Just a quick few lines about some news for South Australia (PFM’s home base of operations) and an incentive for every other country out there that things can be done about it and change can happen even on a governmental level if you want it. South Australia has been leading the way in promoting a […]
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You Will Be Amazed By This Genuine Plastic Free Example.
Perhaps I am jaded but I find in these strange times I am never immediately convinced of a companies sincerity in eco friendly goals. This opinion has formed over the years I have researched into “eco friendly” attempts that on close inspection are not truely plastic free or just plain “greenwashing”. Even working towards making […]
Design Students Harness Chitin (nature’s biopolymer marvel)
If you are a big fan of crabs, prawns (shrimp) or lobster dishes you will know that after your battle with peeling each morsel from their brick red exoskeletons you are left with a large pile of “waste”. This waste can be cooked and blended and turned into a tasty bisque but thats not everyones […]
How to Drink your Cup of Coffee Plastic Free and Eat it too.
Imagine a take away coffee without the plastic cup. Imagine a coffee cup you could actually eat when you finished your morning cuppa ensuring no more plastic rubbish/trash and if you couldn’t fit another morsel in the cup would compost leaving no Microplastics or particles that nature doesn’t know what to do with. For those […]
How to Not be Fooled by “Bio Based Polyethylene” Product Marketing. (It’s Still the Same Plastic, it just Sounds Nicer and Greener).
When someone says to you that their polyethylene bags, etc are bio based and better for the environment, you need to know right now that the plastic produced is no different to petrochemical based polyethylene. What is different is the original age of the substances used to produce them and that bio based polyethylene is […]
How to be a Plastic Free Boss when you Floss
You’ve just eaten a great meal and some time later you notice something stuck between your teeth or you’re just about to head off to bed and you are doing your nightly tooth cleaning ritual. Not everyone flosses but if you do you might want to know a thing or too about that little spool […]
How to Find a Really, Authentic, Genuine Plastic Free Toothbrush.
My husband and I travelled to the Faroe Islands. These are a set of eighteen islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. They are very remote and occupied by families who have been there since the time of the Vikings. We stayed in a very small village at the top of one of […]
The Plastic Free Manifesto
It’s very simple and is still a work evolving. Each point will be expanded upon in future articles.The basic Plastic Free Manifesto is: 1.Love your planet. 2.Reject plastic. 3.Reject synthetics. 4.Reject semi-synthetics. 5.Know your enemy. 6.Don’t recycle plastic, synthetics or semi-synthetics. 7.Recycle non plastics, non synthetics and non semi-synthetics 8.Reject false claims. 9.Embrace truth. 10.Encourage […]