Environment Sustainability

My illness forced me to take a closer look at my life: symptoms, prognosis and crucially my diet. As I learned how different foods and macronutrients interact with the body, my curiosity widened to the tools we regularly use to store, prepare and cook our food.

I’ve always preferred preparing our meals from scratch, I’m no chef, but can cook a little and the illness pushed me into using pretty much just whole foods.

Later I began to think about our own cookware and question their design and the materials used. That led me to buy the book, Cradle to Cradle and later to explore the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s work on the circular economy; those ideas opened my eyes to fundamental design failures in everyday products, and to practical ways they could be improved.

On this website is a concise reflection of some of my findings, the ethos and some reputable accreditations to look out for. A small selection of materials that, when used thoughtfully, can reduce environmental harm and in some cases actually benefit the planet.

At Aardelia we will apply Cradle to Cradle and The Circular Economy way of thinking when listing, recommending or producing products, the goal is to reduce or eliminate waste.

When you think about it, nature doesn’t generate waste; but we do, and in vast quantities. Our current systems create long term problems with huge volumes of waste resulting in persistent pollution to land, sea and air.

Recycling, can be great for some materials with strict quality systems in place. For others however recycling is limited, this is due to contaminated materials entering the recycling stream, this degrades the quality until it’s no longer recyclable and ultimately also becomes waste.