Better coffee cups (and lids) made from plants, not plastic.
Here at GREEN HOME, all our takeaway coffee cups are lined with plant-based PLA bioplastic to make them watertight. Here are some important advantages to lining our coffee cups with PLA…
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We’re on a New-products Roll
Spring is right around the corner and the birds, bees and flowers are getting busy. Whoohooo! And at GREEN HOME, we’re taking our cue from Mama Nature and sending out some new shoots of our own…
A Giant Leap away from Single-use Plastics
A giant leap away from single-use plastics occurred this month. The EU Single-use Plastics Directive came into force, banning many of the most polluting plastic items. Included on the red list are plastic straws, cutlery, stirrers and polystyrene containers.
GREEN Innovations That Help Eliminate Plastic
Take-away food containers that look biodegradable often have a not-so-silver lining. Lots of paper coffee cups, deli boxes, food trays (and much more) have plastic linings to make them water and oil resistant. These plastic linings are non-compostable (so they can stick around for hundreds or thousands of years). Plus, they can potentially contain harsh…
Leading the Change
Because it’s Women’s Month, we sat down with GREEN HOME’s very own founder and MD Catherine Morris (known to most as Cat) for a chat about SA’s biodegradable revolution, women and what keeps her inspired. It’s been 11 years since you started GREEN HOME. Looking back, do any key inspirations stand out from the journey…
Our Top Tips for #PlasticFreeJuly 2018
Imagine a world with no single-use plastic: Beaches are clean. Rivers run freely. Wildlife is safer. Landfills are shrinking, and composting is growing.. At GREEN HOME, this is what we’re working towards. If you’re looking to reduce your plastic footprint, why not join Plastic Free July this year along with millions of other people all across…
DEA Considers a Plastic Ban – so we Visit Them
This week, the lovely Phindi Dlamini from GREEN HOME popped in at the Department of Environmental Affairs. She came bearing a gift for South Africa’s Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa. Let’s Make Plant-Based Packaging the Norm Recently, Molewa has been speaking out about our plastic pollution problem. And she is reportedly considering a ban on certain single-use…
Plastic Free July 2017
July 2017 saw us joining the global Plastic Free July campaign with over a million people from 159 countries. The #PlasticFreeJuly challenge is simple: refuse all single use plastic for the month of July. But actually doing it? Not so simple. When you try to live without single use plastic you quickly realize how deeply…
Plastic Free July at GREEN HOME 2016
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…