What We Can Do About Environmental Pollutants!
When we think of “environmental pollutants” and their causes, what sort of things come to mind? Typically, we may think of air pollution caused by car fumes, industrial gases, factory…
Palm Oil Investigations Audit Update
Following our recent Palm Oil Investigations Audit, we will be making some changes to our personal care, skin and hair care and cleaning ranges over the next few months. There…
Palm Oil Investigation Audit
Palm Oil Audit As mentioned in our recent newsletter article on palm oil, we are in the process of auditing all of our products in partnership with an organisation called…
Palm Oil and What You Need to Know!
At Santos Organics, we love to help our customers make informed and ethical choices. With palm oil, these choices can be difficult where there are no mandatory labelling requirements in…
Renewable Energy
Over 35 years ago passionate community members in the Northern Rivers decided to establish Santos Organics as a community-owned food retailer, where responsibility and profits were shared amongst local community…
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The Cost of Plastics on our Health
Plastics were first introduced in the 1940’s and were made to last forever. We now use them once, throw them away and they are either buried under the earth where…
Genetically Modified Crops Threaten Bees
The world’s food supply could be under serious threat. Antibiotic resistant genes from genetically modified crops are suspected of decimating the North American bee population. The US is importing millions…
Waste-Free Shopping, Is it a reality?
Shopping waste free (almost completely) for your weekly groceries isn’t as hard as it sounds – there is a few items that we haven’t figured out how to avoid plastic…
A bit of Byron Shire’s Plastic-Free History
Since the early 1970’s the Byron Shire has been home to a plastic-free shopping experience. 45 years on we still stand strong on our war against plastic waste. Santos Organics…
Byron Shire Seeks 31 Actions in 31 Days for Plastic Free July
It’s almost Plastic Free July and our collaborative project Plastic Free Byron is needing our community to get involved. We can also proudly announce that we have been awarded Gold…