profits.  Since we were founded as a mission driven company, the decision to certify was easy – but being a B Corp isn’t just signing a document or an agreement.   It’s about being transparent about our practices in 5 major areas – governance, workers, community, environment and customers – and seeking to constantly improve in those areas while the bar continues to be raised.  It’s not always easy, but we’re excited to do this work.  As a B Corp, we’re seeking to use business as a force for good – alongside 6,492 other companies in 89 countries, and across 61 industries.  And with investors increasingly prioritizing environmental, social and governance measures and with B Corps seeing on average, higher growth and more stability during hard times than standard businesses, being a B Corp is also simply – just good business!

Another company level certification we hold is Climate Neutral.  We certified as a Climate Neutral company in 2021.  This means we measured our emissions from making and delivering products during the previous year, offset our emissions with quality carbon offsets, and made commitments to reduce further emissions.  We’re currently in our third recertification.    

The Climate Neutral approach was important to us, as a company committed to Net Zero emissions, because we know that Preserve’s environmental impact goes far beyond our four walls.  It encompasses also what’s referred to as our “Scope 3” emissions.  These Scope 3 emissions are ones that happen upstream and downstream from us in the creation and delivery of our products - the transportation, the energy used in manufacturing and the packaging we choose to purchase.   We appreciate Climate Neutral’s approach of using best practices for measurement, of being accessible for consumer brands, and of requiring improvement.  While we realize that certifying through Climate Neutral is far from the end of our climate journey, it’s been a great start.

Product-Level Certifications

At Preserve, we choose product-level certifications when they make sense – both as a tool for us, as well as for our customers.  As you will see, our chosen product-level certifications are certainly something we are proud to carry, and they can also be very specific.

BPI  - BPI is a compostability certification that we hold on our PLA cutlery, as well as on our compostable cups.  BPI (bpiworld.org) is certification agency that certifies that products meet ASTM  (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards for industrial compostability.

Climate Partner, and Climate Pledge Friendly – We recently just completed an additional climate certification, this time at the product level, through Climate Partner.  This certification allows us to be included in Amazon’s Climate Pledge friendly products filter.  This certification shows that we have measured the carbon footprint, from production to end of life, for the razors and toothbrushes we sell on Amazon, and that we have offset these emissions through high-quality, 3rd party certified carbon offsets.

Leaping Bunny – Leaping Bunny is a program through the Coalition for Consumer Information in Cosmetics, that certifies that we, together with our suppliers, ensure that our products are not tested on animals.  This certification applies only to cosmetics – products which have the greatest risk of animal testing.  Our razors as well as our flavored toothpicks hold this certification.

NSF – The National Sanitary Foundation offers many different certifications.  Our Preserve2Go containers are NSF certified under Standard II, a cleanability standard for food service products.

Thank you for reading.  We welcome your questions!