Designer Eco-Friendly Bags

DeWeNe

DeWeNe (Designs We Need) launches it’s first product ‘Hook and Go’ - the shopping trolley re-invented. Hook and Go is a fold up trolley which allows you to visit your local shops or farmers markets and carry large quantities of bags home effortlessly. You simply hook your bags over the hook arm of Hook and Go and wheel it home.

Doy Bags

Doy Bags are made in the Philippines by a women's group, the Women's Multi-Purpose Cooperative based near Manila. The cooperative produces approximately 500,000 bags and household items per year, thus preventing many millions of juice packs and candy wrappers from being burnt, buried or simply littering the streets and waterways. The Women's Multi-Purpose Cooperative has won a number of awards in the Philippines for its concern for the environment and its outstanding contribution to waste recycling and employment generation.

Ganesha

Ganesha is an alternative trading outfit that markets the traditional industries of India. Working directly with the producers, their aim is to add as much value to handmade products through quality in design and making, to maximise the earning potential of the (often rural) producers at source, and put additional money into local economies.

Littlearth UK

When Rob Brandegee and Ava DeMarco founded a small company in 1993 with a simple recycling idea, they couldn't have known that some 15 years later they would be leading at the forefront of eco-fashion. The innovative process of reusing and recycling the most unexpected materials has become the canvas for intriguing ideas to develop amongst creative designers from all over the world. Inspiring 'haute' conversation where ever they are taken, your Littlearth handbag is going to catch attention!

Naveh Milo

Naveh Milo shopping bags are made on the outskirts of Medan, Indonesia, by a women's cooperative. By employing local women, and those who have travelled inland from Tsunami affected regions, Naveh Milo is making a positive impact on both the local, and wider community.

People Tree

People Tree is a fair trade and ecological fashion company, selling clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies. Safia Minney brought People Tree to the UK in 2001 and by 2006, had a concession in Topshop’s Oxford Circus store. It currently is working with 70 fair trade groups in 20 countries and is proud to combine the latest trends in fashion with traditional skills and technologies. People Tree champions organic cotton farming, simultaneously bringing benefit to the customer, the growers and the environment.

Rubbish Bags

Trash Chic bags are made in Bangkok by a co-operative, and are made from 100% recycled rice grain sacks.

Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith produces a bright, colourful, eye-catching range of bags. All of the products made in Britain proudly carry the Fairtrade mark.

Shared Earth

Shared Earth works with over 30 producers around the world to bring you fairly traded and ethical products and gifts. It began as a small shop on Goodramgate, York which opened in October 1986, and now has seven shops to its name. Shared Earth builds and maintains partnerships with producers and disadvantaged people in developing countries which helps to keep traditional skills alive, whilst benefitting local communities and building bridges, regardless of race, religion or culture.

Silverchilli

Silverchilli work with two Mexican charities promoting sustainable resource management, skills training and educating on recycling. PlanetSilverChilli bags are handmade by womens groups, environmentalists and a prisoner skills training groups using colourful factory-second crisp packets and car tyres. PlanetSilverchilli pay 50% in advance on all orders to help fund raw materials, so the producers are never out of pocket. The remaining 50% is paid on delivery, making PlanetSilverChilli bags a combination of fair trade, inspired design, and environmental consideration.

Traidcraft

Traidcraft comprises of a trading company and a development charity, fighting poverty through trade since 1979. It has formed lasting relationships with small scale producers all over the developing world, whilst also actively campaigning for trade justice. If you care about the story behind the product, then Traidcraft has the products for you.

Turtle Bags

Turtle Bags promotes the work of  the Marine Conservation Society. Turtles are mistaking upturned plastic bags for their favourite food, jellyfish, with deadly results. Turtle Bags seeks to promote alternatives to plastic bags and reducing plastic pollution.

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