Make Your Own Easter Eggs: More Yummy, Less Packaging

It’s Easter time, a much anticipated time for many young children and adults alike. As with any celebration, it can become over commercialised. One can feel the reluctance to purchase over packaged  and over priced Easter eggs made from inferior chocolate. Seeing as we’re all about reducing packaging, we’d like to ask you to give…

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Man

This brilliant illustrated animation by Steve Cutts looks at man and his relationship with the planet and other species.  Described as “wicked, elegant, depressing” – you decide…

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Boyan Slat: The Ocean Cleanup Project

It is estimated that 6.4 tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year.  The 5 Gyres (garbage patches floating in the Oceans) contain 6 times more plastic than plankton. The Great Pacific Gyre is the size of Texas. All this plastic waste has a huge impact on wildlife.  It looks like food and birds starve…

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Building homes from plastic bottles

We think it’s best to avoid using plastic as much as possible. We can rather choose reusable items and compostable packaging. That said, it is a good idea to use some the waste that has been, and is unfortunately still being produced. Building homes from plastic bottles is an idea that has been used in…

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