This month, team GREEN HOME took on the Plastic Free July Challenge. We committed to refuse single-use plastic for the month. Most of us aimed to eliminate for the big 4; plastic shopping bags, water bottles, straws and coffee cups. So how did it go? Well – let’s hear it from the team. “On the…
Look how Top Billing does beach picnics. They use GREEN HOME’s biodegradable and compostable disposable plates and cutlery and bleach free, sustainable serviettes and serve up some seriously creative picnic food. This is a serious picnic, and it’s sustainable too!
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…
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…
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 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…
