We are all Trustees of our Inheritance of our British Isles
Behind the scenes thousands of organisations, from small businesses to international corporations are enjoying success in sustainable activities. Some at the cutting edge in science and technology, many providing valuable services to their communities where they are acknowledged as leaders in their field.
Sustainable sourcing, products and packaging
Leaders in consumer goods do not compromise they focus on best practice,
more and more businesses reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.
Innovative packaging
Best practice packaging provides solutions within the container itself. Sachets and tubes are now made from a by-product of sugar cane, cartons from compostable grass paper. Both legislation and regulations are driving innovation and not just in large organizations, our B Corp partners demonstrate real skill, tenacity and agility.
Reusable Packaging
Among our suppliers are companies that provide post-free return of their re-useable screwtop sachets. A beauty products supplier rewards retailers that encourage customers to return their empty containers to be sanitized and refilled. Many of our suppliers have been able to remove or replace plastic from their packaging.
Recyclable Products
The ubiquitous corrugated case has remarkable insulation properties. One of our partners delivering fresh food to your door has taken advantage by retaining chilled air between layers of corrugated. Success came after a lot of development. Corrugated cases are the easiest products to recycle, the material can be used up to five times.
We share with you our SME Climate Hub Commitment
Freshly Minted for 2025.
You can support our role in the Hub whenever you support or purchase lifestyle options from our partners.
We, our partners and you, we are all committed to NET ZERO let's get there.
Mobilising for future generations
At the cutting edge in universities, colleges, centres of excellence, in technology development there is a vast army of intellect mobilised to advance our entire way of doing things
Farmers: Sustainability Leaders in our Communities
Increasing the supply of organic certified tree and hedging plants
One major step forward in the last few years has been the adoption by farmers of agroecology where farms integrate woodland into arable crop areas. The Soil Association is conducting an Agroforestry in Action Project where agroforestry combines trees with crops or livestock. Learn more here.
In a second project on the same theme the Soil Association say: "To put the UK on the path to Net Zero by 2050, the Climate Change Committee recommends that the UK needs to plant around 30,000 hectares (90 to 120 million trees) of broad leaf and conifer woodland each year. The Soil Association’s own vision for agroecology and regenerative forestry is for the area of farm woodland to double by 2050 and for 50% of all farms to incorporate some form of agroforestry system". Learn more here.
If you are keen to protect our planet, by joining the Soil Association you will be making a real contribution.
Both projects are an indication of just how busy, how involved the Soil Association are in their work with farmers and the farming community. And it has to be so if the UK is to maintain its place as one of the leaders in methods that preserve land, soil and reduce the amount of chemical fertilizers.
The projects key easily into the Circular Economy. In the model below, developed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we can see how farming and collection fits into the Renewables Flow. If farmers were to use agrochemicals their input would not fit the circular economy model, in fact we can see how agrochemicals have no place on the circular economy. Note how the diagram includes renewable energy - which if it is derived from fossil fuels equally has no place in the circular economy.
Visit our
LIVE
page on the circular economy, updated with the latest news in November 2024, some really great news there which demonstrates UK consumers are making an impact.
We hope you will agree there is a huge amount going on every day, much of which we may simply not aware. We make it our business to find out about and promote organisations and businesses that are
making a real difference.
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Progress to a Sustainable Future