About us

 

We are not just an eco-friendly brand, we are eco lovely because we love the environment. With your help, we believe we can make this planet a better, healthier and plastic-free place to live.

Mahatma Gandhi famously said, "You must be the change you want to see in the world." With this in mind, we created Green Capim to offer you a great variety of products at an affordable price to inspire and encourage everyone to switch to reusable and more sustainable products in their everyday life, helping reduce consumption of single-use plastic and disposable items.

 

 

 

 

 

Eco Lovely Forest

 

 

 

Green Capim is part of a Climate Positive Workforce, with Ecologi. We have our own forest, which grows approx. 24 trees every month, and we support incredible, science-backed climate projects around the world. These range from landfill gas capture in Chile to clean cooking stoves in Malawi. Ecologi calculate our carbon footprint based on data from the World Bank, which reports CO2 and other greenhouse emissions that occur here in Switzerland. Then these data are combined with imported emissions (for products manufactured overseas) using data from Global Carbon Project. Finally, they add 15% to this value to ensure we are becoming climate positive by offsetting more than our footprint. At the moment, our total is 28T CO2 to be offset over the course of a year. You can check the status of our forest here.

 

If you like this collective climate action and decide to sign up after seeing our page, they will plant extra 50 trees both in your and our forest! You can sign up as an individual and/or as a business here.

 

 

 

Did you know?

 

 

 

"Capim" means grass in the Brazilian Portuguese language.

 

The word "capim" was originated from the term caá pi'i, which means “narrow leaf”, in the language spoken by the tribes of Tupi people that inhabited most of the coast of Brazil in the 16th century.

 

Environments where grasses are dominant, such as savannah and prairie, are estimated to constitute 40.5% of the land area of the Earth (excluding Greenland and Antarctica). But the grasses are also an important part of the vegetation in many other habitats, like the wetlands, forests and tundra.

 

 

 

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We are passionate about the environment, and support a number of causes worldwide in any way we can.