Christmas journey reward information: 20 sustainable current concepts | Buying journeys
Journey reward units
Kip Hideaways, a members-only boutique staycation web site, has two new reward units: the journey set and the sleep set. Every features a 12 months’s membership (the corporate crops a tree for each member), plus Bramley toiletries and Elizabeth Scarlett embroidered equipment.
From £53, kiphideaways.com
Journey rucksack
A thoughtfully designed 42-litre rucksack with a number of pockets – for laptops, playing cards, sneakers, water bottles, valuables – however sufficiently small to take as carry-on. Made out of recycled plastic by a sustainable British model with an in-house restore service.
£185, stubbleandco.com
Restricted-edition prints
The Woods sells limited-edition high quality artwork pictures impressed by journey, nature and journey, printed in London. Reward playing cards are additionally accessible, so the recipient can select their very own {photograph}.
From £70, thewoods.co
Washbag made from plastic bottles
Designed within the Lake District and ethically made in Vietnam from recycled plastic bottles (4 per bag). Millican additionally sells recycled plastic backpacks.
£18, homeofmillican.com
Speckly passport cowl
The passport cowl from Liga’s Seaside Clear assortment is produced from recycled flip-flops and sustainable cork – good for disguising a post-Brexit blue British passport.
£14.95, loveliga.co.uk
Nice white shark towel
Padi, the diving organisation, has a spread of garments, equipment and towels produced from recycled ocean plastic. This limited-edition towel was designed for shark week 2021.
£27, padigear.internet
Wild swimming scented candle
Totally different Type is a brand new moral on-line retailer stocking merchandise by manufacturers resembling Goldfinger, which makes use of recycled supplies and gives coaching for deprived younger folks. The scent of its soy-wax candle evokes “the chilly shock of water underneath a wonderful sky”.
£32, thedifferentkind.com
Sending Hugs reward field
This features a “random recycled wool” rug from Atlantic Blankets, produced from leftover wool and preferrred for picnics, plus a caramel sea-salt chocolate bar.
£38, atlanticblankets.com
Let’s Get Misplaced pictures guide
Subtitled “the world’s most gorgeous distant areas”, this new panorama guide curated by Finn Beales incorporates greater than 200 pictures of seashores, mountains, forests, wildernesses, lakes and rivers by 21 photographers. Inspiration for adventurers and armchair travellers alike.
£23.25, UK.bookship.org
Hat and fingerless mittens
Designed in Orkney and knitted within the Scottish Borders from luxury-grade, cruelty-free lamb’s wool, utilizing environment-friendly dyes. The corporate additionally makes scarves, blankets and throws.
From £47, hilarygrant.co.uk
Planet-friendly espresso subscription
The Mayni group in Peru develop espresso utilizing agroforestry methods, which defend the Amazon, and Simple Jose pays them a premium for it. It sells three-, six-, nine- and 12-month subscriptions (two 250g baggage a month).
£18 a month, easyjosecoffee.co.uk
Sustainable sunnies
Sun shades produced from recycled “ghost gear” – misplaced or discarded fishing nets – collected from UK seashores. Purchases additionally help Waterhaul’s recycling workshops in colleges and communities.
From £60, waterhaul.co
Deluxe festive hamper
A home made basket containing 17 wild UK merchandise, from hogweed salt to dried hen of the woods mushrooms, and many booze: damson wine, currant vodka, sloe cider, medlar liqueur and candy cicely fizz. Smaller hampers (£35/55) and Secret Santa bins (£20) additionally accessible.
£100, Foragebox.co.uk
Herb teas, honey and pot
Crate incorporates 4 seasonal Wild Infusions teas made from herbs, fruits and flowers both grown on Wild Cornwall’s regenerative farm or foraged, plus jars of uncooked wildflower honey and honey pearls, and a teapot and teacup. The crate may be repurposed as a planter; seeds are offered.
£65, wildcornwall.internet
Wild Treatment poetry capsules
Handmade on the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Fort, Shropshire, these capsules should not for swallowing however include poetic extracts on the theme of nature, resembling a couple of traces from The Peace of Wild Issues by Wendell Berry. Different poetry prescriptions accessible.
£5.50, poetrypharmacy.co.uk
Vitamin Sea calendar
Designed and printed within the UK on recycled paper, utilizing 80% renewable power, delivered in minimal and plastic-free packaging. Considered one of a spread of nature-inspired wall calendars.
£16.50, onceuponatuesday.co.uk
Atlas of Forgotten Locations
The most recent title within the Sudden Atlas collection, this guide by Travis Elborough tells the story of 40 deserted locations across the globe, from a ghost city within the Arizona desert to the exclusion zone across the Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat.
£18.60, uk.bookshop.org
Swimsuit for winter dips
Girls’s long-sleeve swimwear produced from regenerated nylon yarn and designed to “survive a dive, pull off a cliff bounce and deal with a waterfall”.
It’s reversible too, with black and ocean inexperienced sides.
£150, davyj.com
Useful hip pack
Made out of recycled nylon and polyester in a good commerce manufacturing facility. Might be worn round waist or bandolier-style, and suits necessities resembling cellphone, keys, playing cards, sun shades and face masks. Stows in its personal pocket when not in use.
£25, eu.patagonia.com
Bellyboards to final
Promising browsing “with out all of the fuss, with all of the enjoyable”, these bellyboards are handmade from sustainable birch plywood at a workshop in Newquay, Cornwall – an eco various to throwaway polystyrene boards.
From £55, dickpearce.com
