Welcome to the Friday Bargain Bucket Round up, your weekly glance into the vortex of late-capitalist doom! This week, I’ll be investigating a strange and paradoxical phenomenon: ETHICAL CRAP. Can something be cheap, nasty AND also good for the planet? What eco-friendly bargains can we find that aren’t a sponge or a wooden stick from Guatemala? Does recycling something make it ethical or is it just a slightly different kind of absolute garbage?
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Anyway, with apologies to Planet Earth, let’s pick through the ashes of the apocalypse for some (allegedly) ethical ‘gems’…
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