Weekly Tip #11 - Change Your Cleaning Products Did you know that your cleaning habits can have a negative impact on the environment and contribute to climate change? Every year, home cleaning generates more than 29 billion pieces of plastic each year. We all know that plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and often ends up in the ocean. In fact, […]
Weekly Tip #10 Change Your Jeans We all love our faithful jeans. It’s a staple of nearly everyone’s wardrobe and 2 billion pairs of jeans are manufactured every year. With current fast fashion trends, this is not going to stop any time soon. But did you know by simply changing your denim, you can lower your footprint? […]
Weekly Tip #9 - Change Your Footwear Everyone knows that there is a problem with plastic in our oceans, but a lot of people don’t quite know the scale of the issue. Here are some facts about ocean plastic and a way you can help solve the problem by making a simple change. Fact 1 – Plastic will outweigh fish in the […]
Weekly Tip #8 - Change your specs Did you know that over 3 billion pairs of spectacles are sold globally each year? This number is on the rise as the population grows and the fad for fast fashion and multiple ‘looks’ grows within the industry. Spectacles are often manufactured from plastic which is derived directly from oil and has a […]
Tip #7 - Change your laundry products Everyone knows that washing on 30 degrees and drying your clothing naturally is far better for the environment than hot washes and tumble dryers. But, did you know that even the detergent you use to clean your clothes has a negative impact on our planet and its ecosystem? Laundry products cause a number of issues […]
Tip #6 - Change your clothing habits Did you know that the fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions and is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply? This is mainly because of what we call ‘Fast fashion’. Fast Fashion is the catwalk trend-inspired clothing that is constantly churned out cheaply and quickly to stores. Instead of waiting months […]
Tip #5 – Get rid of toothpaste tubes! We all brush our teeth twice a day (hopefully), but have you ever considered how toothpaste tubes affect the environment? Despite the efforts of some manufacturers to produce entirely recyclable tubes, the majority of toothpaste tubes are made of non-recyclable material and end up in landfills. We’re getting better at eliminating plastic waste, and certain […]
Tip #4 - Use a more sustainable loo roll! Did you know that over 30 million acres of forest are destroyed annually for traditional paper production? This has resulted in huge areas of our planet being subjected to deforestation. Cutting down trees also destroys animal habitat and has endangered many species. The very lifecycle of paper is damaging to the planet from beginning […]
Tip #3 - Switch Your Coffee Capsules Coffee capsules are very handy and fit in well with our fast-paced society. They’re convenient, simple to use, and consistently produce excellent coffee. The environmental effect, on the other hand, is disastrous. In the United Kingdom alone, over 300,000,000 aluminium and plastic coffee capsules are used each year. And despite recycling systems being in place, […]
It’s time to replace Cling Film Did you know that every year, households in the UK use more than 1.2 billion metres of Cling Film? This is equal to 745,000 miles of cling film – enough to travel around the world 30 times! Cling film is terribly hard to recycle, and information about where its various forms can be recycled […]