Glowpedia
Glowpedia/Fair Zone

Fair Zone

Turn your home into a FAIR ZONE

Fact-checked12 sources

⚑ Thinner sourcing. The article relies largely on the brand's own statements (T2–T3). Glowpedia is seeking independent sources.

Fair Zone
01 /
Summary

Overview

FAIR ZONE is the household/garden/leisure brand of the Cologne fair-trade company FAIR SQUARED (idea born from Oxfam's 2005 'Make Poverty History' campaign; first FAIR SQUARED products were condoms, hand creams and lip balms). Concern over low rubber prices and poor plantation-worker conditions from 2006 led to fair-trade natural rubber becoming FAIR ZONE's core material.

02 /
Timeline

History

2005

Parent company FAIR SQUARED's idea born from the Oxfam 'Make Poverty History' campaign (Cologne).↗

2010

First FAIR SQUARED products (condoms, hand creams, lip balms) sold via Oxfam and Amnesty International.↗

2012

Fair Rubber Association (Fair Rubber e.V.) founded, co-founded by FAIR SQUARED.↗

2013

FAIR SQUARED moved to Cologne, Germany; production relocated to the Eifel nature park; range grew from 12 to 150 items.↗

03 /
Range

Signature products

Natural-rubber household gloves

Household gloves (disposable latex gloves)↗

Natural-rubber gardening gloves

Fair Zone Gardening Gloves Natural Rubber↗

Natural-rubber hot water bottles

Hot water bottles (0.7L and 2L)↗

Natural-rubber bath mats

Bath mats (various colors and sizes)↗

Rubber bands

Rubber bands (various sizes)↗

04 /
Formulation & philosophy

Ingredients & philosophy

FAIR ZONE stands for fair treatment of everyone in the production chain, offering fair-trade, plastic-free household, garden and leisure goods made largely from FSC-certified fair-trade natural rubber. Its stated aim is a 'plastic-free home' with the smallest possible ecological footprint.

Fair-trade natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis)FSC-certified natural rubber
05 /
Group

Ownership & group

Parent company
FAIR SQUARED GmbH
06 /
References

Sources

T1 primary · T2 secondary · T3 note
  1. [1]T1fair.zone/en/homepage
  2. [2]T1fair.zone/en/fair-zone/about-us/about
  3. [3]T2fair.zone/en/fair-zone/principles/philosophy
  4. [4]T2fair.zone/en/fair-zone/for-the-environment/sustainability
  5. [5]T2fair.zone/en/people/news
  6. [6]T2fair.zone/en/products/other
  7. [7]T2fair.zone/en/shop/other
  8. [8]T2fair.zone/en/fair-zone/we-%e2%99%a5-rubber/history
  9. [9]T2fairsquared.com/en/fair-squared/history/external_other
  10. [10]T2fair2.me/en/brands/fair-zone/external_other
  11. [11]T3natrue.org/true-story-oliver-gothe-fair-squared/external_other
  12. [12]T3sdgs.un.org/partnerships/fair-squaredexternal_other