Changing our habits – even in a small way – can have a great impact on our fight against climate change and rising plastic pollution. One way of doing this can be with our cleaning products, where there is a range of opportunities for better practice. As the technology develops and investment increases, sustainable products […]
Category: Protecting the Planet
The Great Big Green Week
The Great Big Green Week runs from 24th September to the 2nd October 2022 and is the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. Great Big Green Week will unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of […]
Plastic Free July
It’s the start of ‘Plastic Free July’, where we make a conscious effort to reduce the amount of single use plastic we use throughout the month of July. We know that it can be really hard to reduce our plastic, but there are little changes we can all make to help make a difference. And […]
The World Fair Trade Day is a worldwide annual celebration held on the second Saturday of May. The event was created by the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) in 2004 to raise awareness on alternative solutions to the planet’s economic and ecological crisis. The theme for World Fair Trade Day 2022 is Climate Justice. What […]
Plastic Free July
Plastic, it’s become a dirty word. But it’s not plastic that is actually the problem, it’s us. It’s our excessive consumption of it. We have become addicted as a society to the convenience of single-use plastic. And the thing about addictions is they are hard to break. Over the last few decades, seeing our fruit […]
Plastic, and the amount we use, has hit the headlines over the last few weeks. With so much going to landfill due to plastic either not being able to be recycled or people choosing not to, we are reaching a plastic crisis! The supermarkets have been called on to reduce their plastic packaging, but what […]
Happy World Honey Bee Day
Happy World Honey Bee Day Fairtrade Honey Happy World Honey Bee Day! Pollination by bees is crucial to the world’s production of food. So let’s look after honey bees and the artisan farmers who rely on them. Fairtrade guarantees small-scale beekeepers in Latin America and Asia receive fair wages for their honey. Fairtrade also guarantees […]