Sustainable Living
10 Years of Thriving: Thrive Market’s 2024 Impact Report
We started Thrive Market in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. 10 years later, it still drives us — from our industry-leading quality standards to our company-wide sustainability practices. In 2024, we reached a longtime goal to welcome SNAP EBT to Thrive Market, passed more than ...
FREE DOWNLOAD: Down to Earth, A Zine by Thrive Market
To celebrate Earth Month, we’re proud to announce Down To Earth, a Thrive Market exclusive zine filled with recipes, tips, and ways to share our planet (as well as fun activities for the little ones!) Browse the zine and download your free copy below. To shop the recipes inside, click here. Happy Earth Month!
What Are the Main Pillars of Sustainability?
At Thrive Market, sustainability isn’t just a buzzword—it’s one of the core values that shapes everything we do, from the products we carry to how they’re packaged and shipped. But sustainability is more than just eco-friendly practices; it’s a broader commitment to supporting the health of people, communities, and the planet. This is often framed ...
In India, We Saw the Plastic Problem Firsthand — And an Inspiring Path Forward
How do you even begin to comprehend a global issue as large as plastic pollution? Caleb Hulsey, Thrive Market’s Senior Category Manager, has always had an interest in helping to solve the plastic problem. He cut down on his own day-to-day plastic use, instituted a 52-week challenge for co-workers to address their footprint, and he ...
Best Sustainable Kids & Baby Brands at Thrive Market
As parents, we want the best for our little ones—safe, nourishing, and eco-conscious products that support a healthy future for both our children and the planet. Fortunately, many brands are dedicated to sustainable sourcing, responsible packaging, and clean ingredients. At Thrive Market, we carefully curate products that align with these values, offering families sustainable choices ...
10 Examples of Sustainable Agriculture & Farming Techniques
This article was written with help from AI and edited by Thrive Market’s talented team of human writers. Sustainable agriculture focuses on producing food while preserving the environment, ensuring economic profitability, and promoting social well-being. To accomplish this, farmers rely on eco-friendly farming practices like crop rotation, no-till farming, and agroforestry to help maintain soil ...
Here’s How Our Community Helped Those Affected By the Los Angeles Wildfires
Thrive Market is proud to call Los Angeles our home, and we were devastated for our colleagues, friends, and neighbors impacted by the unimaginable fires that overtook the city last month. Thanks to the generosity of our members and partners, we’ve been able to provide meaningful relief to those affected. Together, here’s how we helped: ...
Helping the Williams Family of Altadena Rebuild After the L.A. Wildfires
In the wake of the devastating wildfires that overtook our hometown of Los Angeles last week, we mobilized more quickly than we ever have before to provide some relief to our neighbors in need. Thanks to our members’ generous donations at checkout, we were able to disperse funds across disaster relief organizations and directly to ...
How to Dispose of Household Cleaners
If you’ve ever looked at a nearly empty bottle of bleach and wondered what to do with it, you’re not alone. While keeping your home clean is important, it’s equally essential to ensure that the leftover products used to scrub, spray, and sanitize don’t harm the environment. In this guide, we’ll break down how to safely dispose of household cleaners—whether it’s an empty container, a half-used bottle, or a cleaner you no longer need. Along the way, we’ll also explore conscious alternatives and simple steps to reduce waste altogether.
How Thrive Market and rePurpose Global Are Encouraging Brands to Reduce Their Plastic Use
Even the most well-intentioned brands have issues addressing their plastic use. The reality is that plastic is an incredibly common, affordable, and practical material for things like packaging and shipping; unfortunately, it’s also polluting our planet at a rate that recycling alone cannot begin to address. Thanks to our partnership with rePurpose Global, the world’s ...
The Best Sustainable Hacks & Habits from Thrive Market Employees
When we set out to share some tips for how to develop more sustainable habits this Earth Month, we turned to some of our favorite sustainability pros: our very own employees. Aside from working to provide healthy, organic groceries to our members, many Thrive Market employees also make it a point to live low-waste or ...
