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 Merry Green Christmas from us

In this festive season of giving and sharing, let’s spare a thought for our long-suffering planet. Let’s reduce the environmental impact of a season that can easily descend into waste, debt and stress with a few quick and easy changes to the celebrations.

Element Paper Straws Why fight the straw? Traditional Straws are made of polypropylene, a petroleum based plastic known for its cheap and easy to produce nature. Polypropylene has a high melting point making it suitable for its use with hot food...

Sustainability in Food Start Ups that will not cost you an arm and a leg! Here are some simple takeaways: Have varying portion sizes on your menu including kid and senior meals and side orders, especially chips – the main...

Crack a handful of HEALTHY nuts everyday with your loved ones this festive season. A bowl of nuts ready with a nutcracker is very much part of Christmas festivity and deco in any home. Aside from promoting family togetherness, the...

Waste disposal - the current most environment-friendly method

Of all the waste disposal methods, recycling is regarded as the most effective current method. Recycling serves to transform waste into products of their own genre through industrial processing. It is environmentally friendly to reuse the wastes instead of adding them to nature.

However, recycling technologies are complex and costly. The recycling operations themselves are not environmentally friendly.

 What about composting and biodegrading?

That’s right, the only current sustainable option if we choose to use plastics is in  shambles,  as pointed out by the Environment Minister Michael Gove. Are you aware that: Of the 1.5m tonnes of recyclable plastic waste used by consumers...

What does freedom mean to you? To us at Element UK, freedom means having the freedom to choose... Try warping your head around these profound freedom ‘sayings’: Freedom to choose but not free from the consequences. I am free to choose...

    What has carbon emissions got to do with a cashew tree growing in Africa? Plenty! That one single cashew tree stores carbon and thus removes megatons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Plants use carbon during photosynthesis and...

What do you get when you order a cold drink? The ordinary single use plastic drinking straw, inevitably.  You put your lips to it without even noticing it, use it for about twenty minutes and discard it - without a...