Musgrave – Deshocks

What a load of rubbish

Opinion, Personal, Politics

What a load of rubbish

Waste is big news at the moment. With the introduction of pay-by-weight, minds have been concentrated on keeping rubbish to a minimum in a way that environmental concerns have not to date achieved. (There was a documentary on RTE last night about this too - I didn't get to watch it but it revealed some shocking [...]

2019-01-15T11:55:14+00:00 January 15th, 2019|Categories: Opinion, Personal, Politics|Tags: Aldi, Centra, consumer, Cork, environment, Lidl, Musgrave, plastic, retail, Super Valu, waste|

Plastic-free July: The verdict

Personal

Plastic-free July: The verdict

It's been a busy month, made busier by my attempts to try and curb the amount of waste emanating from our small (ish) household of two adults, one baby and two small dogs. One of the reasons I decided to try the plastic-free July experiement was the mountains of stuff we were throwing out every week. [...]

2018-12-01T09:53:11+00:00 July 28th, 2017|Categories: Personal|Tags: Arbutus Bread, Bia Beauty, bulk buying, Centra, Chair salon, Chicken Inn, cloth nappies, Cobh, coffee, cooking, Cork, East Cork, English Market, environmental, Evo Hair, farmers markets, fruit, Glenisk, Green Earth Organics, Green policies, healthy eating, Hickeys of Maylor Street, incentive, Ireland, Keatings Londis, keep cup, Lush, Mac, Musgrave, nappies, O'Mahony's Butchers, ocean plastic, Organic Republic, packaging, plastic, plastic free july, political activism, retail, sanitary products, shopping, Super Valu, vegetables|