The answer is simple – source our products responsibly. Shared Earth can help in this process by offering eco-friendly products which are sustainable, which avoid plastic, and which involve minimal energy, pollution and waste in their manufacture. Handmade and organic products are ideal and we have a wide range. We have products like rice-husk cups, alternatives to plastic throwaways; bamboo socks, which use a third of the water it takes to grow cotton; jute bags, which last for ages; and solid shampoo, to avoid the use of plastic bottles. We also sell hundreds of recycled or upcycled products made from plastic bottles, paper, glass, tins, computer boards, even bicycle chains. We sell greetings cards with compostable cello-bags and we avoid plastic as much as we can in all our packaging; our aim is ‘zero-waste’ to landfill.