The Ecocheque Hack

11.11.11, a Belgian NGO fighting against climate injustice, refused to accept this. But changing the official ecocheque list means chaning the law. And changing the law, especially in Belgium, is notoriously complex. So they did a very Belgian thing: find a loophole. Supported by Pluxee, a major ecocheque distributor, the outsmarted Belgian law: since second-hand products can legally be paid for with ecocheques, they established a webshop packed with such items.

Enter ‘The Ecocheque Hack’: a webshop offering products from climate change victims rendered useless by extreme drought, water pollution, floods and more. So basically second-hand products. And those can symbolically be bought with ecocheques.