ABSORB
0
lbs of
carbon
through seaweed farming
Sway Polybags
Made from seaweed, plants, and home compostable polymers, this bag protects products from factories to doorstep.
✓ Durable
✓ Translucent
✓ Luxurious look and feel
Shop now via our trusted distributors!
Made with Seaweed
An abundant marine crop that replenishes ecosystems
Designed for Compost
Breaks down cleanly in home and industrial compost
Excellent Performance
Matches the necessary qualities of traditional plastic bags
Super Scalable
Manufactured domestically with globally available infrastructure
Replace LDPE with a compostable, seaweed-based alternative
Sway Polybags perform like plastic — strong, flexible, lightweight — but last only as long as needed. After use, they return to nature through home or industrial composting.
With seaweed as its star ingredient, every Sway Polybag helps support healthy ecosystems and communities. Fast-growing and abundant, seaweed improves ocean health, boosts biodiversity, and supports thriving coastal communities.
What’s the impact of seaweed in a Sway bag?
Seaweed is Sway’s superhero ingredient, and for good reason. Even a little goes a long way! Toggle to learn how seaweed helps regenerate ecosystems.
75,000 BAGS
REMOVE
0
lbs of excess
nutrients
including nitrogen and phosphorous
PROTECT
0
acres
of habitat
boosting biodiversity
* Calculations based off an average size Sway bag. Inquire with team to understand your order’s impact.
Adopted by leading fashion and outdoor brands
Learn how seaweed-based materials are meeting the demands of global supply chains while delivering on performance, efficiency, and circularity.
FAQ
Why We Made It
Each year, 180 billion plastic polybags are used by the fashion industry alone. With low recycling rates, the vast majority end up in landfill, or as pollution in our waterways, wildlife, and even human bodies.
Many polybags can and should be eliminated. But they have become supply chain staples due to their ability to protect products during shipping, ensuring pristine delivery. Sway Polybags maintain this essential performance while generating benefits for ocean health, coastal communities, and soil.
How It's Made
STEP #1: FORMULATION
Sway is an ingredient brand. At our lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, we develop breakthrough formulations through continuous prototyping, rigorous testing, and lab-scale production trials. Our team is constantly innovating!
STEP #2: MANUFACTURING
We partner with established domestic manufacturers who utilize standard plastic processing equipment. These partners compound and extrude our biobased formulations into high-performance pellets and flexible films.
STEP #3: DISTRIBUTION
Our network of packaging distributors (EcoEnclose, A New Earth Project, and Atlantic Packaging) transform our finished materials into packaging for brands across industries — from fashion and sports, to cosmetics and personal care, and beyond. We're just getting started!
Sway is an ingredient brand. At our lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, we develop breakthrough formulations through continuous prototyping, rigorous testing, and lab-scale production trials. Our team is constantly innovating!
STEP #2: MANUFACTURING
We partner with established domestic manufacturers who utilize standard plastic processing equipment. These partners compound and extrude our biobased formulations into high-performance pellets and flexible films.
STEP #3: DISTRIBUTION
Our network of packaging distributors (EcoEnclose, A New Earth Project, and Atlantic Packaging) transform our finished materials into packaging for brands across industries — from fashion and sports, to cosmetics and personal care, and beyond. We're just getting started!
Use Cases
Protect products in transit from dust, scuffing, and weather. Well-suited to package fashion, outdoor gear, home goods, accessories, cosmetics, and personal care.
Look & Feel
• Thickness: 1.5-2mil
• Color: Cream
• Clarity: Translucent (6-7% opacity)
• Texture: Soft, premium, flexible, lightweight
• Color: Cream
• Clarity: Translucent (6-7% opacity)
• Texture: Soft, premium, flexible, lightweight
Performance
• Heat Sealable
• Printable
• Durability: High*
• Tear Strength: High*
• Oxygen barrier: Medium*
• Grease barrier: High*
• Printable
• Durability: High*
• Tear Strength: High*
• Oxygen barrier: Medium*
• Grease barrier: High*
• Shelf life: 1+ year when stored in a cool, dry place.
*As compared with competitive compostable films. TDS available upon request.
*As compared with competitive compostable films. TDS available upon request.
Formulation
This material (TPSea Flex™) is majority biobased, combining our 100% biobased pellet technology (TPSea™) with certified home compostable polymers.
End of Life
Sway packaging is home and industrial compostable, breaking down cleanly without microplastics or toxic residues. If compost is not available, please dispose of it in the trash. This packaging is not recyclable.
TPSea Flex™, the material used to make this bag, is constantly evolving. Sway certifies commercial-ready materials through the global gold-standard certification, TUV Austria. Formal certification is a time- and resource-intensive process, taking approximately a year to complete. This is why you may see some bags labeled as "certification pending."
TPSea Flex™ 1.0 has achieved TUV Home & Industrial Compost certification. TPSea Flex™ 1.1 and beyond are formulated entirely from certified compostable ingredients. Please inquire with our team for the latest certification status.
Ready to try packaging made with seaweed?
Sway Polybags are available through our trusted packaging distribution partners, EcoEnclose and A New Earth Project. Start the conversation today about stock or custom bags for your brand.
