What we can prove
This page contains no promises. It contains figures, drawn from our own catalogue and recalculated every time it loads. When the catalogue changes, they change with it.
Our catalogue holds 324 products. What you see here is not a flattering selection: it is all of them, with what they can back up and what they cannot.
100 %
of our products show their country of manufacture.
All 324 are filled in, without exception. And that is precisely what lets us say the rest: 319 of them, or 98 %, are made outside Europe.
There is no European equivalent for what we sell, at the volumes and prices of promotional textiles. Writing “reshoring” would be a promise we would not keep. What we can do is demand the evidence: 234 products come from a BSCI or SMETA audited site.
Breakdown as declared by suppliers
- China227
- Bangladesh74
- India8
- Portugal4
- Other countries11
What makes it into the catalogue
A product does not get in because it looks green. Each product page shows what a third party has verified (material, factory) or what the supplier publishes (origin, footprint), and, failing that, its brand’s documented concept, stated as such. Today, 227 of our 324 products carry at least one material certification, and 46 carry at least two.
9 products carry neither a material certification nor a social audit: their page relies on their brand’s documented concept.
Browse the catalogueThe catalogue, measured
Out of 324 published products, computed at render from the same data that feeds the product pages.
GRS, RCS, GOTS, OCS, FSC or OEKO-TEX. AWARE is not counted here: it is a material tracer, not a certification.
They come from a BSCI or SMETA audited site. The audit covers working conditions, not the material.
They show their country of manufacture. An origin is attested, never guessed.
Their carbon footprint is published by their supplier. Elsewhere the line is simply absent.
253 of 324 products display a measured carbon footprint, published by their supplier, or 78 %.
Among the 169 products whose supplier also publishes their category average, 167 sit below that average, or 99 %. The product page shows the gap both ways, below as well as above.
What each proof attests, and what it does not
No label says “this product is ecological”. Each one says one precise thing, over a precise scope. Here is what our products carry, by nature of evidence.
Recycled material
GRS and RCS trace the share of recycled material, from source to finished product. They say nothing about working conditions.
Organic cotton
GOTS and OCS attest the organic growing of the fibre. GOTS adds social criteria, OCS does not.
Wood, paper, cork
FSC attests a sustainably managed forest. It measures no carbon footprint.
Harmful substances
OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 attests the absence of harmful substances in the finished product. It is neither an organic label nor a social one.
Social audit
BSCI and SMETA audit the factory, not the product. They say nothing about the material.
Material traceability
AWARE is a physical tracer added to the fibre: it verifies that a declared material is genuinely there. It is not an environmental certification, and we do not count it as one.
Brands with a concept
10 products carry no material certification. Their argument is not a label: it is what their brand does. We say so by naming the brand, and by separating what is verified from what is merely stated.
Circular&Co
3 productsThe brand makes its products from waste, designs them to last about ten years and aims for 100 % recyclability at end of life. Its bottle is made of 92 % recycled content from fourteen used PET bottles, a figure present in the supplier catalogue. Mission published by the brand, founded by a former Dyson designer.
Originalhome
3 productsA social enterprise: fair trade with small workshops in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Tanzania, and 20 % of profits given to local causes. Its glasses and carafes are shaped by hand from bottles collected in the hospitality trade of Zanzibar and Goa. Commitments published by the brand.
Karst
1 productCertified B Corporation, 2023 score of 97.9, verified in the B Lab registry. Its stone paper contains no plant fibre at all: it is calcium carbonate bound with resin. No forestry standard can therefore apply to it, and that is the nature of the material, not a gap.
Ocean Bottle
1 productCertified B Corporation, public score 107.6, verified by B Lab. According to the programme published by the brand, every bottle bought funds the collection of 11.4 kg of coastal plastic. That figure is stated by the brand, with no third-party verification.
Rebottled
1 productThe Dutch brand collects empty wine bottles from hotels and restaurants, then turns them into everyday objects. These glasses are made of 100 % recycled glass, and their green tint comes from that recycling. Process attested by the brand and by our supplier catalogue.
Sproutworld
1 productCertified B Corporation, score 105.6, verified in the B Lab registry. Its manufacturing site is SMETA audited. Its pencil is planted at the end of its life and comes from a Polish workshop, therefore European. The brand states that it uses wood from FSC or PEFC certified forests; that last point we have not verified with any certifying body.
What we do not know
71 products show no carbon footprint.
Their supplier publishes no life-cycle assessment. We do not compute one in their place: a footprint inferred from a weight and a material would be an invented number, not a measurement.
Check for yourself
Every product page shows its evidence, and the absence of it where there is none. It is the same data as this page.