– Phillipa Temmink
The first Zero Waste Shop will be opening in Wokingham this spring in Peach Place. The shop will be the new home for Maya’s Refillables, a small local business that started and grew up at Wokingham Market and online.
As a passionate sustainability champion, Maya’s dream was to facilitate her…
Are your wardrobes full? Do you buy too many clothes? Are you worried about the clothing
production processes and how they damage the environment? Are you bothered by how many
clothes are just thrown away each year?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions, then why not try the…
The fashion industry accounts for around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions per year. Cheap fabrics like polyester, nylon, polyamide and acrylic fibres omit tiny pollutants into our water systems both during manufacture and washing too! We should therefore be looking at whether we really do need that new dress, top, suit, or fleece and…
Is it necessary?
Plastic packaging is used in the food supply chain because it supports the safe distribution of food
over long distances and minimises food waste by keeping food fresh for longer.
However has this just become an industry habit and can they reduce the amount they use, change their practices or use an alternative?
If you…