Fair wood for your fire / No box left behind
Fair wood for your fire On Friday Pete Smyth, Fair Wood’s manager, came back to the Fair Food warehouse with a truckload of firewood (that’s it above). After Pete unloaded the four and a half tons of firewood by hand he was heard to say, “I am very tired now.” Pete has been wanting […]
Rejoice – home compostable eco-cellophane. CERES – aiming for zero.
In the week before Christmas Alex,Fair Food’s grocery buyer, sent a joyous email out …. “The day has finally come – I can now say with confidence that all of our pre-packed dry goods come in biodegradable/ compostable packaging. Well, not quite – we still pack salad mix/cleaners etc in degradable plastic bags as we […]
Vic Cardemone is a fixer. What to do with those window bags.
In the Fair Food car park a delivery truck returns from a run with its back step dangling off in an alarming angle. Andrew, the driver, gives it a few tugs and the whole thing breaks off, hitting the concrete with a clang. The call goes over to the CERES Site Team and Vic Cardemone wanders over to take a […]
Ecostore Sugar Cane Packaging, uBiome Contest Winner, Super Cheap Tomatoes & A Job Going at Fair Food
Packaging is such a vexed issue, we struggle with it at Fair Food all the time. Last Monday ecostore took a big packaging leap forward replacing their plastic bottles with bottles made from sugar cane. The bottles don’t breakdown but are made to be recycled with regular plastics so the material can be reused again and […]