Brands To Buycott
Buycotting is where you actively choose to buy a brand’s products or services because you believe in and support their policies – it’s like voting with your wallet. There are loads of brands and businesses out there creating ethical and sustainable goods, from packaging-free cosmetics to shoes made from apple waste. Here are our fave brands to invest in.
BRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #27 OFFBLAK
Tea is a very important business in this country, so important that you could get into a fist fight over whether the tea or the…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #26 HAPPIER BEAUTY
Toothpaste may be key to staying clean but it’s certainly not green. Over a billion single-use plastic toothpaste tubes are binned each year and waste…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #25 ENDANGERED BREWING
There’s nothing quite like cracking into a can of ice-cold beer but the thirst quench hits different when you know that the beer you’re drinking…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #24 WUKA
Single-use plastics are rife in period products; on average women will use around 11,000 disposable menstrual products in their lifetime and around 200,000 tonnes of…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #23 ERNIE
We have a serious coffee habit in this country but one thing we may not think about when we’re having the first cup of the…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #22 RE=COMB
Plastic waste is a massive issue – single-use plastics are everywhere and only around 7% – 11% of plastic waste in the world gets recycled.…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #21 ARKITAIP
We all know how polluting the fashion industry is – the carbon emissions are huge and unwanted garments clog up landfills – so when mother…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #20 SPRUCE
When it comes to environmental impact, household cleaning products are right up there and not in a good way. The solutions, which are around 90%…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #19 SOLESHARE
If Friday night is always fish supper night in your house, there’s a new sustainable way to keep the seafood coming on the regs. SoleShare…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #18 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SOCKS
A rogue one always seems to go missing when you’re doing a wash and you may not give them much thought when you’re getting dressed…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #17 KARMA DRINKS
Fizzy sodas don’t have the best rep but Karma Drinks is one brand that’s proving that they can taste good, be made from proper ingredients…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #16 AERENDE
The perfect piece of homeware can certainly bring joy to its owner but for British brand Aerende, which sells “life-improving homewares”, their products also have…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #15 THE ETHICAL BUTCHER
Switching to a vegan diet is often touted as the biggest way you can reduce your environmental impact but it’s not the only option -…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #14 SCRATCH LONDON
After working in the aviation industry, retail design, visual merchandising and marketing, Laura Brown turned her hand to jewellery and founded Scratch London in 2017.…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #13 THE UNDERARGUMENT
The Underargument may be a lingerie brand but it’s as much about empowerment and celebrating individuality as it is about beautiful bras and knickers. Maïna…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | # 12 KANKAN
The beauty and personal care industry is one of the worst offenders when it comes to plastic, as a lot of products contain microplastics or…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #11 OVERLORD
With his brand Overlord Cedric Chaveau takes unwanted fabrics and discarded garments and upcycles them, creating new streetwear from old materials. He gives the textiles…
Read moreBRANDS TO BUYCOTT | #10 TONY’S CHOCOLONELY
Dutch brand Tony’s Chocolonely is about two things: making epic choccy bars (the dark milk pretzel toffee…if you know, you know) and making all chocolate…
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