To shoot our brand new Kraft Range, we teamed up with Shawarma Express on the beautiful UCT campus. As well as taking lots of lovely pics of their delicious food in our healthy packaging, we grabbed the opportunity to snap our packaging in action. Have a look at these great shots of SA’s young movers…
Our mission is to create a SA in which zero green, or organic, waste goes to landfill. Happily, we’re in good company. Together with the many amazing people already composting at their homes and businesses, industry players are taking huge steps forward. Building a GREEN Future This year, GREEN HOME became a founder member of ORASA…
Because it’s Women’s Month, we sat down with GREEN HOME’s very own founder and MD Catherine Morris (known to most as Cat) for a chat about SA’s biodegradable revolution, women and what keeps her inspired. It’s been 11 years since you started GREEN HOME. Looking back, do any key inspirations stand out from the journey…
Do you choose to refuse? With an ever-growing number of people saying no to single-use plastic straws, the global movement to ban them is accelerating. At GREEN HOME, we’re in full support – either use a sustainable straw, or nothing! There are many times when straws are simply not necessary and completely wasteful. Most people…
Members of GREEN HOME’s Cape Town team visited Coastal Park Landfill in Muizenberg last Friday and climbed an enormous mountain of trash. These giant trash heaps grow constantly, with 300 to 800 trucks full of waste being added every day! Everything we Throw ‘Away’ is Still Here If you live, work or play in Cape…
Imagine a world with no single-use plastic: Beaches are clean. Rivers run freely. Wildlife is safer. Landfills are shrinking, and composting is growing.. At GREEN HOME, this is what we’re working towards. If you’re looking to reduce your plastic footprint, why not join Plastic Free July this year along with millions of other people all across…
This week, the lovely Phindi Dlamini from GREEN HOME popped in at the Department of Environmental Affairs. She came bearing a gift for South Africa’s Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa. Let’s Make Plant-Based Packaging the Norm Recently, Molewa has been speaking out about our plastic pollution problem. And she is reportedly considering a ban on certain single-use…
Need some good news? Read on. Because last week, Cass (GREEN HOME’s Environmental Research Ambassador) went to check out Reliance Compost. And she came away smiling. Like GREEN HOME, Reliance is dedicated to creating a South Africa in which zero organic waste goes to landfill. And they’re making serious progress to making that happen! Since 2001…
What is World Environment Day? It’s the UN’s big day for encouraging awareness and action to protect the environment. It all started 44 years ago, back in 1974, as a way of encouraging people to take action to care for the Earth. The action itself can be big or small, solo or in a group…
