Please shop responsibly

This week, we set off eagerly with the task of purchasing responsibly. We wanted to limit the amount of plastic we brought and buy items that used recycled materials and that could be recycled after use. We also wanted to buy items that were environmentally friendly and used sustainable methods. In particular, we wanted to…

Plastic… not so fantastic!

Did you know: Globally we purchase 20,000 plastic bottles every second. This equates to 1 million per minute and in 2016 480 billion plastic bottles were sold. Fewer than half of the bottles collected were collected for recycling, with a mere 7% recycled and turned into  new bottles. Worryingly, the majority of plastic bottles produced…