A Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Compost Heap
Composting is a great waste reduction plan for any household. There are so many benefits to it. You will be amazed by how much you can reduce the amount of waste you produce.
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Constantia Waldorf goes green
Earlier this year, Constantia Waldorf School launched its ‘Go Green’ initiative with the Acoustic Earth concert. Since then, parents, teachers and learners have been hard at work and getting their hands dirty….literally! Their aim is to register Constantia Waldorf as an eco-school and to create a school which is environmentally-sustainable and actively involved in the…
A beginners guide to composting
How do I make compost? The most common and easiest way of making compost is using a compost bin. First things first, you will need a bin or a container to collect all your organic waste. Remember to take into consideration how much space you have before opting for a really big compost bin. You…
Compost, composting, compostable!
Green Home products are 100% biodegradable and compostable which means you can throw one of our containers into your compost bin and it will break down into healthy food for your soil. So what exactly is compost? Compost is organic material that can biologically decompose under aerobic conditions. All organic matter like garden waste and…
Rocking the Daisies goes biodegradable! – Press Release
As the leading supplier of biodegradable, disposable packaging in the country, Green Home is proud to be associated with Rocking the Daisies, SA’s first carbon-neutral music festival. This year, Rocking the Daisies will be using our 100% biodegradable containers made from 100% natural and renewable resources. Unlike plastic and polystyrene containers which takes hundreds of years to degrade and is highly toxic, our…
The future looks bright for biodegradable packaging
The director of Sirane, one of the U.K.’s leading packaging producers, attended the bipolastics conference held in Prague and delivered a paper predicting a bright future for biodegradable packaging. Simon Balderson told delegates at the Prague conference, held in June, that ‘lighter biodegradable packaging is our most popular request from customers – and the drivers…
The biodegradable secret garden
Last weekend, I was at The Secret Garden party in the U.K. and it was so inspiring to see the emphasis on making it a green event. There were compost toilets, solar-powered stages, vegetarian and organic stalls and, best of all, ALL the food stalls at the festival were using biodegradable take-away containers. The move…
African Palm enters the industry
A packaging company in Malaysia has begun producing biodegradable packaging made from the fiber of the African Palm. Apparently, packaging made out of palm fibre takes about 90 days to biodegrade. Read more here…
Consumer trends favour biodegradable packaging
According to Bizcommunity, Africa’s leading marketing and advertising news website, packaging has become an essential aspect of branding and consumer trends have shown that biodegradable packaging, in particular, has become one of the most effective marketing strategies. In this article, Desiree Gullan, creative director of Guerrilla Marketing says: “Without sounding like too much of a…