50% OFF offer on all Plum Ethical Bags
We’re going to try an offer. We might regret it, so it might not last long! The idea is that you buy a bag from us (we like this idea so far) then you get your friend to buy a bag too (we really like the idea now), then you send us your friend’s email [...]
Plum Ethical is Now a FREE Postage and Returns Site
…For the UK, at least. We’ve been thinking long and hard about this. Until today, we charged UK customers £5 for the delivery of each package, which is cost price for a one kilo package. Moreover, we had actually rejected free postage because we thought it would encourage increased carbon overheads. However, we’ve noticed that [...]
Recycled bags from OlovesM
Breaking News! (I think I have to say that to show excitement when presenting new news?) We have just put in an order with clever US recyclers OlovesM. They rescue material heading for land-fill and make really great bags, and they do it themselves, which means there are no worries about worker exploitation, despite the [...]
Awesome Rubber Cow Bags are Coming…
We’ve just got back from “Pure” in London. It’s a major women’s fashion show, and quite a few bag companies show there, and quite a few ethical companies show there too. The Rubber Cow Co. are both a bag company and a very ethical company who are strongly animal-free and vegan. I was looking forward [...]
Mysteries and Updates – Selling Eco Bags is Always Fun!
The mystery of the hordes of eco-visitors, and a new-look website and PlumEthical.com
Fair-Trade is More than Helping Someone Who Lives Far Away
What is fair-trade? Simon Garrett talks about fair-trade schemes, official and otherwise.
Waste not, want not
A couple of days ago, I looked up E&KO on the web again* and came across some YouTube videos I hadn’t seen before. In one, Kresse (the ‘K’ in E&KO) was talking about the amount of waste we create. She made a point that is worth repeating. Imagine you have to explain to an 8yrs-old [...]
E&KO Bags
Have you seen our E&KO bags? Wow they’re good. Really, good. We had to order them, sight-unseen (because we ran out of time getting the shop ready), but when they arrived we were over the moon. “Woohoo!”, we cried, “That’s the moon underneath us!” They are very, very well made, and all local to the [...]
The Neumatica Bags are Here!
Our Neumatica bags arrived last week, all the way from Argentina! We were really concerned about the carbon footprint, but we thought we should try it because Neumatica are doing such brilliant work. It turned out that Roby (owner of Neumatica) packaged the bags up very small, with no internal filling, and the delivery wasn’t [...]
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