Weekly Tip 32 - Go Paper Free The world is becoming increasingly digitised and, sometimes, it can feel like paper is becoming a thing of the past. However, paper production still causes huge amounts of deforestation even to this day. Not only that, but it also contributes to air pollution and waste problems, and uses vast amounts of water and energy. […]
Weekly Tip 31 - Use Sustainable Makeup Makeup and other cosmetic products are used regularly by billions of people around the world. Sadly, this has a terrible impact on our environment. One major contributor to this is plastic waste. According to Zero Waste, more than 120 billion units of packaging are produced every year by the global cosmetics industry. Most […]
Weekly Tip 30 - Choose Eco-Friendly Baby Products While plastic bags and straws have received a lot of publicity, single-use baby products such as nappies also have a devastating and wide-reaching impact on the environment. The modern plastic diaper wasn’t developed until the 20th Century. Before, people around the world would use a piece of material, usually cloth, held together by […]
Weekly Tip 29 - Make Your Greens Greener We all know that a great way to reduce our carbon footprint is by cutting down on the amount of meat we eat, but what about our fruit and veg? While animal farming is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions globally, where your food comes from and how it gets to you can […]
Weekly Tip 28 – Switch to Dish Soap Did you know that one of the most used products in everyone’s kitchen has a significant environmental impact? The washing-up liquid that sits in its plastic bottle by your sink comes loaded with a whole host of impacts both on the environment and potentially your health. Before the invention of washing liquid, dishes […]
Weekly Tip 27 - Switch Your Deodorant Almost every stick or spray can of deodorant or antiperspirant leaves a mark on the environment, from the materials used to store and ship it to the actual chemical ingredients it is made of. This week’s tip looks at why deodorants are harmful to the environment and what you can do to mitigate their […]
Weekly tip 26 – Get a Sustainable Razor Did you know that disposable razors are one of the most wasteful items in the bathroom and because they are made of a variety of materials, including plastic, steel, and rubber, they cannot be recycled? It wasn’t always this way. Razors can be traced all the way back to the Bronze Age. […]
Weekly Tip 25 - Ditch Your Dish Scrubber Everyone knows that plastic is bad, right? That’s why we are ditching our shampoo bottles for bars, our toothpaste tubes for toothpaste mints and most of us take our reusable bags to the supermarket. On top of that, most of us recycle paper, tin, plastics (those that can be recycled) and food waste. […]
Weekly Tip 24 - Make Your Phone Case Sustainable Did you know that in 2021 over 4.88 billion people have mobile phones? That translates to an incredible 61.85% of the world’s population and is an increase of over 50% in just the five years since 2016. As the population grows and the percentage grows, the problem of waste grows. Phones are built with obsolescence […]
Weekly Tip 23 - Buy A Reusable Coffee Cup Did you know that your latte to go comes with a significant negative environmental impact? Consider this next time you order a vanilla latte to go: “Every day, we use an estimated 1.6 billion disposable coffee cups, globally”. Single-use cups (along with lids, sleeves, and stir sticks) are frequently made of difficult-to-recycle […]
Weekly Tip 22 - Upgrade Your Tech Sustainably Did you know that E-Waste is one of the world’s fastest-growing waste streams? We already produce over 50 million tonnes of it each year and that figure is only going to rise as electronics become more widely available around the world. So what exactly is E-Waste? E-Waste, also known as electronic waste, […]