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 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.…
Graduates from Princeton University and Northwestern University in the US have developed a process for converting greenhouse gasses (C02 and methane) from sewage treatment plants, landfills, and power plants into a biodegradable plastic. Get the full story from Clean Technica.
In an ideal world all biodegradable packaging and other materials would be composted, but sadly this is not yet happening, due to lack of knowledge, desire and infrastructure. Worst case scenario for biodegradable packaging (or any biodegradable material for that matter) is to end up in a landfill, and concern has been expressed that green…
The Guinness Book of World Records has called Single Use Plastic Bags (SUPB’s) “The Most ubiquitous consumer item on the planet”, so when the entire US state of Hawaii and a city the size of Los Angeles implement plastic bag bans as has recently occurred, it feels like the tide is slowly beginning to turn…
This amusing short clip, Plastic Seduction from the Plastic Pollution Coalition highlights the ubiquitous nature of plastic pollution, particularly in our oceans. Sadly, we don’t need to eat seafood to be contaminated by plastics and the chemicals used in its manufacture. These pollutants are all around us; in our homes, our cars, our supermarkets, and…
“It took author Susan Freinkel all of ten seconds to realise the absurdity of her decision to go plastic free for one day. When she switched to recording every item of plastic she touched, she filled a 28cm by 19cm page within 45 minutes. By the end of the day Freinkel had filled four pages,…
All Green Home’s wooden utensils are made from birch wood, an FSC certified wood (which means it is sustainably harvested). Unfortunately, due to increased global demand, the supply has not been able to keep up, which has resulted in a worldwide shortage of birch wood, as well as a sudden price increase.What this means is…
Does anyone remember the unbleached toilet paper we launched, called the Brown Roll? This was GreenHome’s first toilet paper product. It was quite distinctive because of its colour and people either loved it or hated it. Those who loved it felt it embodied almost everything that they stood for. And those that hated it… well… just…
