It’s Rocking the Daisies 2015 coming up. This year – they are celebrating their 10th anniversary with an extra exciting lineup. Rocking the Daisies have won awards for their eco focus over the years and run what we call a “Green Festival”. Their moto “play hard, tread lightly” filters into many different aspects of the…
We recently read somewhere Zero is the new green. What does that mean? The trendy talk is confusing but there is a buzz and you could be taking advantage of it. We’ve looked into what having a zero waste restaurant involves. Could you? Would you? A zero waste restaurant runs a closed loop operation. It…
We attended a workshop with Premier Helen Zille and the 110% Green Western Cape Government Initiative. The focus of the workshop was industry symbiosis. The Synergy Day was held as part of the WISP initiative which aims to link companies so that one person’s waste is another’s resource. Industrial symbiosis has the potential to significantly…
GREEN HOME sponsored the 213th Street Store with our Newspaper gift bags. These bags are the last of a range we made as a part of an upcycling job creation project. Street Store is a street based, pop up “shop” for the poor stocked by public donations and organised by anyone who wants…
We sponsored the World Refugee Week celebrations held at The Scalabrini Centre in Cape Town with our compostable Sugarcane plates (made from recycled sugarcane fibre called bagasse – not virgin wood pulp or petroleum oil) The Scalabrini Centre is an NGO offering development and welfare programmes to the migrant and local communities of…
Its Winter. Time to prepare and eat lots of yummy stews, soups and lovely filling, warming dishes. How do you present this kind of food and how do you package it? Here are some of our favourite winter food packaging ideas for inspiration on how best to use GREEN HOME packaging to present your…
We visited a client’s premises the other day and they showed us around their onsite composting setup. This client operates a canteen for a large institution so deals with a significant amount of food waste. They have chosen to manage their composting onsite in these tunnels. All food waste and compostables are composted and then…
