Sustainable
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 ...
Why Thrive Market Invests in Carbon Offsets
As we work to ship healthy groceries across the country, Thrive Market inevitably creates emissions. Despite our best efforts toward sustainability, packing and shipping have an impact on the environment — and that’s something we need to hold ourselves accountable for. At Thrive Market, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact. While we’ve made ...
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 ...
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.
Empowering Uganda’s Small Farmers, One Regeneratively Grown Pineapple at a Time
The sweet, golden pineapple is beloved worldwide, but in Uganda, farmers grow the fruit in ways that protect the environment while also supporting the future of their communities. According to the International Trade Administration, 68% of Uganda’s working population is employed in agriculture, producing staple crops like coffee, sugar, corn, beans, and fruit. However, much ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Thrive Market is Now Plastic Neutral Certified! Here’s What That Means
Did you know that more than 9 million tons of plastic waste ends up in the ocean every year? And on top of that, approximately 3 billion people don’t have access to proper waste collection that would allow them to effectively recycle plastics? Plastic is one of the biggest pollutants on the planet, and it’s ...
Introducing “But Are You Thriving?”, the New Podcast from Thrive Market
What’s the difference between living a generally healthy lifestyle, and truly thriving? The first podcast from Thrive Market aims to explore that question, bringing listeners along for the journey.
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, ...
Thrive Market 2021 Impact Report at a Glance: Our Biggest Wins for People & Planet
Every year, we’re dedicated to furthering our mission of providing healthy and affordable groceries to all — and we’re aware of the ways our environmental and social impact is inextricably linked to that cause. It’s all connected, and we’re firmly committed to making healthy food accessible to all in a way that’s better for everyone, from ...
Low-Waste Pulled Chicken Tacos Recipe
It’s better to toss your food scraps in the compost bin than the trash, but what’s even better than that? Repurposing them into dinner.
Simple, Impactful Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
With more time at home than ever before over the past year, maybe you planted a garden for the very first time. Maybe you made your groceries last a bit longer than you’re used to, experimenting with ingredients and stretching your grocery budget in fun, new ways. Maybe you took the time to look inward ...
How Alaffia’s Fair Trade Commitment Helps Locals in West Africa
We recently shared how skin care brand Alaffia uses shea—one of West Africa’s most sustainable resources—as its star ingredient, and today we’re going deeper into the company’s commitment to fair trade. “We ensure everyone who participates in making the product along the way is being treated fairly, and that the raw ingredients are chemical-free,” shares ...
What It Means to Be Carbon Neutral
There’s no shortage of apocalyptic books, movies, and video games that imagine the end of humanity, involving everything from flesh-eating microbes to militant alien invasions. And yet, the biggest threat to life on earth is anything but fantastical. According to a recent Science Magazine article written by a group of top climate scientists from around ...
Sir Kensington’s Co-founder Scott Norton Shares the Story Behind the Brand’s New Vegan Mayos
Sir Kensington’s is excited to bring a new line of vegan mayos to Thrive Market members this month. We recently caught up with Scott Norton, the brand’s co-founder, who said the new products epitomize how the brand prioritizes sustainability in every business decision it makes.