Sustainable living is all about being eco-friendly and promoting a circular economy. Start by supporting these local initiatives and eco-friendly brands that offset your carbon footprint and are gentler on the earth.
Singapore is going big on sustainable development with the Green Plan 2030, where everyone is encouraged to play our part by making a change, however big or small it may be.
A study from the OCBC Climate Index, conducted by OCBC Bank and Eco-Business in 2022, found that personal benefits like better health, cost-savings, and convenience stand as the main motivators for climate change.
Almost half of the total respondents are motivated to live sustainably in order to save money and create an overall cleaner and greener environment. Keen to get involved?
15 Eco-Friendly Home and Living Brands
Here are 15 sustainable living brands that you can incorporate into your everyday home life.
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1. Goodhood.sg
Give and take free things
A ground-up movement revitalising the kampong spirit conveniently through a mobile app, GoodHood is a digital platform that enables Singaporeans to cultivate a giving, helping, and sharing spirit, reducing waste in the process. On the GoodHood platform, you will find listings of things and food items that are
free to grab, the shared virtual storeroom features unused but useful items. You can start by listing your power drill to lend to your neighbours, or putting up a borrow request for a trolley that you would like to use for a couple of days.
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2. City Box Subscription by Edible Garden City
Weekly vegetable subscription
Through community-centric agriculture and a closed-loop farming model, the social enterprise, Edible Garden City is dedicated to creating social change. By subscribing to the City Box Subscription for a weekly bundle of vegetables, you will be supporting the local urban farmers to grow safe and fresh vegetables.
In the box, there are mixed and varying produce of sustainable leafy greens, mushrooms, herbs and fruits as bonus for each week.
Choose from an 8 or 12-week subscription, each box costs from $35.
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3. Rollie Co
Swap out your toilet rolls
Instead of using 100 per cent virgin pulp in toilet rolls, Rollie Co offers toilet rolls made of 100 per cent recycled paper from used books, documents, and industrial paper waste from paper product production too.
As toilet papers are single-use items that cannot be reused or recycled, using toilet rolls made from recycled paper reduces the need to cut down more trees. Of course, using the bidet will remove paper use entirely, but the choice is yours.
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4. Soap Ministry
Make your own handmade soap
Behind Soap Ministry is a mother’s love, where the founder, Diana Ong, took matters into her own hands by making handmade soap to improve and reduce relapses of her daughter’s skin condition.
Started in 2010 as a handmade soap retailer, Soap Ministry now offers soap-making courses providing you with the opportunity to make your own bars, from cold-pressed soaps to bath bombs. Only organic, natural, and bio-degradable ingredients that are good for the skin and safe for the environment are used.
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5. The Green Collective
Sustainable micro brands
The future is green with The Green Collective, Singapore’s largest collective of local sustainable brands, including micro brands made easily available across its online marketplaces and retail shops.
You can make better choices by choosing sustainable everyday product alternatives, from reusable sanitary pads made of unbleached organic cotton (starting at $9.90 each), to a stain remover stick to help with any dirt and stains from your laundry for $12.
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6. The Sustainability Project
Sustainability workshop
Want to kickstart a sustainable lifestyle, but not sure how? On top of sharing the knowledge and passion for sustainability through blog articles since 2018, The Sustainability Project has expanded education efforts to talks and workshops.
Today, they offer a range of workshops, from making your own recycled handmade paper in the traditional way, to upcycling orange peels by transforming them into eco enzymes and body scrub. The duration of each workshop is about an hour each and costs $50 per person.
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7. Unpackt
Refill daily necessities, packaging-free
Frustrated by the amount of unnecessary packaging your purchases come in? Unpackt has the perfect solution, by providing package-free food and household essentials in bulk refillable containers.
Established in 2018, the brick-and- mortar zero-waste grocery and lifestyle store now offers online ordering and deliveries as well. Orders are delivered in reusable containers that are returned on the next delivery, or you can choose the paper kraft bag option at a small cost.
