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It’s time to share some of the amazing organizations that are leading the way when it comes to making Liverpool more ethical and environmentally friendly.
After all, it’s important for us not just as a city, but globally, to find solutions to the issues that our planet faces. And if we can support local projects and ethical businesses in Liverpool while we’re at it, all the better!
We hope this list inspires the use of these ethical start-ups, charities and small businesses across the region, to help communities better work toward their own ethical and eco goals.
If we’ve missed any other ethical businesses in Liverpool off this list, please leave a comment at the end of this article!
The Baltic Farm is a creative food project rooted in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, one of the most exciting and fast-growing areas of Liverpool. This project aims to build a successful “urban farm and cultural events space that and connects our local community, builds a local food network, fills homes with fresh local food and creates engaging and meaningful jobs”.
We’re seriously excited to see where else this project leads and if more green spaces and urban farms follow lead across Liverpool.
Tusk Baltic
Liverpool’s first carbon-free restaurant is a great achievement, and it’s why we think Tusk (in the Cains Brewery Village) is leading the way in environmental awareness.
By signing up to Carbon Free Dining, Tusk is now able to accept small donations from their dining customers, which allow the bar and (delicious) restaurant to plant trees to offset the carbon-cost of each dining experience.
We also included Tusk in our rundown of the best event spaces in Liverpool.
Little World
This zero-waste cafe and shop is nestled in a industrial estate in North Liverpool, but don’t let that put you off. This is one of our favorite ethical businesses in Liverpool! The smell of freshly prepared food and coffee is worth the visit alone, but you can also pick up everything you need to cook your own zero waste meals while you wait for your veggie or vegan feast to arrive.
The shop offers a range of packageless fruit and vegetables, a wide selection of wholefoods (bring your own containers), refillable cleaning products, and more.
Waste Not Want Not
This young packaging-free shop and online supplier based across the water in Birkenhead Market, offers a wide variety of refillable and single use single-use-packaging-free products ranging from food and non food items. Everything is vegan and cruelty free.
The store has received a number of awards, and we hope that spurs them on to make even more of an impact in the local community!
Shared Earth
This long-standing Bold street shop (part of a larger chain) has been working hard “to improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged people in developing countries, benefiting local community projects and keeping alive traditional skills that would otherwise be lost.”
Inside the store, you’ll find a range of beautiful products from across the planet that are Fair Trade, eco, and ethical.
Soup
Ever wondered how grassroots projects can get the support and money to see them realised? Well, Liverpool Soup is a fun way to hear and give short pitches, eat soup, and pick your favourite project. The project that has the highest number of votes at the end of the meetup wins the micro-funds and donations made on the night to help their project succeed.
All ideas and projects must directly impact an L-postcode, and pitches can be up to four minutes long. What better way to support your Liverpool community than to eat soup, and hear about amazing projects?
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News from Nowhere
Liverpool’s much-loved not-for-profit radical & community bookshop has been around since 1974. The shop is run collectively by a womens workers co-operative which, as they say, means “no boss & no owner!”
If you can’t find the book you’re looking for in the shop, chances are they can order it in for you.
CAN Waterloo
Located on St. Johns Road in Waterloo, CAN is Liverpool’s first 100% plastic free and vegan café. The cafe launched as CAN’s co-owners struggled to find other completely vegan food in Liverpool, so they took it upon themselves to create this environmentally friendly alternative.
And yes, the food is delicious.
The Green Community Shop
Located on Christchurch Road, Oxton Village (Birkenhead), this non-profit community shop operates on the values of co-operation, sustainability and local participation.
The shop sells donated goods, local arts and crafts, Fair Trade products and Ecover products,
Squash Gardens, Cafe & Shop
Squash is a project that helps to operate food gardens on Windsor Street. Their main space is the Grapes Community Food Garden next door to Toxteth TV, which is now a vibrant, mature, green space much-loved by locals and visitors alike. It produces significant yield of many food crops, food and flower plants (sold in the Squash shop) and is also home to the Toxteth Seed collection.
If you want to learn more about growing your own or just get your hands dirty follow the link to find out how.
Ethos Magazine
Sometimes we need a dose of positive news about ethical entrepreneurs, responsible business, community, and sustainability. And that’s exactly what Liverpool-based Echos magazine is all about: “covering stories about the most progressive business leaders, their teams, ethos and ideas to give you a unique insight into how they’re changing how business is done”.
Windmill Wholefoods
Located on Aigburth Road, Windmill Wholefoods is an independent, organic wholefoods shop and workers co-operative, selling a wide range of fresh organic fruit and vegetables, organic wholefoods, ethical and fairtrade foods, and eco-friendly household and body-care products.
To make your ethical shopping even easier, you can pre-order your fruit & vegetables for collection, bulk buy your wholefoods, and even put in special orders or requests for specific products.
Mortons & Harrison Dairies
Sometimes you just have to go backwards to move forwards: like going back to glass milk delivery across Merseyside and ditching the plastic supermarket bottles.
That’s what Mortons Dairies is offering. Milk delivered to your door in recycled (and recyclable), environmentally-friendly glass bottles. Little steps like these lead us in the right direction.
Unifill
Want a zero-waste grocery delivery service, but don’t know how? By collecting customer’s empty packaging then filling it back up at their office in Liverpool, to deliver back out to you, the customer.
They also promise to offset the extra carbon emission used, by using the Shell Go App.
McCormacks Crosby
McCorkacks, formerly Tilly Mint, offers a new concept around sustainable living and giving. Don’t worry, they still supply locally made gifts, along with ‘gifts with a conscience’, which give back to the community in which they are made.
But they now also stock a range of biodegradable alternatives to plastic products to help reduce environmental damage. Check out their variety of both dried and liquid products that are available on a refill basis.
“We’re not perfect, but we’re trying to do our bit to help save the planet!”
As you can see, there are plenty of environmentally-friendly and ethical businesses in Liverpool. And hopefully this is just the beginning!
If we’ve missed any other ethical businesses in Liverpool off this list, please leave a comment below!
Want to learn more about the what’s on offer in Liverpool? Check out our Liverpool city guides!
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