Advice and recommendations on ethical and eco-friendly foods, drinks and other products for living a planet-friendly lifestyle.
Most of us are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact of waste on our environment. Local councils provide us with different bins for our recycling, usually divided into garden waste, paper and cardboard, and plastics. There are also options for recycling other household items (white goods, electronic items etc.) at our local recycling centres. …
Tea bags appear to be made out of paper, but most of them actually contain small amounts of polypropylene, a plastic used to seal the tea bag together. Polypropylene isn’t biodegradable, so putting tea bags in your compost bin can lead to plastic pollution. There are also concerns about plastic from tea bags leaching into …
