Monthly Archives: July 2024

1. Ensure your merchandise has certification and traceability

In the early days of sustainable branded merchandise, consumers and suppliers alike would consider the materials a product was made from as the sum of its sustainable credentials. Now we’re better educated, we know it’s important to make sure that the materials were farmed and products were also produced in a sustainable and ethical way. Having certification will give you that peace of mind. What you don’t want is a “2019 Spice Girls T-Shirts” incident, where it turned out their gender equality t-shirts for Comic Relief were being produced in a sweat shop in Bangladesh, where women were working in poor conditions and being paid only 35p per hour.  

2. Solve an environmental problem with reusable products 

The planet is facing a problem with plastic pollution and single-use plastic items play a very large part in that. In recent years we’ve started to see bans and programs in place to combat single-use plastic water bottles,