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Summer Eco Travel Essentials – Part 3 Eco Beach

So far in Eco Trend Spotter’s Summer Eco Travel Essentials series we have looked at Eco Gadgets and Eco Washbag essentials. Now in Part 3 we are going look at what essential eco products you may need for the beach.

Eco Beach Holiday Essentials
We have selected a few key eco items you need to include in preparation for your eco trip to the Beach. It may be a beach in South of France or Weston-Super-Mare, but we still think that they are essential items.

Fair Trade Wide Brim Crochet Panama Hat

Keep the sun of your face in style this summer with this genuine Panama Fair Trade hat. Easily rolled up to fit in your suitcase without loosing its shape. . By purchasing this Fair Trade hat you are helping to improve the livelihoods of hundreds of hat weavers. This genuine Panama hat is suitable for rolling & springs back into shape very well. Handmade made from crocheted straw by a womens co-operative in Ecuador.

Keep the sun of your face in style this summer with this genuine Panama Fair Trade hat. Easily rolled up to fit in your suitcase without loosing its shape. By purchasing this Fair Trade hat you are helping to improve the livelihoods of hundreds of hat weavers.

This genuine Panama hat is suitable for rolling & springs back into shape very well. Handmade made from crocheted straw by a womens co-operative in Ecuador.

£30.00 from Adili

Sarah Smith Large Bath / Beach Towel – Confetti
This premium quality towel is made from 100% Fairtrade certified cotton.

Generously sized and luxuriously soft, the brightly coloured design will look great in your bathroom or on the beach this summer. For added convenience this towel is machine washable.

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

£ 15.95 from Natural Collection

Biodegradable Flip Flops – eco friendly, fair trade, 100% FSC, by Ethletic
These eco friendly flip flops are the essential footwear this summer. They’re fairtrade, biodegradable, comfortable, and perfect for holidays, the beach, or for keeping your feet cool in the summer heat (ahem). Made from latex rubber, these flip flops have a strong sole and are 100% FSC-certified (a world first), they also contain no animal glues, PVC or EVA.

Ethletic pay a Fair Trade premium to the rubber producers in Sri Lanka, and the shoes are produced under a Fair Trade arrangement in Pakistan: The Fair Trade premium there helps pay for health insurance for the workers and a micro credit scheme. Every pair has the FSC logo on. Look good, feel good and retain peace of mind.

£14.97 at Nigel’s Eco Store

Fair Trade Beach Volley Ball – play with peace of mind
This Beach Volley Ball is fully compliant and so can be used in pro tournaments. It works just as well with friends down on the beach! With Fairtrade Foundation logo. The natural latex used to make the bladders in these balls is sourced from sustainably and responsibly managed plantations in South India and Sri Lanka.

They do tend to lose a bit of air naturally, so will need pumping up now and again – this is normal, and also happens with the best professional footballs. Ethletic pay a Fair Trade premium to the rubber producers in Sri Lanka, and the balls are produced under a Fair Trade arrangement in Pakistan: The Fair Trade premium there helps pay for health insurance for the workers and a micro credit scheme.

£10.94 (Special 25% off) from Simplyfair

Quick Sit
They say the simplest ideas are the best and the QuickSit is just that. A nifty new product that’ll make your life easier and is eco-friendly too.

Made in the UK from 100% recycled plastic, your QuickSit arrives neatly flat packed and ready for you to assemble in four easy steps. Then before your eyes, a neat, rather trendy and surprisingly sturdy little seat for you to enjoy.

Once you’re done with your QuickSit, simply fold back down for easy storage. The design even incorporates carry handles to make life even easier.

£14.95 from Love Eco

Jimi Wallet
Made from 100% recycled materials, the Jimi™ wallet is a compact, colorful, water resistant innovation in the normally bland world of mens wallets. It’s designed to slip right into your front pocket and has a removable money clip too.

The Jimi Wallet intentionally doesn’t hold as much stuff as a traditional wallet. It’s slimmer than a regular wallet and unfolds to reveal two compartments, one with a money clip, the other to hold credit cards. It’ll hold five cards and three notes so is the perfect urban accessory, and great in the great outdoors. Already a hit with the cycling and snow sport community, Jimi’s water resistant shell makes it ideal for a huge swathe of outdoor activities.

£13.00 from Love Eco

Remember if you join MoreEco today we will give 500 start up bonus points plus you can earn from 8 points for every pounds spend with our Merchants.

Biodegradable Garden Mulch Film

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Now that growing your own is the new eating out, this biodegradable BioGarden mulch film will come in handy for any green gardeners trying to avoid nasty chemicals in their outdoor patch.

BioGarden is a compostable and biodegradable film for your garden patch and will allow you to have a weed free summer without having to resort to the use of chemicals. It also retains moisture and raises soil temperature through heat absorption thus promoting growth.

BioGarden is suitable for use in vegetable and herb gardens or in flower beds for annuals..

Each Biodegradable Garden Mulch Film costs £6.99 and will earn you over 45 moreeco points and 4.5Kg’s of free carbon offset

Rainmate Slimline Water Butt

With changes to the world’s climate and ever increasing demand on water resources, water butts are now in big demand. With lots of variations on the market, the Rainmate is a unique garden water butt.

