Ellie Degraeve is the founder of Go For Zero, an online retailer specialising in toxin-free and sustainable products, and was recently ranked #1 in Inside Retail's Top 50 People in E-Commerce. Here's her story.
Making beer, shipping beer, and refrigerating beer might all be essential steps when it comes to getting the drinks you love from those who produce it into your hands, but they come with a cost to the environment. The creation of greenhouse gas emissions starts well before a beer makes it into a bottleshop – before it even becomes a finished product, with everything from the aluminium needed for cans and the growing and malting of grains, to the growing, processing and distri