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Make good use of Coffee Grounds

Posted by Vivienne Forristal at

As with everything we do in our business, we aim for Zerowaste, along with upcycling and reusing opportunities. Since we've opened our Coffee bar we've been looking for creative ways to reuse the coffee grounds. It is a plant-based resource and safe to use in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. And of course ours is Triple certified (Organic, Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance) so extra valuable. Cleaning out the Fire Cleaning out the cold ashes can be a horrible job when it raises a lot of dust. If you sprinkle used coffee grounds over the ashes first, it makes shovelling it...

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Green School Day - 10 Ecofriendly Tips

Posted by Vivienne Forristal at

If you're looking for practical ecofriendly ideas for Green School Days here are our suggestions. We've compiled 10 Tips for sustainable schooldays and some things to think about. There are a few product links for teachers and parents - we use our shop to promote a greener lifestyle after all (Read About Us for more) - but students can easily skip them. And we've added some websites at the end - hope it helps.

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Composting

Posted by Ciara Quinn at

One million tonnes of food waste is disposed of each year in Ireland, 1/3 of this comes from households and this means that each person is throwing out about 80Kg of food waste each year......

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