On Monday 17th September Transition Leytonstone launched London’s fifth Community Fridge and the first of its kind in Waltham Forest. The fridge is being launched with the backing of North London Waste Authority and Bosch in a growing effort to tackle food waste. Support also comes from environmental charity Hubbub which runs the national Community […]
Sparkling water brand SodaStream, has launched its new environmental global campaign – “The Homo-schlepiens” – featuring The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik and Kristian Nairn from Game of Thrones. Set in the future, “The Homo-schlepiens” sees Mayim as an anthropologist, recalling her first encounter with a Homo-schlepien played by Kristian. The story moves backwards and forwards in time to reflect […]
February 27 sees the launch of Halo, a challenger coffee brand which has started with a purpose – to give people the world’s best coffee, in a way they want it, that’s best for the world. Halo is the world’s first fully compostable coffee capsule filled with the finest, rarest and most desirable fresh coffee […]
Results from a new poll show nearly 3 in 10 people don’t recycle as much as they could, with 38% of those people citing confusing information on packaging or from local authorities as the reason. These figures are more pronounced among younger people, with those aged 16-34 least likely to say that they recycle all […]
Too Good To Go, an app that has just launched its service in London, enables users to buy excess food from restaurants at a discounted rate as takeaway meals. The average restaurant wastes around 100,000 lbs of food a year, with the US, Asia and Europe throwing away enough food to feed the world’s population […]
Lifestyle website Inhabitat recently introduced us to “the world’s smartest pizza box”—the “GreenBox” is an “eco-friendly, easy-to-use, transforming design” that improves upon the conventional, inefficient pizza box. Designed by the late William Walsh after a series of experimentation, the GreenBox is a patented design that is made of 100% recycled materials—it is now available in […]
Train travellers in northern Japan can use KitKat as train tickets as part of a pioneering scheme to rejuvenate tourism in a part of the country devastated by the earthquake and tsunami three years ago. It is the first time a Japanese rail company has allowed chocolate bar packaging to be used as a valid […]
Tesco is cutting the buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) promotions on its bagged salads after finding that 68% of them end up being wasted by consumers. The supermarket said the move is a first in response to its own research into food waste, which tracked 25 of its bestselling products to better understand where food waste occurs from […]
Nestlé has announced it will achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European factories by 2020. This means that no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without energy being recovered from the process. “The decision to achieve zero waste illustrates Nestlé’s commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices,” said Laurent Freixe, Nestlé […]
“We grow enough food to feed every single person on the planet, yet millions of people go to bed hungry.” This is just one eye-opening fact that can be found in the video, ‘Food Waste: A Story of Excess’ by Visual.ly. Other startling facts include how half of the food produced in the United States […]