Our Story

We do not Greenwash. We only sell essential products that can do the job and are better for the environment than the standard or typical options in some way – if a product doesn’t match that description, we don’t sell it, and we try to be honest about how good or green a product is through our innovative rating system.

We scrutinise credentials and claims from suppliers and have learnt that no product is perfect, especially when you really dig into the detail. We are definitely not experts on environmental matters, it is an incredibly complex area, but we do know products very well and can hopefully help our customers make informed purchasing decisions by being transparent.

For example, a biodegradable product sounds great until you realise it won’t biodegrade as well once you’ve used it, or it needs to go in clinical waste after use. Compostable products also sound wonderful until you realise you don’t have an industrial composter to hand…

We ourselves are a business with premises to maintain. We know that for many products used on a daily basis, there simply aren’t that many genuinely eco-friendly products that perform well enough, and cost the right amount of money - yet.

Just like our customers, we’re also doing our best to learn about simple and affordable changes to daily processes that can be made to help reduce environmental impact.

EcoCentric is part of the Value Products group – an established seller of b2b products since 2007, supplying over 250,000 satisfied customers with high quality products at competitive prices.

In light of recent climate reports, we realised that in many of the product areas that we deal in, there simply weren’t many (or any) genuinely eco-friendly alternatives. In fact, the majority of best-selling product areas were imported from the Far East, with very few other options.

With EcoCentric, we wanted to launch a website devoted exclusively to alternative products which do the job and are better for the planet, not simply offer them alongside regular products which sell in significantly greater numbers and claim to be environmentally friendly.

We know some areas are light on choice but one day we hope all product areas will have deep and comprehensive ranges of genuinely eco-friendly product alternatives. We will constantly be adding new products that fit the bill as soon as they are available to help achieve this.

Our aim is to be part of the drive for change so that ‘eco-friendly’ no longer becomes a novelty or something which manufacturers try to justify listing as a product benefit, but a given for all essential b2b products used for typical day to day operations.