Green Bugs

Considered purchasing is a great way of beginning to do your bit. If you just go for the cheapest option every time, are you sure that you are not practicing false economy? Take bin bags for example. You may buy the cheapest on the market, and think that getting degradable bin bags is too expensive, but maybe you find that your bags easily split open, and that you often find that you have double up on bags so that you don’t end up with rubbish all over your floor! Therefore, you are getting these cheaper bags but using them twice as fast!

Energy saving light bulbs or rechargeable batteries may seem more expensive initially, but they save you fortunes in the long run. Items that are ‘Fair Trade’ mean that the people who put the work into producing your product, whether it is coffee, bananas or a fruit bowl are getting paid fairly for the work they have done, just as you would expect to be. So your purchase can benefit others. Purchasing organic, sustainable, or recycled materials means that in the long term, you will not only be benefiting your own health but also benefiting bio-diversity, sustainability, and the more of us that purchase these products, the more mainstream they will become.