Climate change is a long-term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. There are different factors that generate this phenomenon, both from natural...
Date labels: what do they mean?
Date labels are one of the key information that a package conveys to the consumers. Considering the fact that food waste is a major environmental concern, standardized date labeling must...
Bread bags and carbon footprint
Throughout the past decade, climate change issues have risen to the top. People are becoming more and more aware of the potential impacts of global warming. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
Bread Bags Recycling In The UK, US And Canada
For the packaging of bread, buns and tortillas, plastic polyethylene bags are the most sustainable material in terms of resource utilization, water consumption and product/package ratio. However, the end of...
Recycling Identification Numbers: What Do They Mean?
Most of the plastic packaging materials are identified with a number placed inside the universal recycling symbol, the famous three arrow that represent a three-step process that forms a closed...
Food Waste And How Packaging Can Help
Currently, food waste is at an alarming level. According to studies by WRAP [1], households are the biggest contributors to food waste. In the UK alone, 15 million tonnes (33 billion...
Shouldn’t We Be Using Paper Bags?
We’ve heard many times that paper would be a better option than plastic bags. It seems obvious but if we delve a little deeper into the facts then it may...
Why Do We Use Plastic Bags For Bread Anyway?
In simple terms getting rid of plastic packaging all together doesn’t actually solve the problem. The biggest problem with plastic is when it ends up as litter, in landfill and...
Keep Bread Fresh
Bread is one of the most wasted foods in the UK and that’s largely because we don’t eat our crusts and we waste stale bread rather than using it to...
The Essential Bread Bag Facts!
Most sliced bread is put into a polyethylene bag. And yes polyethylene or polythene is plastic which we know can be bad for the planet if not managed carefully. But...
96.7% Of UK Households Buy Bread – That’s A Lot Of Bread!
We love a few facts and figures, don’t you? According to research by the Federation of Bakers wrapped bread is purchased by 96.7% of we shoppers in the UK. That’s...
Recycling The Aussie Way
Recycling for the benefit of the planet is of course a global challenge. Different countries come up with different solutions and it’s always a good idea to learn from each...
Recycle Bread Bags And Lots More Plastic – Watch This
We’re here telling you to recycle your bread bags and explaining how but but it’s not just bread bags that can be recycled in the same way. There are many...
Tesco We Applaud You!
Tesco have finally done what we hoped the supermarkets would do. And where one goes hopefully others will follow! Recycling plastics is something many of us try to do. We...
Kerbside Collection Improvements – At Last!
We always look out for changes and developments in household waste collections. Which sounds a bit nerdy but it’s for good reason. We want it to be as easy as...
Cheers To Recycling Bread And Making Beer!
Food waste, a disaster for the planet but we love forward thinkers who find ways to turn problems into products we can all enjoy, whilst helping reduce food waste. Toast...
Why Should We Recycle Bread Bags?
We all try to play our part in recycling even if it’s only in a small way. The recent campaign to drastically reduce the reliance on single use carrier bags...
Food Waste Worse Than Plastic For Climate Change
According to Zero Waste Scotland, food waste from Scottish homes is even worse for climate change than plastic waste. This is our understanding and why we believe that reducing food...