Sana Packaging Sana Packaging creates a sustainable splash with two cannabis products made of 100% reclaimed ocean plastic including the first jar.
It’s said a rising tide lifts all boats, which is certainly true of the fast-growing cannabis market. The market has led to a boom in related packaging one report valued the maijuana packaging market at $101 billion in 2020 and growing at a CAGR of 22.6% through 2026.
Appropriately, Sana Packaging is ensuring its plastic packaging options ride that tide using reclaimed ocean plastic anchored to a circular economy.
The company introduced in January the cannabis industry s first jars from reclaimed ocean plastic: the Sana Ocean Jar 4.
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Two students walk into a college classroom, bond over cannabis and launch a packaging venture in an emerging industry. While this might sound like the plot for a movie, this is where Sana Packaging’s story begins.
As grad students at the University of Colorado in Boulder, company founders Ron Basak-Smith and James Eichner both pursued the same focus: sustainability and the circular economy. They also shared similarities in courses taken, music taste and, most notably, cannabis. Co-Founder and CSO Eichner explains that while neither party had experience in packaging or the industry, a gaping hole in sustainable, recyclable options drove them to found Sana Packaging in 2016.