Top Sustainable Dog Products for an Eco-Friendly Pup

Our own range is the one corner of this list where we can vouch for the whole thing first-hand. For example, our pizzle bully sticks are one ingredient, air-dried beef, with nothing else added and nothing processed out of it beyond the drying itself.

Single-ingredient chews like this skip most of what goes into a processed treat like the grain, the flavourings, the preservatives, and everything that has to be grown, transported and manufactured to get them into the bag. The same goes for the rest of the range including our chicken feet, puffed chicken feet and rabbit ears, with each one air-dried from a single source, not built up from a long ingredients list.

Lily’s Kitchen carries a B Corp certification, and its third one at that, meaning it’s been through the same independent audit of its supply chain, workers and environmental impact three times now and come out meeting the bar each time.

As part of their range, there are plenty of sustainable dog products worth mentioning. The first being the Organic Bedtime Biscuits since they are made with certified organic ingredients, not just labelled natural and left at that. The Chicken Nibbles with Salmon work the same way for puppies starting out on soft treats, baked, not extruded, and without the padding some puppy treats use to bulk a bag out cheaply.

Every Denzel’s snack pouch and treat bag is completely free of single-use plastic, and a lot of the soft-baked bites and training pouches we stock are certified home compostable on top of that, breaking down in around 30 weeks, not the hundreds of years a standard plastic pouch takes.

The soft-baked bars come in flavours like banana bread, blueberry muffin, peanut butter brownie and pistachio cheesecake, all wrapped in that same home compostable packaging. There’s a newer Bites range too, with pairings like chicken and pumpkin, salmon and berries, duck and apple, and peanut butter and banana, so there’s plenty to rotate through.

W’zis treats are made from 100% plant-based ingredients which keeps them off the same meat supply chain that drives up a lot of pet food’s footprint elsewhere in this guide. They also sell most of their treats in a tin you buy once and top up with 100g refill boxes, cutting out the packaging you’d otherwise throw away.

We stock both the tins and refill boxes for anyone settling in for the long run, plus standalone pouches and boxes like the Facelicker dental training treats for anyone trying them out first. The flavours lean a bit silly too which is always fun with flavours called Postman & Roast, Slipper & Biscuit and Lamp Post & Chips.

Adios Plastic is B Corp certified, and started back in 2018 when founders Ben and Sadie Dodd went looking for eco-friendly poo bags for their own dog and couldn’t find any they trusted, so they made their own. Their bags break down in three to six months once they’re composted, and the company puts 1% of its gross sales towards wildlife and ocean protection on top of that.

Their Rainbow bags come in a range of cute colours and are made from the same compostable material. Ben says the company doesn’t try to “greenwash” its claims, which tracks with how specific they are about the three to six month breakdown time.

The same brand behind the natural treats in tins one section back, W’ZIS, also makes a biodegradable and compostable poo bag, so switching over for this too means one less brand to keep track of in the cupboard.

Theirs are made from cornstarch and sugarcane, not oil-based plastic, at 20 microns thick, and they list a specific breakdown time of three to six months in a home or garden composter. That’s a lot more detail than most bags bother giving you so we suggest picking up a few rolls alongside your next treat order so you can easily cover two swaps in one go.

Zee.Dog’s poo bags are made from certified compostable plastic, so you’re not sending another roll of standard plastic to landfill every time you take your dog out. It’s a straightforward swap if you’re already a fan of the brand, since the material itself does the work without you needing to change anything else about your routine.

These bags are sold as refills for Zee.Dog’s own poop bag dispenser which is something always worth having regardless of which bags you load into it. These handy pieces of kit clip easily onto leads or rucksacks and means you’re never caught out without a bag when you leave the house.

Bamboo Switch’s whole idea is right there in the name. They swap the plastic out of everyday grooming tools and replace it with bamboo, a renewable material that breaks down at the end of its life instead of lingering in landfill.

The Double Sided Eco Bamboo Dog Comb pairs that bamboo handle with recyclable metal pegs, and gives you two different sides, one for general detangling and a finer one for working through the trickier bits of a coat. The Bamboo Clothes Lint Remover for Pet Hair does a similar job to the sticky-sheet rollers most of us already own, except the stainless steel and copper blades are built to last decades.

Buddys’ collars and leads are handmade in Spain by artisans working with cotton and leather, not anything synthetic. The cotton’s plaited by hand from Italian yarn, and the leather is naturally tanned in France, which means no harsh chemicals going into the tanning process. Natural materials like these also break down properly at the end of their life rather than lingering for decades or shedding microplastic the way a synthetic lead or collar would.

