Brand Story: rCUP
The rCUP is the world’s first reusable cup made from used cups. It is no spill, easy opening, insulated and recyclable. The rCUP is made by the award-winning design company, ashortwalk who are based...
Tagged: recycling
How to understand sunscreen…
It’s incredibly important to make sure that you look after your skin especially when it comes to the sun as we need to protect ourselves from the sun’s powerful UV rays through methods such...
Minimising Waste at Christmas
While Christmas is primarily a time of giving, and a time to get together with friends and family, it is also a very wasteful period. Statistics show that as a country, we can produce...
Our Ethics – Minimise Waste
Today I want to take a deeper look at one of our most important Ethics – minimising waste. When you look at the tag, there may not be too many products there, but they...
The Perils of Single Use Plastic
I’d like to think that by now we all know that we should be reducing the amount of plastic we use in our day to day lives. Just in case you don’t know –...
Eco-friendly gift wrapping this Christmas
It’s easy to get caught up in all of the fun of Christmas, and forget about the environment, but in the UK alone we throw away a massive 30% more rubbish over the festive...
Plastic Free July – how did it go?
A couple of us at Ethical HQ decided to take on the Plastic Free July challenge, and spent the month saying no to single-use disposable plastic. Why is this important? Why did we bother?...
Plastic Free July – the challenge so far
Having done Plastic Free July last year, I felt like I was fairly well prepared for this year, but it still proves to be quite the challenge. It really opens your eyes to how...
6 Places You’ll Find Hidden Plastic (That You Probably Didn’t Realise)
Whether you’re taking part in Plastic Free July (meaning you’re attempting to use no single use plastic for the whole month of July) or you’re just interested in doing your bit for the environment,...
Easter Egg recycling
This week the Guardian wrote an interesting post about Sainsbury’s offering dedicated packaging recycling bins. The first facility of its kind, being trialled in 50 stores, this will allow customers to recycle all elements...