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Boyan Slat: The Ocean Cleanup Project
It is estimated that 6.4 tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year. The 5 Gyres (garbage patches floating in the Oceans) contain 6 times more plastic than plankton. The Great Pacific Gyre is the size of Texas. All this plastic waste has a huge impact on wildlife. It looks like food and birds starve…
Building homes from plastic bottles
We think it’s best to avoid using plastic as much as possible. We can rather choose reusable items and compostable packaging. That said, it is a good idea to use some the waste that has been, and is unfortunately still being produced. Building homes from plastic bottles is an idea that has been used in…
Great eco friendly packaging designs
We love eco friendly packaging and get really excited when we see packaging made from sustainable and non-toxic resources, packaging that does not require energy intensive processes to recycle and packaging that will not remain forever once it has been discarded. According to an article published by DC Velocity, more and more consumers are demanding…
O’Prego Cosinha serving up biodegradable take away packaging!
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…
Environmentally Friendly Packaging for Burgers
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…
Get your lunch in compostable packaging at Food Lovers
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…
Growing Future Packaging
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 Levy: What’s Inhibiting its Success in South Africa?
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.…