Hotbin composting offers a simple, fast and effective way to process food waste. A hotbin’s insulated design keeps temperatures at 40–60°C, allowing you to compost everything from vegetable peelings to…
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Compost your Food Waste
London disposes of 2 million tonnes of food waste per year. Because it usually goes to landfill and causes methane emissions, composting this instead could save 275 thousand tonnes of…
Your Local Coffee Shop Needs You!
We data scientists at EcoCounts have discovered a correlation between people drinking tea and coffee in coffee shops and a force for good in this world. Such customers supporting local…
Chocolate Easter Eggs
It’s been a year since the last eco tip about chocolate, and since then, the price of chocolate in the UK has gone up 50% because of the increased occurrence…
Alcohol in Bottles
Until a national bottle deposit return scheme is created to enable re-use of glass bottles, they will remain the most energy-intensive packaging and transport option for alcohol. Large amounts of…
Induction Hobs
“Now we’re cooking with gas!”, they used to say – a quote from a North Sea gas advert years ago. Cooking with an induction hob is the way to go…
Keep Peat in Bogs not Bags
Mushrooms, for peat’s sake? It seems Britain and Ireland’s mushroom growers use nothing but peat from our extensive CO2-storing peat bogs, adding to the continued decimation and massive CO2 emissions…
Organic and Cheap?
Organic food is produced without agrochemicals but generally costs more. Perversely, some marketing for organic food leads us to believe it’s only for the wealthy, presumably because the marketing is…
Good Coffee
80% of coffee is grown by smallholder farmers, a population of 125 million spreading from Brazil to Vietnam. The farmers are sadly but typically the ones to see the least…
Chocolate
Recently chocolate has been getting a lot of bad press because climate analysts have started to flag up the enormous and damaging land use changes that cocoa agriculture causes. 70%…