Tattooing can be a very wasteful industry, but at Cloud Jelly, we try our best to make sustainable choices and cut down on the waste our shop creates. Below are a few companies we love as well as some steps we have taken on our own to cut down on our carbon footprint!
- We stock Toad and Turnip Tattoo Balm at our studio. They are a local business here to the state of Michigan in which all of their products and handmade and the ingredients are sourced from within their community.
- When it comes to cleaning products, we LOVE Grove! All of their products are sustainably made, and each package is made of recyclable materials, which means low to zero waste!
- We have sourced a good amount of our furniture and artwork from local vendors or secondhand from friends/family. We love vintage, so this one was easy! :)
- Good Judy is a Canadian-based company that supplies our biodegradable gloves and bed covers.
- Our shop uses the Epson Eco-Tank printer which is a cartridge-free printer that uses significantly less plastic than usual office printers.
- Recycling as much paper/plastic/glass as possible!
- Most of our artists use a rechargeable, cordless tattoo machine which requires less energy than a standard, corded coil tattoo machine.
- We have replaced almost all of the lighting fixtures in our building to LED lights which cuts down our energy use during working hours.