Young, broke, but still environmentally friendly - student cheat codes to sustainable living
- Beatrix Nitschke
- Apr 2, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 3, 2022
Are you looking for ways to both save money as a student and still be able to protect the world from the climate crisis? Then these discounts could help you in this mission.
Always hunting for the lowest priced products, looking for cheap alternatives and trying to save money where it’s possible. The life without a stable financial income forces students to prioritise quantity before quality. Therefore, environmentally friendly products are often completely out of their reach since those are most often higher priced than the regular products. Nevertheless, there are some environmentally friendly companies that noticed this problem and therefore give students the possibility to get a discount. Here are some of them:
Hygiene and personal care products
Regardless of how annoying cleaning is, we all need cleaning products. However, many of them contain plastic packaging and microplastics which are both extremely harmful for the environment. Everdrop, therefore, came up with an idea to solve this issue- refillable cleaning products.
Similar to the concept of Everdrop is also the mission of Future Stories that offer refillable products. Nevertheless, instead of cleaning products, they put their focus on soaps, shampoos, and conditioners.
For menstruating people there is no way without period products. Nevertheless, the regular products such as pads and tampons often contain plastic that are not only dangerous for the health of the people that are using it, but also for the environment when they are being thrown away. Therefore, The Female Company set itself the goal to offer environmentally friendly substitutes.
Food and drinks
In order to fight plastic pollution, SoulBottle set itself the mission of creating trendy glass and steel bottles, that help people avoid constantly having to buy water in plastic bottles.
Etepetete (only available in Germany and Austria)
Ridiculous beauty standards are not only a concept that exists for humans, but also for our food. This often leads to vegetables and fruits being sorted out even before getting to the super markets, simply because they might be slightly deformed or have other blemishes. This is not only unnecessary, but also harms the environment as it leads to food waste. What Etepetete does is to save blemished organic vegetables and fruits and sells them.
Clothes and accessories
The global plastic waste and with it the pollution of oceans is a serious issue that the world is struggling with. Got Bag is a company that tries to tackle this issue by using the plastic waste and recycle it into new, robust, and stylish bags.
Fast fashion is not only another enemy of the environment, but it is also often connected to unfair working conditions. Greenbomb, however, is producing and selling clothes that have a reduced environmental impact and are additionally produced under ethical conditions.
Same as Greenbomb, Erlich Textiles wants to fight the environmental harmful nature of many clothing items. Thus, in their business concept they are focusing on producing ethical undergarments.
Further places to get discounts
For further student discounts on environmentally friendly products you could also check out the websites listed above. Depending on the country you're a student in there might be different discounts available, among others for sustainable brands and products.
In case you are not a student, you could also use the TreeApp. There, you do not only have the chance to get to know environmentally friendly businesses, but you also get the chance to plant a tree and receive discounts simply for watching short little advertising clips of them.
Hopefully, this post was able to show you affordable and environmentally friendly products that you were not yet aware of and inspire you to buy more sustainably in the future. Also, in case you know more affordable sustainable brands or places where students could get discounts for environmentally friendly products, please feel free to share them in the comments :)
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