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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...

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 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...

Holistic Environmental Footprint Considering the front end and the back end of the production of packaging.   We often focus on waste management and disposal of single-use and disposable of packaging. We are not wrong in doing so as we...

Is your business carbon friendly?   Do you know that 53 cases of 10-inch Cornware 100% biodegradable plates save enough CO2 as electricity to power the average UK home for one whole year? There is substantial evidence that climate change...

Brexit! - Deal or No deal with the Environment?  

The question that begs for an answer is: 
Could Brexit mean an exit of environmental policies or will we now have the autonomy to set our own laws and targets?  

In the curfuffle over deal and no deal, the environment has but, just been forgotten!   An extension to Brexit has been granted in principle by the EU negotiators, but things are still up in the air!