Advice and recommendations on ethical and eco-friendly foods, drinks and other products for living a planet-friendly lifestyle.
We all know that the world as a whole is producing a huge amount of plastic waste each year. But how much plastic does the average individual use in a day? There are two main ways to look at this question: Plastic packaging waste thrown away directly (what you put in the bin each day) […]
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Would you like to become a tree after you die? Being laid to rest in a lush green forest providing nourishment to a tree seems like the most natural, awe-inspiring and planet-friendly burial option that currently exists. There’ll be no need to face those cold, grey cemeteries, you don’t need to worry about burial plots
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Palm oil is a kind of vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. 66 million tonnes of palm oil is produced each year, making it the most commonly used vegetable oil. Originating from West Africa, it is now grown throughout Africa, Asia and North and South America, with Indonesia and Malaysia exporting
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Far too many of our favourite packets of sweets and bars of chocolate come packaged in huge amounts of plastic. This includes the obvious places like the plastic bag around your Mint Humbugs, to the wrapper around your Yorkie bar and even the plastic wrap, plastic cover sheet and plastic tray inside that box of
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Polystyrene is found everywhere in our homes and work places. Takeaway food containers and coffee cups are often made from polystyrene, and every time we buy electronic goods or fragile items in a shop or online, it’s likely they’ll be protected by polystyrene packaging. It’s cheap to produce and versatile enough to be used in
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Many of us own and use electric toothbrushes and lots of us have old and broken ones we just don’t know what to do with. Since plastic waste is such as huge and growing problem, just binning old brushes doesn’t seem right. But can you recycle electric toothbrushes in the UK? Thankfully, the answer is
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Many of us are looking to reduce the amount of plastic we use around our homes, and so the kitchen is usually one of the first places we tackle. Out goes the plastic wrap and in come beeswax food wraps. We get rid of the plastic storage containers and welcome stainless steel and glass containers
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For years, plastic seemed like the perfect material. Cheap to produce and easy to make into almost anything, humans have produced an estimated 8.3 billion tons of plastic since the 1950s (source). However, we are slowly realising the danger plastic is posing to our planet. Roughly eight million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in
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The production of palm for use in food and personal care items is contributing to the destruction of rainforests around the world, particularly in Indonesia. Around half of all the products in UK supermarkets contain palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients, so it’s difficult to reduce your palm oil consumption. Most peanut butters contain palm
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Picture this. You’re standing at the fridge in your local supermarket, gasping for a drink and weighing up which one you’re going to buy to satisfy your thirst. Row upon row of plastic bottles, and row upon row of aluminium cans greets your eyes. Being an environmentally-aware consumer, you start weighing up your options. Hmm…cans
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