Have you ever wondered about Tetra Pak cartons? They are becoming more and more common on our shop shelves - just how green a solution are they?

The environmental downsides to plastic bottles are mostly well known: they are expensive to recycle, recycling rates are low, there are limited options for the use of recycled plastic material, and plastic litter can wreak havoc with the environment. So, any person or business who are environmentally conscious, of course, would try to reduce and eliminate their plastic use.

Because of these considerations there has been an increase in metal and cardboard being used for drinks and liquid containers.

The rise in popularity of cardboard cartons, however, which are really complex composites of plastic-lined cardboard and aluminium, is a deeply imperfect solution.

Reducing plastic waste is only part of the problem: if plastic is replaced by containers that are not easy to recycle either then the replacements may not lead to an environmentally s...

Today, 16th of October, is “World Food Day”. Food is rising in price, but in 2019, Ireland wasted 1.1 million tonnes of food waste, or 55 kg per head.  We are dedicating this post to showing you how to reduce your food waste, save money and buy more sustainable. 

Food waste 

Retain this sentence: 1/3 of the global food produced is lost or wasted 

Consumers, supermarkets, and retailers play an important role in this percentage. When we waste food, we are wasting other resources, such as the energy and the water that were required to be produced. If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third-biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fruits and vegetables, plus roots and tubers have the highest wastage rates of any food (40-50%) compared to cereals (30%), fish (35%), oil seeds, meat, and dairy (20%) 

Some tips to reduce your food waste (and, at the same time, save money): 

🍊 Buy only what you are going to eat. It is not necessary to be prepared for the next apo...

Last week I had a radio interview with NearFM about the #SaucyChallenge, and one of the questions Sabrina asked me was "When did all these single packaging starter?" and that got me thinking...

Shopping Frustrations

I don’t know about you but I am quite often absolutely shocked about the way shops, supermarkets, etc package the stuff I buy. Here is what happens, I bring my own reusable bag to put my shopping into, when I buy some fresh fish, they place it in a plastic bag and give it to me, I go to the check out till and the attendant puts the fish (already inside a bag), into a brown paper bag, for me to place the fish that is inside a bag, now wrapped in a second bag into my shopping bag. What the hell? When did I start accepting plastic as the new normal?

And it is not only fish, the same happens when I buy firelighters, which come in a box, which also has a second plastic bag inside the box already. The level of separation from my firelighters to my skin is plastic wrapping arou...