Africa Café, Cape Town

  Africa Café uses 100% biodegradable food packaging and utensils for both  Lunch @ Africa Café and Raw Religion @ Africa Café. Situated on the corner of Shortmarket and Buitengracht Streets in Cape, Lunch @ Africa Café presents a tasty spread of African tapas (from channa fish to Moroccan chickpea’s in phyllo pastry parcels), super…

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Sir Juice

  Here are Sir Juice serving their delicious freshly squeezed juices in biodegradable, compostable cups from GREEN HOME. They are using sugarcane taster cups which are similar to paper cups but are made from a by-product of sugarcane, called bagasse, instead of paper made from virgin wood. Bagasse cups are well-suited to cold drinks and…

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Food Packaging for the Pragmatic Consumer

2016 is set to be an interesting year! The major trend in food (and as a spinoff, food packaging too) is the rise of the Pragmatic Consumer. People want to know what they are consuming. Some examples of how we see the impacts of this are:1. An increased preference towards clean and natural food. We…

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Tilly’s Ice Cream

  Tilly’s Ice Cream serves beautiful, handmade ice creams made from all natural ingredients.  They use our natural bagasse ice cream cups to serve them.  The ice cream cups are made from a sugarcane fibre that’s already been pressed for its juice to make sugar. This means it is a recycled raw material.  No fresh…

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SA’s Beaches Flooded by a Tidal Wave of Plastic Trash

The Sunday Times reported on 13 December 2015. It covers what all of us living along coastal areas have been seeing and feeling disturbed by for a while. It’s great to see the issue of plastic trash on our beaches featured in a major newspaper. This is a worldwide problem and it is hard to…

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