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Echologika was created to accelerate the reduction of plastic packaging through the delivery of plastic-free, sustainable, degradable, single-use hygienic waste containers—internationally patented in 2018. 

Their containers reduce the annual global consumption of approximately 380 billion litres of oil and 140 million tonnes of plastic packaging by replacing the UK’s reliance on around 300 million litres of oil and 100,000 tonnes of plastic bins and liners discarded each year to landfill and incineration. These plastic products deplete finite resources, release harmful petrochemical toxins into the environment, degrade public health, increase pressure on healthcare systems, and embody enough non-renewable energy to power 1.1 million households, artificially inflating energy demand and costs. 

In contrast, full adoption of Echologika containers across the UK would require significantly less production energy—equivalent to powering just half a million homes—while delivering net negative CO₂ emissions through biogenic incineration whilst avoiding toxic petrochemical emissions, supporting a circular economy, and enabling the scalable recovery of clean, renewable energy through anaerobic digestion. 

Their containers are designed to support habitual, systemic and sustainable change fit for the 21st century and to consign 1950’s methodology to history.

https://www.echologika.com

SESI was born in 2006 in the shed of their kid’s primary school, with the support of the community and later their emerging Oxford city farmers markets. In 2018 they took the leap and set up a new incarnation of SESI, spreading their services across the UK and the Channel Islands. S

SESI are a social enterprise working with businesses and end users to effectively reduce their plastic footprint and cut waste and pollution between producer and customer. They continue to innovate and design solutions that are practical, accessible to the majorities and that enable businesses – farmers, manufacturers, and retailers – to become part of the circular economy. 

A closed loop wholesaler, they supply ethical food, toiletries and household detergents to shops, farmers markets, universities, cooperatives, charity organisations and more. As well as caring about reducing plastic pollution, they work on the research and designing of products that are harmless to people and planet. They are proud to say that in 2025 they surpassed their 5 millionth piece of packaging saved from being created!

https://sesi.org.uk