Month: March 2018

What exactly are sustainable cocktails?

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It looks like sustainability is starting to make waves in the drinks world too! Sustainable serves, which means applying eco-friendly principles behind the bar as well as when purchasing drinks ingredients, are cropping up more and more, with businesses thinking about their water, energy and food waste impacts.

To encourage the sustainable cocktail movement, London hotspot Sexy Fish have created a cocktail menu that uses no perishables, with citrus, herbs and garnishes replaced with a homemade range of cordials, syrups and shrubs, as well as an accompanying recipe book which shows people how to re-create the drinks at home.

Find out more here

One Planet Plate

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One Planet Plate is a restaurant movement that puts sustainability on the menu. Restaurants across the UK will be serving special sustainable dishes this weekend as part of the campaign, which is launching on Saturday 24 March, to coincide with WWF’s Earth Hour.

Head over to the One Planet Plate website, find a participating restaurant near you and try their special dish first hand! Share your pics and thoughts on social using #oneplanetplate

Make Toast Not Waste

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Every day in the UK, 24 million slices of bread are thrown away – that’s a frightening 1 million slices every single hour.

Love Food Hate Waste has launched the Make Toast Not Waste campaign to help all of us in the UK reduce the astronomical amounts of bread that are currently going to waste, simply by popping our loaves in the freezer.

Did you know you can make toast straight from frozen bread and it taste just as good as if you made it from fresh? Find out more about the campaign and get loads of toast topper inspiration over at the Make Toast Not Waste campaign page. Don’t forget to share your best toast topper ideas on social using #maketoastnotwaste

Meet some of the UK’s food waste warriors

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According to the sustainability charity Wrap, around 10 million tonnes of food has been binned in the UK every year since 2012. That’s enough loaves of bread to almost fill Wembley Stadium; enough milk to fill 230 Olympic-sized swimming pools; and the weight of 365 blue whales in bananas alone. Food waste within homes accounted for more than 70% of this, and yet in a recent survey by Wrap, nearly 60% of people said they never, or rarely, wasted food – we’re in denial!

Meet some of the food waste warriors who are tackling the problem head on.