LiveLove York, April 2010

Well at Shared Earth in particular, it’s Earth Day, on 22 April. Earth Day is better known in the States than in the UK, but it’s a worldwide event and Shared Earth is using it as an opportunity to promote the environment.

Shared Earth (on the corner of Low Petergate and Minster Gates) has long promoted environmental causes as well as Fair Trade and is now the leading retailer of recycled products in the UK.

Products are made from all kinds of materials, from paper and glass to more exotic ones like computer circuit boards, coffee cups and crisp packets. Many are made in the UK, but Shared Earth’s suppliers in countries like India don’t just throw things away – they make lovely new products, for example, from loom waste, soapstone and broken bangles.

“Agricultural” waste is also used. Shared Earth sells beautilful cards made from weeds and dried flowers, boxes and gift wrap from pineapple leaves and sawdust, even notebooks and photo albums made from elephant dung!

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