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Nature's Market - The Coffee, Tea and Spices department

Coffee, tea and spices are dried products of many different plants. As with living plants, it is important that they are grown in a clean and healthy environment in order to safeguard quality. Also important for quality is how the plants are dried, stored and packaged. Organic certification or environmental certification concerns the whole process from production to packaging and ensures that nowhere in the process have harmful chemicals been used while guaranteeing that quality is in accordance with the strictest standards. Sometimes preservatives or even MSG is added to the spices in order to increase flavour and to lengthen shelf life. Therefore it is important for the consumer to carefully read the ingredients. In this section, all information provided on the packaging is listed and certifications are especially mentioned. Coffee is produced by burning the beans of the coffee plant. The growing of the coffee plant can be with or without synthetic chemicals i.e. fertilizer and toxins. By buying organically grown coffee it is possible to ensure that neither the body or the environment is being polluted.

Fair trade emcompasses both tea and coffee production and ensures that the workers are fairly treated and payed. View the Coffee, Tea and Spices department.

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Þannig virkar Endurvinnslukortið

Til þess að einfalda endurvinnsluna og hvetja fólk til að taka þátt í því að minnka magn sorps sem fer óflokkað í heimilistunnuna hefur Náttúran gert Endurvinnslukort en það er kort hér á vefnum sem sýnir þér alltaf hvar næsti grenndargámur eða endurvinnslustöð í þínu næsta nágrenni er að finna og segir þér einnig hverju er tekið á móti þar. Nú þegar er búið að kortleggja allt stór-Reykjavíkursvæðið, Suðurland, Austurland og Norðurland og víðar en unnið er að því að safna upplýsingum um hvern einasta stað á landinu þannig að Endurvinnslukortið nýtist öllum alltaf.

Dæmi um birtingu á móttöku endurvinnanlegs sorps í grenndargáma á Endurvinnslukortinu:

Til að staðsetja grenndargáma og aðra móttökustaði fyrir endurvinnanlegt sorp finnur þú póstfangið og smellir á litla Íslandsmerkið eða götuheitið/staðarheitið sem þú vilt sjá nákvæma staðsetningu á á korti. Til að sjá hvað hver stöð tekur á móti er rennt lauslega yfir Fenúrmerkin eða gámatáknin en þá birtist texti sem lýsir Fenúrflokknum eða hvað má setja í grenndargáminn.

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The Fair Trade Store

Fair trade is a confirmation of the fact that the product is produced in an ethically responsible way without affecting the health of workers and without financially exploiting personel.
Fair Trade is not based on grants or subsidies, but rather on insurance to farmers for fair pay, safe working environment, further development and respect for human rights as well as the environment, which is the basis of a secure economical and social development.

Here in the Fair Trade Shop you'll find a broad variety of Fair trade certified products. By choosing to buy Fair trade products you are joining in the fight for fair pay and safer working conditions, organic agriculture and support democratization and improvement of living conditions in the poorer regions of the world.

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Visit the Fair Trade Shop.
Read all about how to shop at the Nature-market.

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Nature's Market - the shop at Nature.is

One of Nature’s main goals is to provide consumers with an independent marketplace where they can find conformed information on various environment-friendly and health products. There they can make an informed choice based on the comparison of indisputable evidence about certificates, origins, the product origin, purity, composition and the disposal of contents and packaging.

Nature operates an online shopping center and provides sellers with two possibilities to link their products to guidelines and content-information.
One way is to register products and wherever they are sold, and the other way is to register them and sell directly from the “Nature’s market”. In this way the products will link to more detailed information about their contents, environmental guidelines and how to dispose of them to name a few possibilities. Nature’s market provides full service to both small and large scale sellers, to provide a healthy competitive environment just like on a large “natural market.” Consumers are free to surf/stroll around the market and compare the different products without fear of one seller being favored above others in registration.

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See directions on how to shop on Nature’s market.

See conditions and returns policy.

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The Garden - Recycling

Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfill). Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse & Recycle" waste hierarchy.

What used to be defined as waste or garbage is today defined as raw material or a resource for new production. Waste and garbage is nothing but a resource gone awry. Almost everything we use can be reused and recycled. The key is to sort waste in the right way so that reuse and recycling becomes possible. Wrong sorting in the beginning can lead to the impossibility to reuse and recycle waste in its later stages. By recycling and reusing, the need for waste disposal in garbage dumps is greatly reduced which diminishes the risk of soil and water contamination. Waste disposal in waste dumps is also an expensive option not reflected in the price of products as it is part of the municipal taxes we pay to our respective municipalities.

Most important of all is to avoid buying junk in the first place. For instance, how often do you defer from buying packaging which goes directly into the garbage can at home?

The main recycling categories are defined by each municipality independently, and there the most important categories in Iceland are the so-called Fenur categories. It is possible to recycle and reuse much more in the Reykjavik area than out in the rural areas. This can be explained by the fact that waste disposal has to be economical and if recycling and reuse costs more than it saves, it is simply not carried out. However, in many municipalities great advances have been made in reuse and recycling during recent years.

All municipalities in Iceland accept and dispose hazardous chemicals and most of them offer recycling of sorted paper (newspapers, cardboard and corrugated boxes), bottles, soda (PET) bottles and aluminum cans, milk containers, timber, clothing, furniture, garden waste and drugs. You can find where the closest recycling facility near you is, anywhere in Iceland, by looking at our Recycling Map. By looking on our Green pages, under the categorie, Recycling, you can also see which company is responsible for recycling and waste disposal in your area and on the Green Map of Iceland you can see where the respective waste collecting and disposal companies are operating.

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