Our story
We'd rather sell less tea, better.
Kanso started at a kitchen table in Bristol, with one question: how much of the price of a cup of tea ever reaches the person who grew it? The answer was depressing. So we built a tea company the other way round.
- 2×the Fairtrade minimum, paid to every farm
- 100%paper, card and plant-based packaging
- 0grams of plastic in anything we send
Fair, by default
Where your £15 goes
Every penny of a caddy of Sencha Bloom, split by who it pays. Point at a slice (or tap it) to see what it covers.
The farm 36%
Paid to the family who grew and picked it, at twice the Fairtrade minimum, before the tea leaves their gate.
Nothing wasted
Every layer has somewhere to go
No plastic, no foil, no "widely recyclable" small print. Here's what arrives, and what to do with it afterwards.
The caddy
Recycled card, printed with vegetable inks
Paper recycling, or keep it for your spices
The liner
Glassine paper that keeps the light and damp out
Paper recycling
Tea bags
Plant-based mesh, no plastic sealant
Your food caddy or compost heap
The mailer
Corrugated card with a paper tape seal
Flatten it and recycle it, or send us a crate back
The people
Four of us, and a lot of kettles
Turn a card over for a small confession.