Archive for the ‘Packaging’ Category

I’m four days into my plastic diet challenge, and already two unexpected bonuses of this challenge have started to manifest. By reducing my waste, I’m also saving money and following a more healthy diet…

We’re hearing more and about plastic in the news, how it’s clogging up our oceans, killing off our marine life and ramping up our collective carbon foot print. It’s undoubtedly a huge problem, but one that is largely hidden despite coverage in the media.

So now it’s not just biofuels that are in the news for creating problems; bioplastics are getting it in the neck for not being the quick fix they were touted to be. Well, as our younger readers might say, duh. This weekend’s papers carried stories about how “sustainable” plastics made for packaging out of maize, sugarcane and wheat were nowhere near as

Lots of things to mention. First up, for anyone who lives in my area down in Brighton, there’s a special screening of Rebecca Hosking’s deeply moving film Message in The Waves being screened for free…

I was pleased to see nigelsecostore.com getting a mention for this one in yesterday’s Observer. I started out by stocking the kind of items that appealed to me. As time’s gone on, I’m trying to add more items for the whole family - like the Paperpod Rocket.

I see that readers of Lucy Siegle’s article “Is this the end of the milk bottle” have reacted pretty much the same way as I did. Returnable glass bottles are by far the least wasteful way to go.

Until the 1970s, pretty much all bottles were recyclable…

There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle on the news over the last couple of days about these new organic milk eco paks, which use 75% less plastic than a one litre polybottle, with lots of headlines like “Milk bags could replace bottle…”