Category: Plastic-free food

  • Bulk food shops – buy a little or a lot

    Bulk food shops – buy a little or a lot

    Inertia to start: Moderate to high Difficulty once you get going: Easy Time: No extra time. You just swap the time emptying plastic bags of rice and pasta into your tupperware once you get home for time working out which containers you need to take to the shop. Plastic saved per year: Approximately 400 plastic…

  • Recycling soft plastics at the supermarket!

    Recycling soft plastics at the supermarket!

    I discovered something very exciting this weekend: my local supermarket, New World) is now offering a service that enables customer to recycle their soft plastics. What are soft plastics?  Essentially any plastic bag or plastic wrap, any plastic that you can scrunch up into a ball in your hand. Examples include: Bread bags Cereal bags…