Membership: We are members of the National Organisation for Responsible Business (ORB), supporting small businesses to play a vital role in their local communities, contributing to social, environmental, and economic sustainability, and setting an example of ethical and responsible business behaviour in the UK and across the world. We are also business members of the Global Plastic Pollution Coalition and approved by the Global Good Market.

Education and Learning: Founder Lorraine Allman is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IES). She has passed both the IEMA Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management, and IEMA Sustainability Skills for Managers exams. We are keen to support organisations that work with children and young people on climate change, and doing all we can to ensure we keep up to date with scientific research and developments in this area, and in particular with plastics and bioplastics.

Collaboration: Our membership of the Organisation of Responsible Business, and Plastic Pollution Coalition provides us with many opportunities to collaborate with both businesses and organisations. We also fully support the Green Claims Code.

Provenance: If we can’t verify how and where a product has been made, it doesn’t make it on to the Marketplace. This includes understanding how products from abroad are shipped e.g. we look for boat rather than air freight, as well as appropriate certifications.

Business Practice Review: We continuously review our practices across every aspect of the business, including our supply chains, to ensure we are not only as eco-friendly as possible, but also that practices are ethical. Our website is hosted on servers in a data centre that is run entirely on electricity from renewable sources. When servers are no longer functional, they are recycled saving over 900 tons of CO₂ annually.

Global goals: We fully support all The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and align our work in particular to:

Purposeful: We want to invest in charitable organisations that look after not just the planet but also its people, which is why we donate 5% of our annual net profits to Better Planet Education through the Work for Good initiative.

We recognise everything detailed here is a continuous learning process, and there is always more for us to understand and learn. We welcome constructive feedback on what we’re doing, and are happy to discuss potential collaborations and/or partnerships.