Transparency
Cocoknits products are not all petroleum plastic-free, nor are they all made in the U.S.. We avoid traditional plastic as much as possible and use recycled materials if we can, when we have to use traditional plastics. The products that we make in China are sourced with the help of our long-time partner in China who is an engineer. He helps us fine tune all of the products that Julie dreams up and makes prototypes of. He then helps us find a manufacturer that can make it with the materials we want to use. We would love to manufacture everything in the U.S.A. but unfortunately there is not a domestic infrastructure to work with sustainable materials, especially on the relatively small scale that we do. We have considered manufacturing our packaging or portions of our products in the U.S. and doing the final assembly and kitting here. However that would increase the transportation within our supply chain and ultimately increase the carbon footprint. So in an effort to be environmentally conscious regarding transportation, we make and pack in China then ocean freight (or sometimes air freight) to our warehouse in California.