25+ Ideas for a More Sustainable Halloween
Halloween comes only once a year, but it carries with it a hefty carbon footprint and a whole lot of waste. From the wear-it-once costume to the plastic decorations and the individually wrapped candy, Halloween isn’t traditionally the most environmentally friendly holiday — but with a bit of creativity, you can have a far more ...
What is Sustainable Packaging? Here’s What It Means at Thrive Market
These days, you can get pretty much anything shipped directly to your door. And while that convenience is tough to beat, it often comes with a steep cost to the planet: no sustainable packaging.
Challenge Yourself to a Plastic-Free July
This month isn’t just July — it’s Plastic-Free July, a time to challenge yourself to cut back on (or eliminate!) your plastic use. The Plastic Free Foundation started this global initiative to invite people to “be part of the solution to plastic pollution” by giving up single-use plastics for the month. Want to challenge yourself ...
Meet a FoodCorps Service Member Empowering a New Generation of Environmental Stewards
Bridgette Byrd grew up in the kitchen. Her father, a self-taught professional chef, did the cooking at home, and most nights Byrd was right there beside him, observing his skilled use of tools and expert food preparation techniques. But more than anything, “I loved being able to look at his passion for the work that ...
Thrive Market is Now Climate Neutral Certified!
We’ve got some *big* news to share! Thrive Market is now Climate Neutral Certified, a major sustainability milestone that we’ve been working toward for the past few years. Read on to learn more about what this prestigious certification means for our business (and for you, our members). What is Climate Neutral Certified? The Climate Neutral ...
Here’s How to Reduce Waste in Every Room in Your Home
As you make your way through your home throughout the day, those little wasteful moments start to add up. You toss out a takeout container here, a pile of junk mail there; you use single-use plastic for your load of laundry and your shower routine; you may even leave the water running while you do ...
Meet Some of Thrive Market’s Sustainability Superstars
On our journey to becoming the world’s first climate-positive grocery store, there have been many milestones: becoming a B Corp, receiving TRUE Certification for Zero Waste at our fulfillment centers, and being Plastic Neutral Certified. Behind each of those labels is a lot of work—and none of it would happen without people.
Allergy-Friendly Candy, Sustainable Costume Ideas, and More Tips for a Healthy Halloween
Ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and… gluten-free candy? If you’re working with food allergies, it can be tricky to navigate the candy aisle when shopping for sweets to fill your trick-or-treat bag. With that in mind, we’re making it easy to find healthy Halloween treats that suit any dietary restriction, from dairy-free to sugar-free and everything in ...
5 Back-to-School Tips to Make Healthy Habits Fun and Easy
The transition from summer into the back-to-school season means a return to routine, for parents and children alike. This is a great opportunity to introduce new healthy and sustainable habits for kids!
5 Sustainable Brands on How They’re Reducing Plastic Waste
How much single-use plastic do you go through in a day? Every drinking straw, bottle of shampoo, produce bag, or set of takeout cutlery adds up: to 300 million tons of plastic waste per year, the vast majority of which is produced by the United States. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste actually gets recycled, ...
Thriving Outside the Box with Jonathan, Environmentalist, Beekeeper, and LGBTQIA+ Brand Founder
Thrive Market is more than an online grocery store; it’s a community of over 1 million members with their own unique stories. Our members are parents and teachers, first responders and climate activists, artists and athletes—all doing healthy their way. We thought it was time to celebrate them, so welcome to Thriving Outside the Box: ...
Sustainable Living with Actress, Author, and Activist Bonnie Wright
Actress and activist Bonnie Wright may be best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter series, but she’s well aware that there’s no magical cure for climate change. Instead, Wright uses her platform to educate on practical, actionable steps toward living a more sustainable and low-waste lifestyle, including tips for reusing ...
3 Lessons on Dealing with Eco-Anxiety from Isaias Hernandez, aka QueerBrownVegan
No matter where you are on the sustainable-living spectrum, Isaias Hernandez has a message for you: “You are an environmentalist.”