Ekologi started life as a small riverside workshop in South Wales in 2011, building rustic furniture from old reclaimed pallets. The business made its mark selling rustic spice racks and started to focus on it’s most popular line, which was shelving.   Whilst they still provide rustic shelving and spice racks, they want their shop to be so much more. After two years of hard work, in March 2020 they opened a retail store, offering wholefood refills and eco toiletries.  Since…

American actor and singer Zac Efron highlights the huge issue of London’s plastic waste problem as part of a new series on Netflix airing in the UK from 10 July. Efron visited a key plastic waste hotspot at the scenic Concrete Barges, Rainham, an area of Essex saltmarsh where tonnes of lightweight plastic waste from the capital accumulates, forming huge plastic carpets.Thousands of single-use bottles, cotton buds and food containers wash up on the strandline at high tide, and local…