The range covers plenty of colours and woven patterns and most leads also come in a longer, adjustable version alongside the standard length, so one lead can cover training distance and a normal walk without you needing two separate products.

Project Blu has a range of dog collars made from ELeather, a material built from leather offcuts and hide trimmings that would otherwise go to landfill after a tannery’s finished with the usable part of the hide. The leftover fibres get separated out and rebonded using water-jet technology then textured and coloured so it behaves and looks like ordinary leather.

You wouldn’t know it’s made this way just by looking at it or putting it on your dog, which is sort of the point. It’s got the same weight and finish as a normal leather collar, with a sturdy fabric backing on the inside to help it hold its shape.

SodaPup build their toys to survive dogs that get through an ordinary toy in one sitting. Everything’s made from natural rubber, FDA-compliant and free from BPA and phthalates, so nothing toxic ends up in your dog’s mouth while they’re working away at it.

Their range covers slow feeder bowls, lick mats and treat dispensers shaped like everything from honeycombs to coffee cups, all built to slow a dog down and make a meal last longer. The SodaPup Honey Pot is one of the most popular, a honey pot-shaped dispenser you load with wet food, peanut butter or treats and freeze for an even longer-lasting snack.

West Paw make their own Zogoflex and Seaflex plastics in-house, and both are designed to be reground into new toys through a take-back scheme called Join the Loop, which pulled almost 88,000lbs of old toys back out of landfill last year alone. The toys themselves are built to survive years of chewing and West Paw is B Corp certified, recertified as recently as 2024.

The Toppl is their most popular shape, a stackable treat dispenser and chew in one that comes in a few different sizes. The Qwizl works on the same idea as a tug-and-chew enrichment toy, and the Seaflex Funnl is made from that ocean-bound plastic blend, built to hold a chew stick inside its ribbed centre.

A brand named after their own mission, Project Hive Pet Company are a certified B Corp and a member of 1% for the Planet, putting 1% of every sale towards planting wildflowers and restoring habitat for bees and other pollinators. Their toys are designed to be recycled afterwards and come free from BPA.

The Hive Treat Dispenser & Enrichment Toy comes in two sizes, each one filled with treats or peanut butter to keep a dog working at it for longer while the Hive Disc doubles up as a lick mat, so you get two different styles of enrichment in one shape, and we’ve even put together our own Un-Bee-Lievable bundle pairing Hive toys with a few SodaPup favourites for anyone who wants to try both brands at once.

If you’re looking for a brand that makes dog toys by hand in a small home workshop, Pawsome Pet Toys fits the bill. They work with sheep wool, hemp and leather, all natural fibres that break down at the end of a toy’s life unlike the synthetic stuffing and fabric most toys use, and every batch still comes out of that same small workshop today.

Making toys this way means nothing gets mass produced on a factory line overseas, since each batch is cut, stitched and finished by hand. That smaller scale keeps the whole process closer to a craft business than standard pet toy manufacturing.

Aurora Paws are based in Wakefield, and they build their whole toy range around suede, a by-product of the leather industry that would otherwise go to waste. They then fill it out with jute fibre, coconut husk or compacted cotton depending on the shape so none of it relies on moulded plastic the way a standard squeaky toy would.

The range runs across a whole cast of animal and seasonal shapes, some with a catnip-infused core for dogs who like a bit of extra interest while they chew or carry a toy around. Because the materials stay natural throughout, a well-loved toy breaks down naturally once it’s worn out, so nothing lingers behind as landfill waste.

Teddy London started because its founder got fed up with buying cheap dog beds that fell apart within months and ended up straight in the bin, so the brand built the Boucle range specifically to outlast that cycle. The fabric’s hard-wearing enough to survive years of regular washing, and replacement covers are sold separately, so a worn cover doesn’t mean binning the whole bed and starting again.

It doesn’t suit a determined chewer or a puppy still in a teething phase, since the looped texture can come apart under heavy chewing or scratching, but it survives years of regular use and washing for well-behaved adult pups.

Felt isn’t a material you’ll see certified or audited the way some of the other picks in this guide are, but it earns its place a different way. It’s a dense and tightly packed fabric that doesn’t fray or thin out so a felt dog bed holds its shape for years. The cushion inside comes out for washing on its own too, so keeping the whole bed clean doesn’t mean replacing any part of it.

The Nooee Pet Cave comes in cream and brown, across four sizes, and suits smaller dogs up to around 12lb. It packs flat with its own travel bag when it’s not in use, and the felt exterior just needs a spot clean, so there’s no need to throw the whole bed in the wash.