According to WRAP, around 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink are thrown away in the UK every year, with the majority being avoidable [1]. This leads to production of methane in landfill, and wastage of all the energy that … Continue reading
Author Archives: Laura Hobbs
Drying Fruit
Around 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink are thrown away every year in the UK [1]. This is often due to food going off or reaching its best before date before it is used. Fresh fruit makes up 13% … Continue reading
Wormeries – Extra-Efficient Composting
Composting food waste reduces the volume of waste that goes to landfill and contributes to methane emissions, and obviously generates compost for garden use. A wormery is a composting system (“vermicomposting”) to which worms are deliberately added. The worms speed … Continue reading
Green Gardening
According to the Horticultural Trades Association [1], the gardening market is holding steady and there has been an increase in sales of bulbs and seeds in recent years. They attributed this to increased interest in home-growing, and people spending more … Continue reading
Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables
Growing fruit and vegetables is becoming more and more popular, with high waiting lists for allotments [1]. However some can be grown in a small garden or even indoors or on a balcony [2], and there are plenty of resources … Continue reading
Sustainability in the Restaurant Business
Running a restaurant of any kind involves many different procedures, from sourcing and cooking food to use of resources and managing waste, all of which can impact the local and wider environment. For example, in 2010 it was reported that … Continue reading
The Microwise Universal Steamer
The Microwise Universal steamer, part of the ecoChef range of Microwise Cookware, can be used to cook vegetables, rice, fish, fruit, eggs and meat. Cooking food in the microwave uses substantially less energy than cooking with an electric oven [1], … Continue reading
How to Save Energy With a Microwave
Defra have established that substantially less energy is used when cooking foods in a microwave than when using an energy efficient electric oven or stovetop, but also found that habit and reluctance to cook with a microwave often contribute to … Continue reading
Easy Car Maintenance for Reduced Resource Consumption
With depleting oil reserves, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and rising petrol and diesel costs, reducing the amount of fuel cars use becomes more and more important. Metal and plastic components also use valuable resources both in primary materials and manufacturing … Continue reading
How Your Microwave can Lower Your Bills
Microwaves cook food by heating the water, fat and sugar within it [1], therefore most foods can be cooked in them. In 2006, Defra produced a report on the amount of energy used when cooking food (in portion sizes ranging … Continue reading
