H&M has launched an ethical fashion brand called the “Conscious Collection” as part of its drive to becoming a more sustainable and ethical fashion retailer. The Conscious Collection clothing range is made from environmentally adapted and greener materials such as organic cotton and recycled polyester. Read more...

The Good Shopping Guide has launched a new ethical shopping app for (initially) £2.99 revealing the good, bad and ugly of the world’s leading brands, (based on the the world’s best-selling ethical shopping guide which retails at £14.95). The app allows consumers to get up to date advice on the ethical status of goods and services as they shop through their mobile phone. 10% of net revenue will go to Friends of the Earth.

A Which? study of 14 household items including laundry tablets, toilet cleaners and nappies found almost half were marketed with green claims that the companies did not support with convincing evidence. In response Tesco had agreed to change the packaging of its Tesco Naturally toilet cleaner as a result. Experts who examined Tesco, Sainsbury's, Green Force and Ecover toilet cleaners believed each had at least one green claim that was not proven by the manufacturer's evidence.

The re-use, recycle, reduce matra has obviously been lost on the big cheeses at Borders who according to reports are planning to bin unsold books. With Haiti as a backdrop this awful corporate behaviour beggars belief. In the wake of the recent story that H&M and Walmart have been ditching unsold clothing in bins behind their shops, some Borders employees have outed their company for plans to trash tens of thousands of books when they close over 200 store locations by the end of January.