THE BONNIE BIO BLOG

If you are a lover of the outdoors, you're probably very aware of the negative effect that plastic has had, and continues to have, on our environment. Making the effort to move towards zero waste and go plastic free comes naturally as the best way to preserve the...

Celebrating Plastic-Free July: Quick SustainableTips   What is Plastic-Free July?   Plastic-Free July is a global movement that calls on people to say "no” to single-use plastics. This includes plastic shopping bags, takeaway cups, drinking straws, and other...

Understanding Single-Use Plastic, Zero Waste, and the Circular Economy   What is single-use plastic? Single-use plastics are disposable plastics meant for ‘use-and-throw’.  According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF),  these plastics are incredibly harmful to the...

Leading an eco-friendly lifestyle starts with you. Here are seven simple changes you can make to go green in your home. With sustainable practices becoming more and more mainstream, Britons everywhere are looking for ways to lead a more earth-conscious, eco-friendly...

Plastic has dominated in the manufacture of products and packaging for its accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and durability. The environmental damage being done by plastic has become big news, creating a state of emergency through accelerated climate change,...

The sudden boom in the daily use of plastic products, such as PPE, is adding to the already enormous problem of plastic pollution. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a near-doubling of medical waste, with cities such as Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok...

1 October 2020 saw the ban of a selection of single-use plastics in the United Kingdom. The ban specifically covers plastic straws and stirrers, as well as plastic-stemmed cotton buds. This comes one month after the announcement that the plastic bag charge would be...

With more and more Britons being told to cover their faces, masks are quickly becoming an environmental problem far greater than we could have imagined. To manage the spread of coronavirus, face coverings are now mandatory on public transport, in shops and some...

Compostability is further broken down into 2 categories, home compostable and industrial compostable. The general difference between industrial / professional composting facilities and back yard / home composting facilities is the larger scale, mechanical breaking down / pre-preparation of compostable product…

Some estimates have suggested that microplastics regularly travel vast distances carried by the wind. Microplastics are invisible to the naked eye, but the research found that on average 365 fragments were found on every square meter of land…