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With supermarkets and coffee shops increasingly switching to compostable bags and cups, we ask, how environmentally-friendly is compostable packaging?

Each year, 11 billion wet wipes are used in the UK, and most contain plastic.  Flushed into our sewage system, wet wipes are littering beaches, creating ‘fatbergs’ and adding to microplastic pollution in our seas.  With the UK government looking to ban plastic wet wipes in the next few years, we discuss the new law and what you should…

Buying secondhand furniture is a great way to reduce your personal environmental impact.  This short guide lists online and high street options for buying secondhand furniture, highlights key things to look out for when buying secondhand, and discusses what to do with your furniture when it reaches the end of its life.  

In this article, we highlight the problems with peat, look at whether coir is a sustainable or ethical alternative to peat for gardening use, and assess other peat-free compost options.  

Honest Supplies is a Best Buy Label supplier of environmentally friendly toilet paper. We talked to them about the philosophy behind the company, challenges faced, and the future.

Our new guide to Furniture Shops ranks the biggest brands in the market, alongside some of the lesser-known but supposedly more sustainable ones. It examines how sustainable UK furniture shops are and presents a trial version of Ethical Consumer’s new scoring system.

The co-founders of the Kindling Trust meet Simon Birch at their newly-purchased farm that will become a showcase for sustainable farming. In this article they share their vision for the land with organic growing and community engagement key priorities.

Animal derived products are hidden in the ingredients lists of many cleaning products.  In this article, we look at how to spot them and where to find vegan cleaning products and brands.

Recycling company TerraCycle says that it is “Eliminating the Idea of Waste”. However, when it comes to transparency around the impact of its programmes on brands’ overall waste, we’re left in the dark.

Rob Harrison and Ruth Strange discuss the findings around consumer goods from Closing the Climate Gap 2024: An annual report on progress towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK.

54 projects from around the world have been shortlisted for the £220,000 Lush Spring Prize for environmental and social regeneration.

Matt Franklin of Carbon Co-op peers into some of the complexities we face in the transition to low carbon homes. This time he looks at home automation and remote control of equipment.

During the research into our guide to ethical cleaning products, several issues kept coming up. Read on to find out whether your washing up liquid, laundry cleaner or dishwasher detergent is squeaky clean or if it contains microplastics, polymers or ingredients which have been tested on animals.

Ethical Consumer asked the UK Boycott Turkey campaign to write about its work and to explain to us why it is targeting white goods brands Beko and Grundig.

Alex Crumbie and Josie Wexler crunch the numbers on the enormous carbon impact of steel, along with other environmental and social impacts of producing steel for home appliances and infrastructure.

Could the fight to ban the use of peat finally end in victory? Simon Birch talks to a leading campaigner about the environmental impact of using peat and the role of the gardening industry.

With more than half the energy used by supermarkets said to be from fridges and freezers, we look at how consumers can help to save energy. Small retailers too may find they can save a huge amount on bills.

Reform Radio are a radio station that aims to address youth unemployment. They are currently hosting an all-day broadcast to connect music with climate action.

We look at the changes to EU energy efficiency labels for domestic appliances including lighting, and consider the implications of Brexit.

Libraries of Things are popping up all over the UK. This page gives a brief outline of what a library of things is and how they work. Plus we have a directory and map of all the Libraries of Things around the UK - now almost 100! Don't miss the links to Repair Cafe directories too (scroll to the end of the page).