Buying Local     Buying Recycled     Clothes Shopping     Gifts     Packaging     Reusable Bags     Secondhand

At the Shops

Buying Local / Organic

"...Buying local reduces the distance your food has to travel... Food is traveling further than ever before, often hundreds or even thousands of miles from where it was produced..." read more 

 
Buying Recycled

"...through recycling from home we are all contributing to putting back resources into the manufacturing industry, which reduces the impact that industry will have on the environment..." read more

Clothes Shopping

"...Even Topshop’s flagship store, in Oxford Street, London features the ‘Emmeline for Re’ collection which uses items donated to the Salvation Army and breathes new life into them..." read more

Gift Shopping

"...Extravagantly packaged gifts lure us into buying them for our nearest and dearest...but how about giving gift that not only requires no packaging but will also be much more memorable..." read more

 
Packaging 

"...it often seems that packaging and the environment don’t always make good bed fellows, but they could and sometimes do..." read more

Reusable Bags

"...The rise and rise of plastic shopping bags since they were first introduced into the world in the late 1950’s is quite staggering..." read more

Buying Second Hand
"...We think nothing of buying second hand cars or houses, and when it comes to smaller investments it appears that we think the same way. The days when only new will do, have been and gone..!" read more