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We were recently asked this question. While it is excellent to see more and more types of plastic being recycled, there are two important reasons why biodegradable is better. Firstly, compostable packaging is made from renewable plant material and secondly it returns to its natural elements in composting environments. Most food packaging is plastic or…
The Food & Beverage Reporter recently featured GREEN HOME products in their article about making packaging more environmentally friendly. The article talks about innovations in packaging that minimise the impact of the waste generated by fast food. Packaging product suppliers are assessing their products in terms of how eco friendly they are. Most of the products…
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…
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…
