COVID-19 Supplies In Stock / Face Masks, Gloves and More

News & Blogs

Filter by

Using Mushrooms to Grow Packages
by Gurcharn Sidhu May 11, 2020
Mushroom packaging - it looks like Styrofoam but is made of fungus roots and residues from farming. A 100% biodegradable and renewable material that can be ‘up-cycled’ directly back to nature by providing agricultural waste with home composting. Packaging has been using more plant-based materials and the technology has come a long way in using plant-based materials. One of the latest works is a substance called MycoComposite.

Posted in biodegradable material, biodegradable packaging, carbon emmissions, compostable packaging, home compostable packaging, mycelia, mycocomposite, plant-based materials, plastic food packaging, renewable material, styrofoam packaging, sustainable packaging, up-cycled

Read more
My Freedom Day – the case for positive choices.
by Gurcharn Sidhu March 10, 2020

What does freedom mean to you?

Whilst we cannot understate the importance of human slavery, which is what My Freedom Day 2020 is about, we could also examine our ‘slavery’ to other negative things such as plastics and plastic packaging!

When we choose between the plastic and eco-friendly packaging are we exercising positive or negative freedom in our choices?

Posted in biodegradable foodware, compostable foodware, eco-friendly packaging, plant-based materials, plastic packaging, positive freedom, sustainability

Read more