Rajapack

How ethical is Rajapack?

Rajapack is a packaging company which has fallen below The GOOD Shopping Guide’s ethical benchmark on our Ethical Packaging Ratings Table. While Rajapack performs well across several individual criteria, its overall performance does not meet the standard required, though the gap is narrow enough that targeted improvements could bring the company above the threshold.

What does Rajapack do?

Rajapack is the UK operation of the RAJA Group, a French packaging distributor founded in 1954 and now Europe’s leading distributor of packaging, supplies, and equipment. The RAJA Group operates across 19 European countries and serves over two million customers. Rajapack UK is based in Bedfordshire and offers over 5,000 packaging products to businesses across e-commerce, logistics, retail, and industrial sectors.

Why does Rajapack fall below The GOOD Shopping Guide’s benchmark?

Rajapack’s below-benchmark performance is driven by two key poor ratings. Most critically, the company receives a poor rating for its environmental report. This is a particularly significant gap for a company whose parent group actively markets itself on environmental commitments, operating programmes such as its Women and the Environment initiative and promoting eco-responsible products across its European operations. A business of the RAJA Group’s scale and reach, with the resources of a pan-European operation serving over two million customers, is well placed to produce a comprehensive environmental report that provides transparent, independently verified disclosure of its sustainability performance. The absence of such a report means that Rajapack’s environmental credentials cannot be verified against the standards set by higher-ranking brands in this sector.

Rajapack also receives a poor rating for vegan options, indicating limited focus on plant-based or vegan-certified packaging solutions within its product range. As consumer demand for sustainable and plant-based alternatives to conventional packaging continues to grow across the e-commerce and logistics sectors Rajapack serves, expanding into this area would both improve the company’s ethical rating and align with its parent group’s stated environmental positioning.

Beyond these poor ratings, Rajapack’s toxic chemicals policy and fossil fuels ratings are both acceptable rather than good, indicating further room for improvement in chemical management and energy transition commitments across its UK and European operations.

It is worth noting that Rajapack achieves good ratings across several criteria, including pollution prevention, eco certifications, animal welfare, responsible marketing, political donations, and armaments, and has no documented public record criticisms. The eco certifications rating reflects meaningful engagement with environmental standards and circular economy principles. However, good eco certifications and poor environmental reporting represent a contradiction that undermines Rajapack’s credibility as a sustainability-focused supplier. Addressing the environmental reporting gap would resolve this inconsistency and bring the company above the benchmark.

Consumers seeking packaging solutions that meet The GOOD Shopping Guide’s ethical benchmark are encouraged to consult our Ethical Packaging Ratings Table and our guide to ethical packaging, and prioritise brands that hold Ethical Accreditation. Several higher-ranking alternatives in this sector have achieved independent ethical verification and represent stronger choices for ethically conscious consumers. Our how we rate page explains the criteria used to assess all brands in this sector.