The Ecoxee Shop
Sustainable Products We Actually Recommend
Every eco-friendly pick from our guides and reviews, gathered in one place — chosen on merit, never for commission.
Browse our full collection of 103 sustainable, plastic-free and reusable products, organised by category. Every item here appears in one of our hands-on reviews or guides, so you can read the full verdict before you buy.
Ecoxee is an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. Learn more.
Garden & Outdoors
Sustainable tools and supplies for growing your own — from seed-starting and soil blocking to feeding the birds.
Bird Buddy Pro Solar smart bird feeder
The photo-quality pick. Crisp 2K video, excellent AI bird identification, and a neat integrated solar roof that keeps it charged with no separate panel to position. Its curated highlight reels are the best in class. Just budget for the small monthly Pro subscription to unlock cloud storage and the best features.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
NETVUE Birdfy Bamboo bird feeder with camera
The greenest pick here: renewable bamboo instead of plastic, solar-powered so there is nothing to plug in, and 2K live streaming with lifetime free AI bird identification and no subscription to pay. A large seed hopper means fewer refills, making it the eco-minded, no-ongoing-fees choice for backyard birdwatching.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
VIVOSUN waterproof seedling heat mat
A durable, waterproof warming mat that gently lifts soil temperature for far more reliable germination of heat-lovers like peppers, tomatoes, and basil that sulk in a cold room. It is a buy-once tool you will reuse every spring for years, and it ends the frustration of patchy, slow, or failed sowings.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
Compressed coco coir pellets (55-pack, 30mm)
Peat-free expanding plugs that skip the peat-bog damage of old-style pellets: add water, watch them swell, sow, and later plant the whole thing. Convenient and mess-free for beginners and big batches alike. If any pellet comes wrapped in a thin net, tear it off at transplant so the roots are never restricted.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
Esschert Design wooden paper pot maker
The classic wooden tool that rolls strips of newspaper into small, plantable pots, turning your recycling into free seed pots with nothing to buy again. Plant the whole pot so roots are not disturbed, and it simply composts away in the soil. A buy-once tool that lasts for many seasons of sowing.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
Authentic Ladbrooke Mini 4 soil blocker
The pick from our review: the genuine, made-in-England Mini 4 that presses four 2-inch soil blocks at a time for truly pot-free, plastic-free seed starting. Look for the Ladbrooke logo stamped on the handle to avoid the flimsy copies, and pair it with a coir-based blocking mix for clean, sturdy blocks.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
Blank kraft seed envelopes (100-pack)
Prefer not to fold your own? These small, self-adhesive kraft envelopes are the perfect ready-made seed packet: breathable paper that keeps seed dry and viable, easy to write on, and just the right size for a pinch of saved seed. A hundred is a season or two of seed-saving and swapping sorted.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Brown kraft paper roll
A roll of plain brown kraft is endlessly useful in a low-waste home: fold your own seed packets, wrap parcels and gifts, line drawers and seed trays, or hand it to the children to draw on. It is unbleached, recyclable, and fully compostable when you have finally used the very last of it.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
5-gallon bucket with lid (food-grade)
A food-grade bucket with a sturdy metal handle is the foundation of the whole build, and the snap-on lid keeps your potting mix dry between seasons. They stack neatly for storage, and once you have made your first planter you will find a dozen other jobs around the garden for any spare buckets.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
2-inch bi-metal hole saw
A 2-inch bi-metal hole saw cuts a clean, round opening in the base of the bucket in seconds, far tidier, safer, and more accurate than sawing at thick plastic with a knife. It chews happily through wood and plastic alike, so it stays genuinely useful long after this one weekend project is finished.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Heavy-duty plant hanger bracket (22 inch)
This is the part people skimp on and later regret. A watered bucket with a mature plant can top forty to sixty pounds, and this heavy-duty 22-inch bracket holds all of it without sagging or working loose, so your tomatoes never come crashing down in a summer storm. Fix it into something solid.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
FoxFarm Ocean Forest potting soil (12 qt)
A light, aerated ocean-forest mix is exactly what a hanging bucket needs: it drains freely so roots never sit soggy, yet holds enough moisture between the frequent waterings these planters demand. The fish meal, crab meal, and earthworm castings give your seedlings a rich, well-fed start with no extra feeding needed early on.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Terracotta watering spikes (12-pack)
The fix for the upside-down planter's single biggest weakness, which is drying out. These terracotta spikes wick water slowly into the soil from an ordinary bottle, so your bucket will not bake dry by mid-afternoon on a hot day and you can safely skip a watering. Twelve keep several planters happily going.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Organic tomato & vegetable liquid feed
Because the constant watering a hanging bucket needs also flushes nutrients straight out of the soil, regular feeding is what actually gets you a crop. This organic liquid feed of fish, seaweed, and molasses replaces what has washed away and keeps plants productive right through the season, on peppers and the wider veg patch too.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Ready-made upside-down tomato planter (2-pack)
Rather not drill a bucket at all? This ready-made pair does exactly the same job straight out of the box; you just add your plants, soil, and feed. It is a tidy, no-tools shortcut to the upside-down method, and having two lets you grow a couple of different varieties side by side.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →
Topsy Turvy upside-down tomato planter
The original hang-and-grow planter, lightweight and ready to use the moment it arrives. It is the simplest possible way to try growing tomatoes upside down if you only want the one and do not fancy cutting into a bucket yourself, and it folds away flat for tidy storage over the winter months.
Check Price on AmazonUsed in this project →Home & Kitchen
Plastic-free swaps and reusables that cut waste in the kitchen and around the home.
Epica Countertop Compost Bin (1.3 Gallon)
A durable stainless-steel countertop caddy with an airtight lid and activated-charcoal filter that genuinely keeps food-scrap odors down, so collecting compost on the counter stops being gross. Stainless means it lasts for years and recycles at the end of life, unlike a plastic bin. The honest catch is not the bin but you: it only cuts waste if you actually have somewhere to compost the scraps, a home pile, worm bin, municipal food-scrap collection or a service. Sort that, and this makes the daily habit easy and tidy.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →
BreodyEco Reusable Paper Towels (30-Pack)
Soft, 2-sided cotton-flannel unpaper towels that snap into a roll on your existing paper-towel holder, so you get the paper-towel experience without the waste. At 30 pieces there are enough to actually break the habit: use one for spills, hands, counters or as a napkin, drop it in a basket, and wash it with your regular laundry. Because it is cotton it biodegrades at the end of its long life and sheds no microplastics, unlike synthetic microfiber reusable towels. The eco win depends on washing them efficiently, but do that and one set displaces many rolls over years.
Check Price on AmazonRead full review →