Bumble Wrap – Kitchen Bread Wrap 50cm x 50cm – Flamingo Design
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Bumble Wrap – Kitchen Bread Wrap 50cm x 50cm – Flamingo Design
Bumble Wrap – the beautiful natural alternative to clingfilm. Plastic-free food wraps you can wash, re-use and compost! These wraps are made from cotton coated in beeswax. Adding the oils to the cotton creates a washable breathable fabric which keeps food fresher for longer and can be reused over and over again. As you cut and use the bread you can simply fold the wrap on the bread to reduce the air movement around the bread and ensure maximum freshness.
This 50cm bread wrap will fit most loaves of bread and will also cover a very large bowl.
Handmade in Yorkshire from Cotton, Beeswax, Tree Resin and Jojoba oil.
Eco Friendly, Sustainable, 100% Cotton, Cruelty Free, Made in the UK.
Bumble Wrap – Kitchen Bread Wrap 50cm x 50cm – Flamingo Design.
Bumble Wrap – the beautiful natural alternative to clingfilm. Plastic-free food wraps you can wash, re-use and compost! These wraps are made from cotton coated in beeswax. Adding the oils to the cotton creates a washable breathable fabric which keeps food fresher for longer and can be reused over and over again. As you cut and use the bread you can simply fold the wrap on the bread to reduce the air movement around the bread and ensure maximum freshness.
This 50cm bread wrap will fit most loaves of bread and will also cover a very large bowl.
How to clean: Clean your wrap by washing it in cold water, with a mild dish soap and sponge/brush. Hang to dry and store folded in a drawer or rolled in a jar until the next time.
Handmade in Yorkshire from Cotton, Beeswax, Tree Resin and Jojoba oil.
Eco Friendly, Sustainable, 100% Cotton, Cruelty Free, Made in the UK.
Bumble Wrap – The story behind the wraps!
How can we reduce the amount of single use plastic we use? This is the question that we asked as a family and the answer led to us setting up Bumble Wrap. We did a shop at our local supermarket, I would put something in the trolley and my son would take it out because it was packaged in plastic in some way. That shop cost me £11.20. The cheapest weekly shop ever and as we had very little food for the week I had to re-think how we sourced the foods we like to eat.
We realised that evening that this was going to be harder than we had thought.
It took some research to find alternatives. Some changes were easy, for example switching to loose leaf tea (who knew tea bags contained plastic!). Switching to reusable water bottles and delivered milk were easy wins. Soap nuts for washing our clothes were an amazing find (although we need to try our local chestnuts this Autumn). Other things took time to change; finding a shampoo bar that didn’t feel heavy in my hair… sourcing cherry tomatoes without the plastic seemed impossible.
Coming across a way to create food wrap using 100% cotton and beeswax was inspired. I had read a blog about waxed cloth and as I had a lot of beeswax from cappings someone had given me. I began experimenting to find the perfect mix of waxes. The beeswax by itself does not have the malleability and can crack easily, adding jojoba oil gives the Bumble Wrap greater flexibility and durability. Each wrap is created by hand, painting the wax mixture onto the fabric, allowing it to penetrate the cotton before cooling. We decided we wanted to share our Bumble Wraps with the world so that everyone can reduce their plastic consumption.
The beeswax has anti-bacterial properties and the jojoba oil has anti-fungal properties giving a food wrap which is breathable, washable, compostable and very importantly it looks pretty. Above all, our and can safely wrap almost any food items in your kitchen.
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Standard Rates (some heavy items may incur a higher cost)
Standard delivery £4.99 – 3-5 days delivery from despatch (please note this excludes weekends).
Express delivery starting from £5.99 – 2-3 days delivery from despatch (please note this excludes weekends).
Next Working Day – We do offer a 24hr delivery service, but we no longer refer to this as ‘Next Working Day’ due to order ‘received by’ times, courier collection times, and picking, packing and prepping times. Whilst we do often get packages out the same day, on a 24hr service so that they arrive the next day, we have found in recent years that the so called “Amazon Effect” has made this term unviable to advertise (that being that as a small family company that are open 9am to 5pm, we cannot receive an order at 8pm, process and ship out the same night and have it on your doorstep the following day).
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Saturday delivery – Saturday / Sunday (weekend) delivery is not currently guaranteed or widely available through our usual network of couriers. Some deliveries may well arrive on Saturdays, but this is at the discretion of the courier, and as such when ordering on a Friday for Next Working Day we do not guarantee it will arrive on the Saturday, we / the couriers guarantee it will arrive the next ‘Working Day’ i.e. Monday.
Working days
This term is widely used in delivery information as it refers to Monday through to Friday as being ‘working days’, and weekends are not classed as such. We use around half a dozen different couriers at any one time to give the best, cheapest and quickest delivery to your area across a wide variety of packages, which includes Small and Large Letters, Small and Medium Parcels and also Large Parcels. To have the flexibility to meet these demands we use the following services:
- Royal Mail 24hr and 48hr
- Despatch Bay 24hr and 48hr
- DHL and DX Freight Via DespatchBay Parcel2Go, which includes MyHermes 2 to 3 Day and also 1 to 2 Day
- Parcel2Go, which includes MyHermes 2 to 3 Day and also 1 to 2 Day
- TNT Next Day
- UPS Next Day Drop Off
All of these firms use slightly different terms, but as a general rule collections are made on ‘Working Days’ i.e. Monday to Friday, and deliveries are always done on Monday to Friday, and with Despatch Bay and Royal Mail delivering on Saturdays i.e. 6 days a week for just the delivery side of the Network.
As an example an order placed on a Wednesday at 8am in the morning will be despatched that same day, using the couriers ‘Next Working Day’ service and will therefore arrive on the Thursday the day after. However, an order placed on the Wednesday at 2pm, will be shipped on the Thursday using the couriers ‘Next Working Day’ service and arrive on the Friday. The reason for this is that the couriers have collection times of between 1pm and 5pm, so we cannot guarantee that after 12 noon we can pick, pack and ship your item that very same day due to the couriers various collection times.
If you are in significant need of a ‘Next Day’ delivery we do suggest that you call or email us before placing your order so we can advise you and can avoid any unnecessary disappointment.
We have increasingly found that over recent years many customers can place an order at 8pm at night and expect to be able to receive it the following morning, which we’re unable to do because of the nature of how couriers work, and also because our business is open from 9am to 5pm each day and we do not operate a night shift for packing orders.
Disclaimer: We always endeavour to do our absolute best to pick, pack and ship out your order as quickly as possible. However we do ask customers to understand that we purchase the Delivery Service on your behalf from all of the above mentioned couriers, and as such we entrust them to carry out the final leg of the journey to you. We know that statistically around 98% of orders with courier deliveries are done on time and in accordance with the service that we buy from them. However, that does mean that around 2% do not, this is often for a variety of reasons, but not least because the courier firms are enormous operations that handle tens or hundreds of thousands of packages each and every day, if not millions, and so inevitably parcels may go missing or take longer to deliver than anticipated.
We kindly ask that customers take this into consideration, and do not complain harshly or abuse our staff in the unlikely, but perfectly possible event that your parcel does not arrive in time. We always want happy customers, and we work extremely hard behind the scenes to pull your order together and get it out to you very quickly.