Sustainability Tip 63: Spray it Green We all want to keep our houses clean, tidy, and well-maintained, and cleaning products help with that. They can remove dust, allergens, and germs from our environment. But have you ever considered the environmental cost of our cleaning chemicals? VCOs The biggest impact of cleaning products comes from the ingredients inside. These are called “Volatile […]
Sustainability Tip 62: Don't Buy, Rent All of us are guilty of buying things we don’t really need. Overconsumption is becoming a huge environmental issue, with some reports indicating we consume twice as many material goods today as we did 50 years ago. The ability to buy things online and have them delivered the next day is also making […]
Sustainability Tip 61: Cheers to Sustainable Beer Beer is one of the world’s most beloved drinks, bringing people together for more than 10,000 years. Unfortunately, it’s also reaping havoc on our environment. From start to finish, making beer takes a huge toll on our planet. The most common ingredients – wheat, barley, hops, sugar – are some of the most water […]
Sustainability Tip 60: Reuse Your Bags Everyone knows that plastic bags are bad for the environment, polluting the planet and posing a severe threat to marine life. Yet, most of us are still guilty of using them, at least on occasion. So why, and how, can we stop for good? First, let’s talk a little about their impact. The Impact of Using […]
Sustainability Tip 59: Use Your Dishwasher When people decide to make their kitchens more eco-friendly, they often first think of buying beeswax wrap, silicone sponges, and glass jars. Of course, all of these things will help lower your carbon footprint, but alone they are not enough. You have to change your behaviours too, including how you wash your dishes. […]
Sustainability Tip 58: Don't Let Your Food Go To Waste Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten. Meanwhile, 1 in 9 people around the world go to bed hungry every night. These statistics are as shocking as they are terrible. Clearly, the way we manage our food needs to change, not just for people but for the planet, too. To […]
Sustainability Tip 57: Make Every Day Earth Day Happy Earth Day! Today is all about celebrating the wonderful world that we live in and, with this year’s theme, thinking about how we can invest in the planet for our future. The simplest answer, living more sustainably. As we talked about in our Invest in Nature article, Earth is our only […]
Sustainability Tip 56: Chew Plants, Not Plastic Chewing gum is a regular habit for many. Yet, the fresh breath experience we all enjoy is one of the worst causes of litter in the world today. This is because most chewing gum is actually a single-use plastic. Just one piece contains as much as a straw. You may not even have […]
Sustainability Tip 55: Help The Bees One of the first images that comes to your mind when thinking about climate change is probably a polar bear, floating on a melting iceberg. Yet, it’s important to remember that every species of plant and animal is under threat from climate change, including the ones in your own backyard. Take bees, for […]
Wash Away Your Environmental Impact From the earliest points in human history, we have always found ways to clean and groom ourselves, from Indian ‘soapberries’ used as shampoo to the ancient Egyptians grinding down beetles to make lipstick. However, as society and innovation progressed, people moved away from all-natural ingredients taken from the Earth to processed, packaged products. This, of […]
Sustainability Tip 53: Choose to Refill When you throw a plastic bottle into the recycling, there’s no guarantee that it will actually be recycled. In fact, it probably won’t. According to the World Economic Forum, just 14% of all plastic packaging is collected for recycling around the world. Since the recycling process is so complex, huge amounts of ‘recycling’ that […]