O’Pregos Cosinha in Brooklyn Pretoria are serving delicious Portugese food in GreenHome’s biodegradable take away packaging. That means that your meal will come wrapped up in packaging made from sustainable, natural resources. The takeaway boxes are made from Bagasse, a by product from the sugar cane industry, and the Bioplastic cutlery is made from corn…
The GBC (Great Burger Company) in Brooklyn, Pretoria are serving burgers, fries and onion rings in environmentally friendly packaging. They are using takeaway burger boxes made from bagasse which is a by-product of sugarcane. Bagasse burger boxes are made from 100% natural resources, are non-toxic as well as heat and oil resistant. This environmentally-friendly packaging…
Food Lovers Market in Newspaper house is serving lunch from their deli in biodegradable and compostable food packaging. The takeaway boxes are made from a sugar cane by product called Bagasse. It is 100% compostable in your home compost heap. So pop in to Food Lovers if you’re near lower Cape Town CBD and in…
Styrofoam is widely used and becoming increasingly unpopular. It’s made using carcinogens and once discarded after a single use, it takes 100’s of years to decompose, filling up landfills and polluting our environment. In fact, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York city has recently proposed a city wide ban on using food packaging made from it. (Lets hope compostable packaging…
The plastic bag creates a huge amount of plastic waste and with some minor changes to our daily routine, we can do without it. South Africa introduced a plastic bag levy in 2004 in an attempt to reduce plastic bag consumption. Other countries have done the same and report much better success than we’ve had.…
We’d like to start this year getting people thinking about how to reduce the amount of plastic packaging they’re using. According to Cape Town Green Map there is very little demand within the recycling industry in South Africa to recover plastics from post-consumer sources, which means they currently end up at a landfill site. At…