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8. Treatsure
Save surplus food
Treatsure minimises food waste through a share-and-reallocate concept, where excess food from hotels and businesses are redistributed to everyday consumers at an affordable price point.
Apart from hotel buffets that you can takeaway in a box, you can also save on your groceries by purchasing the surplus from various distributors and suppliers on the Treatsure app. The savings can be quite substantial, with a bottle of organic extra virgin oil (250ml), normally costing $19.90, priced at just $11.95 instead. This initiative is certainly easier on the planet and your wallet too.
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9. Solar-Cell Remote by Samsung
Goodbye single use batteries, and hello to a first-of- its-kind remote control with a built-in solar panel. Released in 2021, this innovation by Samsung made it into the list as one of The Best Inventions in 2022 by Time Magazine, with its environmentally-friendly design. The self-charging mode in the Solar-Cell Remote charges using both natural sunlight and artificial indoor light, or through the USB-C charge port located at the bottom.
The latest 2023 iteration also uses less recycled plastic and a 22 per cent smaller casing, which enhances its sustainability and user-friendliness. In addition to its low power consumption, the remote control could also get electricity by being near to radio frequency emitting devices such as Wi-Fi routers.
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10. Muuse
Borrow a reusable container for free
Forgot to bring your own container for takeaway? You are free to borrow, enjoy, and return the reusable takeaway container later when you are at any of Muuse’s partner cafes.
The local startup, Muuse (also known as multiple use in short) has a loan- and-return system that tracks the total number of borrows individually and worldwide with the unique QR code on every reusable. You can borrow and return the container via the Muuse app with a simple scan. Leave the washing to the experts, as the reusables get professionally cleaned.
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11. Package Pals
Donate used packaging
More online shopping means more packaging waste. Package Pals is a circular packaging initiative that collects used packaging like poly mailers, envelopes, and bubble wrap from the public and distributes them back to businesses, extending the life cycle of packaging and reducing packaging waste.
If you sell your preloved items online and wish to receive the used mailer packaging, you can submit a form to express your interest online. Remember to remove your personal details from any used packaging first!
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12. Vermont Soap
Mobile liquid soap refill delivery
Soap refill delivery, anybody? Established in 1992, the USDA-approved and certified organic Vermont Soap from the US is now available in Singapore. Apart from using natural ingredients for its products, Vermont Soap also offers a mobile refill program for its hi-olive shower gel and liquid castile soaps.
Sign up to select the size and scent of choice before the liquid soap van arrives. You can reuse any bottle for the soap refill, starting at $64 for approximately two litres.
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13. Project 2×2 by Two of a Kind
Recycle contact lens blisters
As an ongoing not-for- profit initiative by the contact lens supplier Two of a Kind, Project 2×2 has collected and recycled over one million used contact lens plastic blisters from all contact lens brands in 2022.
So next time, instead of throwing your used blisters away, fill it in a recycling envelope and drop them at an advocate location or mail it to the team, where they get processed and reused as raw material after.
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14. Minimakers Beeswax Wrap
Buy reusable beeswax wrap
Beautifully designed reusable beeswax food wraps are a delightful eco-friendly alternative to flimsy disposable cling wrap. Minimakers began as a humble experiment from home, where the founder Kai made all of the wraps by hand using all-natural and biodegradable ingredients of cotton, beeswax, jojoba oil, and tree resins.
The beeswax wraps can be rewaxed after a year of use to further prolong its usage. At $9.90, you can get a beeswax wrap in a small size, that is perfect for half of an avocado.
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15. Onhand Agragrian
Monthly seafood subscription
What started as a dream to sell sustainable seafood, Onhand Agrarian was born out of a love for the ocean by founder, Shannon Lim.
Thanks to the specially designed closed-loop zero-waste farming system that recycles the waste of one species as food for the other, the fishes survive longer without exposure to harmful fertilisers.
Subscribers can look forward to an assortment of crabs and seafood monthly from $80 for a three-kilogram seafood box, delivered in reusable containers.