Repair Café Algarve
Repair Café Algarve is a project created and organized by Associação Benfazer. Its team of repairers participate in events throughout the Al…
Eco-friendly Products
Things made to last and made with care: cork accessories from Corkor, natural soaps from Hippocampus in Tavira, and eco-textiles from ECOVEST. Buying better, one object at a time.
Projects in this focus
Blanky
Blanky is a fast-growing Portuguese sustainable home textiles brand, best known as the first weighted blanket company in Iberia, offering ba…
ISTO
ISTO. is a Portuguese sustainable fashion brand offering luxury everyday clothing made from organic, natural, and recycled materials, with f…
EcoXperience / EcoX
EcoXperience (EcoX) is a Coimbra-based company founded in 2016 that upcycles used cooking oil into biodegradable liquid detergents and soaps…
Green Tribe People
Green Tribe People is a family-owned Portuguese company distributing Effective Microorganisms (EM) products for agriculture, home care, beau…
Jinja
Jinja is a sustainable design brand in Porto, founded in 2012 by Norma Silva. It makes handmade home products from reused industrial textile…
Hoooked Portugal
Hoooked Portugal, based in Zibreira, Torres Novas, makes 100% recycled yarn from fashion industry waste. Its yarns are for crochet, knitting…
United to Remake (U2R)
United to Remake (U2R) is a Portuguese social innovation startup that works with brands and organisations to upcycle discarded materials, fr…
Ericas
Ericas is a Portuguese company that handcrafts pet toys from 100% natural heather roots using traditional artisan methods. The toys are dura…
Tinctória Natural
Tinctória Natural, a circular-economy project in Alentejo, makes sustainable paints and dyes from agro-food bio-waste and runs workshops, re…
Hippocampus Sabão
Hippocampus Sabão makes natural soap by hand in Tavira, Algarve, inspired by the seahorses of the Ria Formosa lagoon. It is working towards …
ECOVEST
ECOVEST is an eco-friendly Portuguese textile design and manufacturing company in Vila do Conde, specialising in sustainable fashion collect…
Bialógica – Mercearia a Granel
A bulk grocery in São Brás de Alportel, Algarve, selling organic, natural and ecological products and run on zero-waste lines.
Sugo Cork Rugs
Founded in 2017 by textile designer Susana Godinho, Sugo Cork Rugs handweaves bespoke rugs from cork in Espargo, Portugal, combining traditi…
Mind the Trash
Mind the Trash is Portugal's first zero-waste online store, founded in Lisbon in 2017, and sells sustainable, organic and plastic-free produ…
Goparity
Goparity is a regulated crowdfunding platform connecting investors with sustainable projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goa…
Maria Granel
Maria Granel opened in Lisbon in 2015 as Portugal's first bulk organic grocery store, selling organic bulk food and sustainable accessories …
Leafclean
LeafClean, in Faro, sells EU Ecolabel certified, cruelty-free cleaning products and runs a refill system to cut plastic waste. Its range inc…
Electrão
Electrão is Portugal's largest waste management compliance organisation and the only one managing recycling systems for three waste streams:…
Corkor
Corkor is a Portuguese brand that handcrafts vegan accessories from genuine cork in Barreiro, as a cruelty-free alternative to leather. It m…
SENSIHEMP
Sensihemp is a Portuguese regenerative fashion brand based in Póvoa de Varzim, making clothing and accessories from 100% certified hemp, cra…
Terra Lab
Terra Lab is a Portuguese online shop specialising in air plants (tillandsias), kokedamas and other plant-based products for sustainable hom…
Green Embassy
Green Embassy is a Lisbon-based botanical company that designs, installs and maintains indoor plant environments for offices, hotels and hom…
Eco-friendly products from Portugal
Portugal makes a lot of things well and quietly: cork, textiles, ceramics, soap, olive oil. The producers here start from that industrial base rather than from an imported green concept, Some are old factories doing something new.
Sugo handweaves rugs from cork in Santa Maria da Feira. ECOVEST manufactures eco-textiles in Vila do Conde. Leafclean makes Ecolabel-certified cleaning products in Faro, Hippocampus makes soap in Tavira, and Mind the Trash and Maria Granel sell the results without packaging in Lisbon.
Certification is the one thing worth checking; the words on the label are unregulated, the marks on it are not. Related focuses: zero waste living, natural personal care and sustainable fashion. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.