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42 | www.westendermagazine.com Excess packaging, single use plastic, toxic manufacturing processes – every purchase or service we use has an environmental impact. Loraine Patrick meets three West End companies building businesses around caring for and appreciating our environment. Caroline Thompson-Noble hopes her new venture makes environmentally friendly products more accessible. The Green Place on Dumbarton Road is a one-stop shop for green home and lifestyle items. From sustainable paint brands to locally manufactured cleaning products and natural skin care, she has an alternative to many mainstream products. Describing her carefully thought out stock selection is a real lesson on how to make informed buying choices. She explains the background to her ecologically friendly paint. It’s recycled from unwanted emulsion she says, so it reduces the amount that goes to landfill. ‘The paint goes through a reprocessing process where it is filtered, blended and then has natural pigments added to it. It has a lovely quality to work with and is slightly thicker than trade paint.’ The green on the interior shop wall is one of the 28 shades in the range and reflects the beautiful depth of colour the emulsion can achieve. Caroline estimates around 55 million litres of unwanted paint is thrown out every year and many of us don’t realise how toxic it is. ‘If it gets into water courses it can pollute,’ she warns. It is not just the environment that benefits from going green our health does too. Another brand of paint in store is made entirely from plant derivatives and natural minerals and is safe enough for customers with allergies or respiratory conditions. Caroline explains ‘People often tell you not to paint when you are pregnant; and there is a good reason for that. It was only when I got my own house and started doing it up I realised there are so many chemicals you can be exposed to.’ Cutting down on plastic waste has become a public priority particularly since the impact on the world’s oceans was highlighted in the BBC series Blue Planet 2. The Green Place offers refills on around a dozen household and beauty products. ‘I had a lady in yesterday who filled up five bottles, it maybe took 10 minutes out of her day but I think the amount we are taking out of the earth is too much. It is not sustainable. Business models have to change.’
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