We are delighted at Fair Squared to have had a leading retailer support us in creating the first commercial fair trade condom, designed to offer an ethical alternative to the traditional main stream corporates.
20 Feb 2011 11:17
Choose Fair, Play Safe
Waitrose is first supermarket to stock fairly traded condoms
The ethical movement is going behind the bedroom door, as fairly traded condoms launch at a UK supermarket for the first time.
Many of us are aware of the ethical and environmental effects of such common household items as sugar and soap, which regularly appear in bathrooms and kitchens across Britain.
Waitrose buyer Siobhan Bowie says, ‘We have come a long way since the days of people thinking fair trade is just about bananas and coffee, so it makes perfect sense to start introducing customers to more innovative and fairly traded products. These condoms are not only an exciting development in the fair trade movement, but come with the highest quality credentials and are produced in an area of India which is in dire need of support. We are proud that our customers can now practice safe sex and support a good cause at the same time - you can’t say fairer than that.’
The supermarket will be stocking two types of condoms from FairSquared, a small ethical supplier based in Newcastle. Made from fair trade rubber farmed in South India, the Keralan workers who produce the rubber benefit from fair prices, fair working conditions and fair supplier relationship. Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, sourced from a responsibly managed plantation, and produced in a carbon neutral environment, these condoms have the strongest ethical credentials around.
Notes to Editors:
FairSquared fair trade condoms will be available at selected Waitrose branches from 4th April, priced at £6.99. Ultra thin condoms will be in 159 branches and Ribbed condoms will be in 35 branches.
More about FairSquared
Based in the Newcastle, FairSquared is a supplier of ethical products, with an online site selling FairSquared branded food, cosmetics & toiletries, gifts, chocolate and footwear. Led by the two founders, Salvatore and Melanie, their range includes Fairtrade marked products - only from Pioneers not corporates, Fair local toiletries and creams that are 100% natural using Organic ingredients. For more info, please visit www.fairsquared.co.uk.
Monday, 7 March 2011
The Ecology Song
Fairsquared have more than a passing interest in our environment which is in part born out of a love for the late great Marvin Gaye
On the track Mercy Mercy Me – he sang
“Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east
Woo mercy, mercy me, mercy father
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas, fish full of mercury.”
The Irony is that written in 1971 yet the same issues still resonate today... BP in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 .
We take inspiration and pay homage to a number of organisations that are fighting on our behalf to tackle climate change, and in particular taking the large corporates to task .
The Song asks the following question
“What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?”
At Fairsquared our commitment and small contribution to a major global problem is to ensure the following :
We will minimise the use of packaging in everything we do.
We will use recycled materials and ensure our product containers are recyclable or bio degradable.
All of our products will be sourced with care and concern for the people and the environment used to grow and manufacture our products.
Our ingredients will never be tested on animals
We will not purchase from unsustainable sources .
Airfreight will not be used to bring goods in faster.
Our products will be transported to customers from our Central UK location direct from us – cutting out uneccessary transportation.
Natural , Fair trade and Organic is all we aim to do .
Our site will be constantly updated with news articles and blogs concerning the environment and we will support through donation and campaigning the groups that we believe in.
Those organisations that continue to ignore their responsibiliites and hide behind corporate greenwash programmes will of course be held to account – you have been warned.
Doing just enough is not in our Nature !
Outrageously Ethical
http://www.fairsquared.co.uk
On the track Mercy Mercy Me – he sang
“Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east
Woo mercy, mercy me, mercy father
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas, fish full of mercury.”
The Irony is that written in 1971 yet the same issues still resonate today... BP in the Gulf of Mexico 2010 .
We take inspiration and pay homage to a number of organisations that are fighting on our behalf to tackle climate change, and in particular taking the large corporates to task .
The Song asks the following question
“What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from man can she stand?”
At Fairsquared our commitment and small contribution to a major global problem is to ensure the following :
We will minimise the use of packaging in everything we do.
We will use recycled materials and ensure our product containers are recyclable or bio degradable.
All of our products will be sourced with care and concern for the people and the environment used to grow and manufacture our products.
Our ingredients will never be tested on animals
We will not purchase from unsustainable sources .
Airfreight will not be used to bring goods in faster.
Our products will be transported to customers from our Central UK location direct from us – cutting out uneccessary transportation.
Natural , Fair trade and Organic is all we aim to do .
Our site will be constantly updated with news articles and blogs concerning the environment and we will support through donation and campaigning the groups that we believe in.
Those organisations that continue to ignore their responsibiliites and hide behind corporate greenwash programmes will of course be held to account – you have been warned.
Doing just enough is not in our Nature !
Outrageously Ethical
http://www.fairsquared.co.uk
Supporting People & Planet
We have met with the team at People and Planet recently and are very impressed with 2 campaigns they are running at the moment.
In order to support their work we have made available our best selling Fairtrade trainer as a fund raiser for People and Planet.
All net proceeds from the sale of these trainers will be donated to People and Planet each month.
Here is what they have to say with links to the campaigns in more depth.
Buy Right campaign
Universities spend £8 billion a year on the things that students use day-to-day. Much of this money goes to big companies with appalling records of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
Students around the UK are now demanding that our universities take action. The Buy Right campaign defends human rights throughout university supply chains.
http://peopleandplanet.org/buyright/takeaction
Our successes include forcing Fruit of the Loom to allow unions to organise in all their Honduran factories, and helping to push Nike into paying $1.5m legally mandated redundancy pay to a group of Honduran workers.
Wear Fair
Young people don’t want their schools and colleges to be full of clothes that make farmers in the global South suffer. UK schools and colleges buy millions of pounds worth of clothes every year. But usually these garments are not made with Fairtrade cotton, and may have been produced by children, or by women barely older than you, for as little as 5p per hour for 80 hours a week. Young people are calling for the education sector
to Wear Fair!
http://peopleandplanet.org/buyright/takeaction
http://www.fairsquared.co.uk/blog/supporting-people-planet
In order to support their work we have made available our best selling Fairtrade trainer as a fund raiser for People and Planet.
All net proceeds from the sale of these trainers will be donated to People and Planet each month.
Here is what they have to say with links to the campaigns in more depth.
Buy Right campaign
Universities spend £8 billion a year on the things that students use day-to-day. Much of this money goes to big companies with appalling records of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
Students around the UK are now demanding that our universities take action. The Buy Right campaign defends human rights throughout university supply chains.
http://peopleandplanet.org/buyright/takeaction
Our successes include forcing Fruit of the Loom to allow unions to organise in all their Honduran factories, and helping to push Nike into paying $1.5m legally mandated redundancy pay to a group of Honduran workers.
Wear Fair
Young people don’t want their schools and colleges to be full of clothes that make farmers in the global South suffer. UK schools and colleges buy millions of pounds worth of clothes every year. But usually these garments are not made with Fairtrade cotton, and may have been produced by children, or by women barely older than you, for as little as 5p per hour for 80 hours a week. Young people are calling for the education sector
to Wear Fair!
http://peopleandplanet.org/buyright/takeaction
http://www.fairsquared.co.uk/blog/supporting-people-planet
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