Our Critical Cause
Our critical cause is to make true lasting change that helps save the planet.
Let’s Battle Plastic Together
At its core, you’ll discover that Tru Earth, is actually a movement (#TruEarthMovement). The Tru Earth team joins millions of equally committed people in more than 82 countries to combat the 645 billion plastic household product containers dumped in landfills and oceans globally each year. For every 32 laundry eco-strips purchased from Tru Earth, one plastic container is prevented from entering landfills and oceans. As we often say here at Tru Earth, many small hinges can swing this very very big door. Thanks for joining us in our current battle to eradicate plastic.
Your Purchase Helps People
Our donation program started as an initiative due to COVID-19 when household supplies were hard to find and aid organizations were struggling to ensure everyone had clean clothes. We saw this as a call for help and jumped into action. We have reached more than 800+ organizations including food banks who are stretched to their limits, maternity programs in the global south, local women’s shelters & non-profits across Canada and the United States. We would not be able to have such an enormous impact without the help of our customers, the #TruChangeMakers. For every subscription purchase, 32 loads are donated to an organization in our communities in need across the globe.
DEIB Statement
At Tru Earth, we strive to make the world a better place through our commitment to the planet’s well-being with our environmentally conscious products and our commitment to our employees and community. We are proud to be an organization that promotes equity and respects differences in our social identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, language, nationality, health, abilities/disabilities, religion/spirituality, culture, age, and socioeconomic status. In order to make the lasting change we value at Tru Earth; we believe people are not separate from the environment and we must work to protect both simultaneously. We value creating a space to celebrate our differences, learn from one another, and honour our varying experiences. We consistently strive to learn with open minds, to reflect on our own positions within the current systems, and to create intentional change to build a more equitable world. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are foundational elements for creating true, lasting change to help save the planet.
Land Acknowledgement
Tru Earth gratefully and respectfully operates on the stolen and ancestral lands of the S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, Kwikwetlem, and the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples commonly called Port Moody & Burnaby, BC, and on the lands of the Mississauga’s of the Credit First Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Wyandot peoples that is now commonly called Mississauga, Ontario. As well as on the traditional and treatied lands of the Sh-Shon-ee and Yewt Mountain Yewt Tribe nations now commonly called Ogden, Utah and the lands of the Ah-nishi-nAw-bek people and the Hoo-ron-wen-dat Nation that is now commonly called Midland, Michigan.
As a far-reaching organization, our employees and customers come from many corners of the globe. With this in mind, we recognize all peoples worldwide whose ancestral and traditional lands have been stolen and occupied. We must all work together for the self-determination of Indigenous peoples at home and around the world. This is our belief, our hope and our plan.
Our Community
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#ChangeMaker Stories
"It is through contributions like yours that we are able to provide clean clothes for our students here at The Other Side Academy. With this donation from Tru Earth, we will be able to do 3,300 loads of laundry for our students. The Other Side Academy's mission is to save lives by changing behavior. We are a 2 1/2 year self-sustaining, residential vocational and life skills training program for men and women determined to break their cycle of long-term criminality, substance abuse, homelessness, and dysfunction. We accept students regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity."
-The Other Side Academy
#ChangeMaker Stories
Tru Earth has donated an incredible 3 million laundry strips to Daily Bread Food Bank since November 2020. We are so thankful that we can distribute this necessity to our 128 member agencies across Toronto.
Hunger is not a food issue, it's a poverty issue. After paying for housing, Toronto food bank clients have a median of $8.01 left per person per day to spend on all other needed items, including food and transportation. That is why we are so grateful to Tru Earth. By providing millions of strips to food bank clients, they are lightening the financial load for tens of thousands of individuals and families across the city. Thank you so much for your help in not only fighting landfill waste, but also fighting poverty!"