Post by @madegooduk

Kitchen sponges aren't sponges. They're plastic foam, polyester fibre and glue, pressed into a block. So every time you scrub, it sheds microplastics into the water system. Two weeks later you bin it and it goes to landfill. The pack tells you all of this on the back, if you ever flip it over. Our supermarket pick is a cellulose sponge, like the Spontex one in the paper pack. Plant cellulose from wood pulp, biodegradable in under three months, and one outlasts a pack of the cheap ones. Want an more an actual scrub? Go one further with Seep. A B Corp, cellulose sponge with a loofah scourer sewn on with cotton instead of glue, so the whole thing home composts. In Tesco now. We went through the whole aisle on day 5 of our feed. Which "eco" sponges still have plastic foam inside, the two identical packs where one's paper and one's plastic, and the zero-packaging option nobody notices. If this made you look twice at your sink, that's the one to watch. Got a UK indie sponge maker you rate? Drop them below and we'll take a look. #sponges #plasticfree #sustainableswaps #ecoswaps #madegood