This slimline water butt is made from sturdy plastic to the highest specifications, it simply clips together and no tools are required. It has a 200 litre capacity and features a number of special features including its own integral stand, a childproof lid with leaf grill and tap. The lid allows it to be used with a down pipe without the need to cut a hole and it is designed to catch and collect falling rain. A standard down-pipe rain diverter can also be used.

The Rainmate water butt includes an integral, recessed stand for easy access to stored water. To keep the water stored in good condition and to avoid algae growth, rainwater is collected in an internal, replaceable polypropylene bag.

Each Rainmate Slimline Water Butt costs £44.99 and will earn you over 300 moreeco points and 30Kg’s of free carbon offset.

Remember if you join MoreEco today they will give 500 start up bonus points plus you can earn from 8 points for every pounds spend with our Merchants. Use Offer code ‘waterAIDETS’ and they will give £1 to the Ecover WaterAID campaign.

Grow Me and Help Save the Planet

Grow Me and Help Save the Planet – plant this easy to grow silver birch tree grow bag

The ultimate gift to help save the planet? Start the Grow Me tree grow bag indoors on your windowsill, and once large enough to plant out, the compostable packaging means you just have to dig a small hole in your garden or a secluded area, and the packaging will be absorbed back into the earth leaving the tree to do its stuff.

Comes with everything you need to grow a silver birch tree, including seeds and full instructions. Depending on conditions, you should have a small sapling within 2 to 3 months.

Plant loads to reduce your carbon footprint?

Each Grow Me Plant costs £5.99 and will earn you over 40 moreeco points and 4Kg’s of free carbon offset

Handy Water Siphon Pump – recycle water into your garden

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This clever hand siphon pump by WaterGreen enables you to recycle used water into your garden – for example from a bath, water butt or sink – even during a hosepipe ban or Drought Order. Put one end in your bath, water butt, or pond, connect the other end to a hose, squeeze the pump and let gravity siphon your waste water onto your garden.

It moves water simply, cleanly and affordably. It can also be used to empty cisterns, blocked sinks and dishwashing machines. It stores neatly and can be used at any time.

Best of all, you can use your hosepipe to move recycled or rain water, even during a hosepipe ban!

Each Handy Water Siphon Pump costs £19.99 and will earn you over 130 moreeco points and 13Kg’s of free carbon offset

Lemon Tree

This Lemon Tree will look fabulous in a hallway, conservatory or even out on the patio during Summer.

It will produce a crop of big bright yellow Lemons three or four times each year. The resulting lemons are suitable for cooking, adding to your favourite tipple and brightening up the fruit bowl. Lemon Tree supplied is approx. 65cm tall.

Put a little zest into someone’s life and give them a Lemon Tree as a gift.

Each Lemon Tree costs £49.99 and will earn you over 180 moreeco points and 18Kg’s of free carbon offset

Paper Potter

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Paper Potter - turn old newspaper into biodegradable seedling pots.

The Paper Potter is an ingenious device that enables you to turn strips of newspaper into biodegradable plant pots for growing seedlings.

The Paper Potter is great for your plants, allowing minimal disturbance to roots, and saves you money as you will no longer need to buy expensive sowing and seedling pots.

Simple to use, just add your favourite potting compost and seeds.

When seedlings are ready to plant out, transplant them in their bio-degradable paper pots. The Paper Potter comes with full instructions.

Each Paper Potter costs £9.75 and will earn you over 180 moreeco points and 18Kg’s of free carbon offset

Brill Razorcut Premium 38 Eco Lawn Mower – one of the best garden tools you could own

The Brill Razorcut Premium 38 is the very latest push mower from Brill, which supercedes the award winning and extremely popular Luxus range.

Not to be confused with heavy push mowers of old, thanks to Brill’s contact free cutting system and excellent build quality, Brill mowers are unlike any you will have ever used, and make mowing a simple pleasure. Their quiet efficiency brings a peaceful purr back to grass cutting.

This Brill eco lawnmower will undoubtedly rank amongst the best pieces of garden equipment you will ever own!

The Brill Razorcut Premium costs £106.95 and will earn you over 700 moreeco points and 70Kg’s of free carbon offset

Murano Solar Powered Garden Globe – Aqua

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The Murano solar powered garden light globe blends modern technology with centuries old skills of hand blowing glass.

A rather unique and lovely solar decorative garden light – each glass globe contains embedded luminescent crystals which create a magical effect when the light comes on.

Once dark the Aqua globe appears to magically float in the air looking, as it does, very much like planet Earth – truly fabulous and inspiring!

Each Murano Solar Powered Garden Globe costs £19.99 and will earn you over 139 moreeco points and 14Kg’s of free carbon offset

Wildlife World Original Hedgehog House

We know it’s Autumn time and all those poor little animals are looking places to hide for the long Winter.

Wildlife World are a small UK company who specialise in producing wildlife habitats like bat boxes and hedgehog houses. Environmental concerns are not new to Wildlife World, they’ve been making products with an environmental bias for over 10 years.

Products are made from either reclaimed or FSC certified timber and are finished with waterbased paints and stains which are good for the people who make them, and good for animal, bird and insect tenants that move in!

This is the reason why the Eco Trend Spotter kids love this eco home. They retail at about £39.99 an should last a good few years. You can buy them from Ethical Superstore.