The Eco Store

Welcome to our new Eco Store, where you will find many great Fair Trade Products which are  Eco-friendly too! Everything from  Bags, Purses, Jewellery and Stationery, to Household & Homeware items. Enjoy browsing our range of Eco Gifts and doing some ethical shopping online with us.

The word "eco" comes from the ancient Greek word 'oikos' meaning house, or the Latin 'oeco' meaning household. Mostly used as a prefix, it is added to an existing word to create another word with new meaning, mostly related to ecology. For example, eco-system, eco-tourism, eco-label etc, suggesting that a product is less damaging to the environment.
Ecology is the study of the detrimental affects of modern civilization on the environment, with a view toward prevention or reversal through conservation.

So what does environmentally or eco-friendly mean?
How we live our life affects our environment. To us, being environmentally or eco friendly means not wasting precious resources and choosing goods and services considered to have a lower impact on the environment.
 
Here at the THE FAIR TRADE STORE we are pretty eco conscious. Where possible, we Reduce, Re-use and Recycle in our warehouse and office. We care about the environment. As such, we use recycled or sustainably produced materials as much as possible and have carefully selected a range of products below that display many of these characteristics.