Essentia uses more eco-friendly shipping than most mattress companies. It uses special machinery to compress, roll, and pack the dense, heavy all-latex mattresses. Because of the compression, most Essentia mattresses take up 75% less space in a truck and require 75% less packaging than conventional mattresses. They also ship via UPS or FedEx, which saves on shipping costs and associated emissions. Essential uses packing boxes made from 100% recycled paper (99% post-consumer, 1% post-industrial) too.