Our patronage of the retail, food, and beauty industry creates a solemn reality: waste. These industries contribute to significant deforestation, plastic waste, microbeads, and the destruction of unsold/returned goods. To understand how to balance your needs and impact your purchasing footprint on the planet, we have put together alternatives to buying ‘pristine condition’ items.

‘Social Sustainability’ focusses on creating changes or preserving social phenomena to support current and future communities. For businesses, it’s about ensuring community satisfaction, supporting local initiatives, and ensuring employees are treated with the respect they deserve. For consumers, it’s about understanding how the product impacts those beyond ourselves.

With plastic being so commonplace in the world, we have to look for sustainable alternatives to preserve our delicate natural world. This is why many people are actively cutting plastic from businesses and homes. However, knowing how and where to start is difficult. The changes take time, energy, and research. To assist in your plastic-free journey, we have some tips on how to phase plastic out of your life.

With the rise in consumer awareness of their social and environmental impact, companies must look to evolving their products to be as sustainable as possible. However, many businesses have instead begun to greenwash their products and customers into believing they’re a ‘green’ business.

For the environmental and sustainable footprint of the world, it is saddening to see that palm oil remains so popular. Without doing anything, the problem is expected to double by 2050. So many businesses are putting profit first. This means it is up to us as individuals to take action to preserve the rainforest.

This is an ongoing series we hope to deliver at Urthly Organics as part of our Products with Purpose blog. In this article, we focus on why our cloth range must focus on ethics as much as any other product in our range.

For Urthly Organics, we want to be transparent about why we choose the ingredients and how they align with our values. We care about the environment, quality, and supporting those who support us. To provide a short summary behind our decisions, we have included an explanation for some of the main ingredients we use and avoid.