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Ecoternatives

Cleaning and personal care products, with low-plastic options

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Ecoternatives' Sustainability Rating

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  • Sourcing & Stocking

    Environmentally-mindful sourcing and stocking commitments?: Yes - clear commitments

    Promotes collections that help consumers make conscious decisions?: Yes - offers and promotes

    Stocks any Commons top-rated sustainable brands? (proportion of rateable categories): Yes - few

    Has time-bound targets to improve its sourcing for owned-brand products?: No

    Certifications for owned-brands and products?: No


  • Packaging & Plastics

    Heavy reliance on virgin petro plastic?: No - data is conclusive

    Shares info on ecommerce packaging?:Yes - but reporting could be improved

    Shares info on in-store and upstream packaging?:N/A

    Shares info on own-brand packaging?:No / not found

    Petro-based plastics in packaging?: Yes - but working to reduce

    Recycled plastic?: 100% Recycled

    Uses environmentally-mindful materials (non-plastic) in packaging?: Yes

    These materials include ones that are: recycled, recyclable.

    Targets for improving its packaging materials?: No / not found

    Initiatives to reduce packaging volume / intensity?: No / not found

    Plastic waste reduction through partnerships?: No / not found:


  • Energy & Water Use

    Ecoternatives does not share information on its energy strategy.

    Water conservation measures?: No / not found

    Refrigerant management strategy?: N/A - no refrigerated goods sold

    Efforts to lower shipping emissions (e.g. EVs)?: No / not found

    Any EPA GreenChill certified stores?: N/A - no food or no stores


  • Waste Reduction

    Alt models to promote consumer reuse and recycling?: Refills, reusable products

    Packaging disposal guidance?: No / not found

    Corporate waste reduction initiatives?: No / not found

    Food waste reduction initiatives?: N/A

    Food waste reporting?: N/A


  • Slow Consumption

    Promotes overconsumption?: No


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Sustainability page on consumer site?: Yes - header

    Voluntary annual sustainability report?: No


  • Emissions Tracking

    Commons couldn't find information on this brand's emissions tracking. This process can be an expensive undertaking for small brands.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Science-aligned emissions reduction targets?: No

    Climate neutral certification?: No

    Offsets emissions?: Yes - shipping


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Publishes supplier information for owned production?: No

    Publishes supplier code of conduct?: No

    Code of Conduct covers all applicable suppliers (own-production and stocked-brand)?: N/A

    Labor certifications in supply chain?: Not found

    3rd-party criticisms of supply chain or labor conditions?: No


  • Advocacy

    Discloses all trade association memberships?: Nothing to disclose

    Climate-obstructive trade association memberships: None -

    Pro-climate advocacy memberships?: No

    Employs state lobbyists?: No

    Donated more than $100k to any candidates or PACs from 2018-2024?: No

Ecoternatives has made some intentional environmental decisions and changes in its operations, but still has areas to improve further. It’s a small brand and likely has limited resources, but we hope it can share more information in the future.

Ecoternatives has clear commitments to stock brands that meet environmentally-mindful criteria. Before stocking a brand, the team puts it through an 11-step vetting process. It also carries refills, solid formats, and reusable products to help consumers reduce waste. It doesn't share information on its supply chain or any targets to improve sourcing for its own-brand products.

Ecoternatives has worked to reduce virgin plastic in its packaging, and chooses recycled plastic or recycled paper products instead for its own-brand products and its shipping materials. However, it doesn’t provide any goals for improving its packaging and doesn’t share any corporate waste reduction efforts.

Ecoternatives doesn't provide information on its renewable energy strategy or emissions measurement and reduction efforts.

Our ratings are based on a scale from 1 (harmful) to 5 (best). How we rate →

https://ecoternatives.co/blogs/our-rigorous-testing-process-how-we-re-crushing-the-stigma-that-sustainable-products-don-t-work/how-we-ensure-our-suppliers-are-actually-sustainable

https://ecoternatives.co/pages/our-shipping-materials

https://ecoternatives.co/pages/affordability

https://www.epa.gov/greenchill/greenchill-certified-stores

https://www.climatefriendlysupermarkets.org/scorecard

https://fminus.org/lobbyists/

https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/

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