Christmas this year falls right in the middle of major times. #wearewatching our leaders and insisting on changes to save the future of our environment and planet. What can you do at home to help? Here are our tips on making this an environmentally friendly Christmas Food The food we consume has a major impact…
This article discussing why biodegradable plastics are not the answer to reducing marine litter was recently published on the United Nations News Center. We absolutely agree with this. Using biodegradable plastic in the place of conventional plastic will not reduce the amount of marine liter that we are experiencing in the world today. Biodegradable plastics…
Green Home was featured on Padkos by ViaTV. The program features Leroux Botha (LB) finding a menu for his food truck. He brings his friend, Arnold Tanzer, in to help his setup and Arnold introduces LB to Green Home. They came to learn all about environmentally friendly food packaging made from plants “it’s about being…
GREEN HOME’s founder and MD, Catherine Morris, spoke at the 2015 Trash Trek Challenge held in Cape Town. This is a international challenge for children from the ages of 9 – 16 to look at all the issues around waste and come up with solutions in various different ways. There were a wide range of…
GREEN HOME helped Reliance Compost welcome the Walking the Daisies walkers and riders with beers and hotdogs served in our wooden boats – a perfect environmentally-friendly, disposable and compostable way to serve a hotdog. Walking the Daisies is an initiative that has been running for a number of years; a group of people can apply…
It’s all happening! We are busy building with Hemp on the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen site. It seems like so long ago that we were discussing potentially using natural raw materials to rebuild Mickey’s structure; debating the pros and cons and finally deciding to go for it. And boy are we glad we did! Right…
We were invited to speak about sustainable packaging design at Stellenbosch Academy. Our discussion was around considering the environmental footprint of your design. Cost has always been such an important factor of design. Keeping costs down to remain competitive is very important. The problem is that this often results in the cost of the product…
At GREEN HOME, we get out our best compostables when we have tea and cake in the office. The side plates are made from bagasse, a byproduct from sugar cane production. The best feature of our bagasse products is that they are home compostable. Tear them up or soak them in some water to speed…
