In 2022, Irish shoppers spent €26 million, and over €18,000 per minute, online on Black Friday – AIB.
In 2021, there was €5,700 a minute spent on clothes alone on Black Friday, a 261% increase in value compared to a normal day.
Last year’s UK Black Friday sales generated 429,000 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from product deliveries alone. (That’s equivalent to 435 return flights from London to New York.)
Meanwhile, 80% of products bought at Black Friday end up in landfill, are incinerated or recycled poorly.
Friday 24th November 2023
Black Friday
Buy Nothing Day
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
Alternative gifts:
Oxfam Unwrapped
Trócaire Gifts of Change
Concern Worldwide gifts
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
Fair Trade gifts
Oh My Good www.ohmygood.ie
Unbound www.unbound.ie
Evergreen Healthfoods www.evergreen.ie
Lúnasa www.lunasa.co
For more ideas, see www.fairtrade.ie/ethical-christmas-gifts-for-2022/
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
https://rethinkireland.ie/support-social-this-christmas/
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
https://rethinkireland.ie/support-social-this-christmas/
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
‘Experience’ gifts
Vouchers
Homemade gifts
Alternative gift giving and ethical consumerism
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