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Revealed: Why your iPhone only lasted one year
Who’s excited about the new iPhone release? Has it ignited a desire so white hot you spent the end of last week camped out along a major high street or furiously locked in a silent digital bidding war. No? Here at BuyMeOnce HQ, we’ve been left reeling from the latest revelation that the lifespan of an iPhone is just one year.
The Zero Waste Home: 13 Easy Swaps for the Kitchen
The kitchen is easily the most used in the home and has the biggest potential for waste production. Here are some easy things you can do to make your kitchen happy and waste-free. Food Packaging and Storage Step away from the cling-film!
5 Ways the Sharing Economy Supports Sustainable Fashion
Blogger Spotlight: What Katie Sews
Sick of food waste? Serve it at your wedding!
Did you know one third of all food produced is wasted – most of which is fit for human consumption? Charlotte and Nick Baker wanted to tackle the problem at their wedding. The British couple asked Fur Clemt Real Junk Food Café in Wigan (a food waste charity) to feed their 135 guests.
How to Conquer Back to School with BuyMeOnce
August is inevitably a time when we rest, recover and then begin to look ahead. Whether September means you’ll be heading back to school or not, something in the promise of a new academic year resonates with us humans well beyond graduation.
August Spotlight: Dalcini Stainless
In just a few short weeks, summer holidays will end and the prep for school will begin again. Alongside buying new shoes, hemming trousers and stocking up on pens that will inevitably disappear, the never-ending cycle of what to pack for lunch will also be at your doorstep.
The Right To Repair Movement: What It Is And How To Help
Fair Repair bills, legislation that champions a citizen’s right to repair their own gadgetry, have recently stalled in several states in the USA. This is not good news. Encouragingly, the fight against planned obsolescence continues through the noble work of the right to repair movement who believe that real, positive change in the electronics industry is necessary.
5 Tips to Make Your Home-Share More Eco-friendly
Since we were kids, we’ve constantly been told to share. Home-sharing – and to a degree, Airbnb – is the ultimate form of sharing and home-swapping is the purest type of sharing out there. They’re both wonderful ways to involve yourself in the sharing economy.
Revealed: Europe’s bold plan to kill planned obsolescence
Good news Monday! Europe continues its fight against planned obsolescence by approving a resolution to make the EU Commission, member states and producers take action toward improving product repairability. A recent press release revealed that MEPs voted 662 to 32 to promote longer product lifespans “by tackling programmed obsolescence for tangible goods and for software.”
Get an Ethical Glow with This Summer’s Top 5 Beauty Products
Hop in the shower, hop out again. Cleanse, tone, moisturise. Grab your makeup kit, put your war paint on. But wait. Have you stopped to think about what you’re actually using putting on your face and body? What do these lotions and potions contain? How were these products made and what’s their long-term impact?
Is Fairtrade, the most important ethical standard, under threat?
The UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, Sainsbury’s, have shocked the ethically conscious community after pulling support for the Fairtrade Foundation. The groceries giant is the largest retailer of Fairtrade, the world’s most prominent ethical stamp that sets standards to the benefit of over 1.65 million farmers across 74 countries.
