European sustainable products

European brands built around sustainability, repairability, and ethical supply chains.

These are European brands built around lasting longer and wasting less. Buying well-made things that you keep is better for the planet and your wallet. Fairphone makes a phone you can repair yourself, part by part. Too Good To Go, from Denmark, sells shop food that would otherwise be thrown away. Back Market and Refurbed give used electronics a second life. Sustainable choices and European values fit naturally together here.

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Top Pick

Netherlands EU 100 · Certified European

Dutch social enterprise making modular, repairable smartphones with ethical supply chains. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013. Fairphone 5 supports 8–10 years of software updates. Certified B Corp, carbon neutral, Fairtrade gold. The European answer to planned obsolescence.

Replaces: Apple Iphone , Samsung Galaxy , Google Pixel

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Germany EU 80 · Strongly European

Independent Cologne label founded in 2007, making wardrobe staples from GOTS-certified organic cotton and recycled fibres under Fair Wear standards. A sustainable German answer to disposable fast fashion.

Replaces: Shein

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France EU 80 · Strongly European

Paris footwear brand founded in 2004, making sneakers from organic cotton, Amazonian wild rubber and recycled materials — and famously spending nothing on advertising. Founder-owned and independent, a European alternative to fast-fashion trainers.

Replaces: Shein , Amazon Fashion

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Spain EU 80 · Strongly European

Madrid fashion label founded in 2009, making clothing and accessories from recycled materials, including plastic recovered from the sea. Spain's first B Corp fashion brand — a European alternative to disposable fast fashion.

Replaces: Shein , Amazon Fashion

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Germany EU 80 · Strongly European

Family-run German maker of modular, repairable smartphones built for fairness and longevity, with no outside investors. Users can open and fix the devices themselves — a sustainable European alternative to sealed flagship phones.

Replaces: Apple Iphone , Google Pixel

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Lithuania EU 65 · Mostly European

Lithuanian second-hand fashion marketplace operating in 20+ European markets and the US. Founded in Vilnius in 2008, Lithuania's first unicorn. €1.1B revenue in 2025, €8B valuation. Mission: make second-hand the first choice worldwide.

Replaces: Amazon , Shein , Express , Amazon Fashion

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France EU 65 · Mostly European

Paris-founded resale marketplace for pre-owned fashion, launched in 2009, with authentication on premium items. A certified B Corp making secondhand the sustainable European alternative to buying new.

Replaces: Shein

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Denmark EU 65 · Mostly European

Copenhagen-founded B Corp fighting food waste: its app sells shops' and restaurants' unsold food as discounted 'Surprise Bags'. Used across 20+ countries — a Danish European alternative for cheaper meals with less waste.

Replaces: Uber Eats

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Germany EU 65 · Mostly European

Munich B Corp selling cleaning, laundry and personal-care products as concentrated refills you mix with water at home, cutting single-use plastic. A German European alternative to buying bottled household products online.

Replaces: Amazon

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France EU 63 · Mostly European

Buy verified, professionally refurbished phones, laptops, and gadgets with a warranty. A greener, French-built alternative to buying new on Amazon.

Replaces: Amazon

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Austria EU 63 · Mostly European

Vienna-based recommerce marketplace for refurbished phones, laptops, and household goods, each with a warranty. A sustainable European alternative to buying new on Amazon.

Replaces: Amazon

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Sweden EU 60 · Mostly European

Stockholm resale service founded in 2014 and now majority-owned by H&M. Send in a bag and Sellpy photographs, lists and ships your pre-owned clothing for you — secondhand as a low-effort European alternative to buying new.

Replaces: Shein

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Spain EU 50 · Mixed Origins

Barcelona-founded marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods locally, from clothes to electronics. One of Spain's most-used apps and a European alternative to buying everything new online.

Replaces: Amazon , Shein

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