To shop green is to be green- there is no other way to help the planet become a sustainable place to live in. Having started your go green efforts at home, the worst possible thing to do next is to head off down to the shops and buy products in non-recyclable plastic packaging, made in a dirty factory with hundreds of workers travelling on dirty buses to get there!
In the modern World the products we buy every day are transparent in the way the way they got to the shelves; in other words we can find found out the path they took from conception to selection of material, right through to manufacture and onto the resellers. Finding out this important decision making information can be done quite often via the vendor or through the internet.
To shop online for eco products is a modern and healthy way to go about your purchases, and we should all be more aware of the tremendous options we enjoy via the Internet. There are literally thousands of eco-shops on the web, offering every type of service and product you could need. There are every day essentials like organic and eco food shops, and shops that sell eco-friendly nappies and cosmetics.
Other kinds of eco-shops come in the form of eco-gifts. Every Christmas we have all experienced the last minute rush on the high street, buying anything we see just to make up the numbers for every aunt and uncle we didn’t know we had! Well the majority of these products will most likely be far from carbon neutral, and will also most probably go in the bin!
Next Christmas prepare yourself and plan to buy eco-presents for the whole family. One shop could do the trick, offering fun and inexpensive kids’ eco-toys, green bathroom products like soaps and shower gels / bath foams, or fair trade organic clothes made in Africa. There really is a great choice and no excuse not to buy carbon neutral gifts from eco shops online.
