Vegan Effect

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 25th of June 2021 Zero waste is the idea of having zero waste from businesses and households.  It is an ideal that we may never fully achieve and is more of a goal that we aim for.  For instance, some food packaging is unavoidable.  However, with new shops like Unwrapped form the prospect trust the problem of food packaging could be a thing of the past. Although some changes still need to be made to reach zero waste, this kind of forward thinking is taking us in the right direction. Unwrapped is about 3 - 5 minutes walk from the Cathedral in Ely, England heading towards the Police Station and is situated near the lighthouse community centre. What was on sale? Lentils, beans, pasta and other food items as well as toiletries and cleaning products.  I saw non vegan food, which was a little disappointing and not all the products where zero waste.  Nonetheless, they did have dispensers  for the pasta, beans and lenti...

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 17th of June 2021 If you like Salsa, this is a great way to make it zero waste.  Why buy expensive products in plastic when you can just make them yourself without the plastic packaging for less?  Just remember to buy the loose ingredients. Salsa is the easiest thing to make.  It is low in calories and goes with most things.  Waste Short term Zero. Long term  Zero if you don't use salt or can get it without the packaging. Ingredients  Tomatoes x 5 Onion x 1 small Chillies or Jalapeno peppers x as hot as you like! Salt x a dash (optional)  Herbs (optional) Water x 2 tbsp Method  Step 1 Chop three of the tomatoes and the onion.  Pulse in a blender or continue chopping.  The idea is to get small chunks of tomato and onion not a paste. Poor out into o bowl or container.  Step 2 Blend the remaining two tomatoes to a paste.  Poor the tomato paste over the chopped tomatoes and onion. ...

Written by McDonald, T.   |  Date 31st of May 2021          Are you someone with an environmental conscience?  Do you care about the wildlife?  If the answer is yes, then this report is for you.  You might think saving the world and helping the wildlife is for specialist people with expensive skills.  Not so.  You can play a role in solving one of the biggest problems in the modern world by adopting a zero waste lifestyle and reducing your waste. Abstract In recent years, I have found myself drawn towards an idea of reducing my waste to zero for environmental reasons but was not sure what to do.  The problem of household waste is that much of it might end up in land fill and create problems for the environment, which prompted me to investigate deeper and find out if it was easy and was it realistically possible?  I started off by searching the internet for clues and literature that could h...