Single use plastic is harming children, people and planet. We must do better.

You’ve likely heard that researchers estimate there’ll be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050, if we don’t do something drastic. That’s only 25 years away. Scary. Plastic pollution can feel like an insane, impossible problem to solve, given it’s enormous scale and how reliant we’ve become on many plastic products. But, as…

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Single-use plastic bans spread around the world

More and more countries are passing legislation that bans what are often called ‘problematic plastics’. The types of single-use plastic products that play a big role in our global plastic pollution crisis. Eish. Here we take a look at some of the global plastic bans currently in the works…

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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…

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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…

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(Mostly) Plastic Pollution on Beaches

It was World Environment Day on Wednesday 5th June.  GreenHome joined Recycle 1st, Postwink Recycling Products and Earth Child for a beach cleanup along Milnerton Beach in Cape Town. What we found was that most of the rubbish we picked up was plastic pollution that had come from the sea. It had been broken down into small particles…

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