I am a professional footballer and former U21 England captain, and this is how most people will know me. Off the field, I am putting my time, energy and passion behind my company, ChopValue UK, which is born from my love of nature. I truly believe we can all make a difference to the environment and leave it in a better place for future generations by doing the smallest of climate positive actions consistently. This is why I invested in ChopValue, the world’s first circular economy franchise. Our company has a compelling vision to turn ‘waste’ to ‘resource’, with our products being manufactured using a sustainable, high-performance material engineered entirely from recycled bamboo chopsticks. Since its founding in 2016, ChopValue’s “urban harvesting” approach has saved over 158 million chopsticks from landfill globally, with over 7.7 million kg of carbon stored (as of Q2 2024), turning them into beautiful and sustainable products for any industry. We source, manufacture, distribute and employ within local communities and we are expanding with like-minded and purpose-driven clients and partners to make the circular economy the new norm, one chopstick at a time! Please keep an eye out for future locations across the major cities around the UK and Ireland. Want to see what we can do with a recycled chopstick? To learn more about our resource-efficient impact for a carbon neutral future, please visit www.chopvalue.co.uk