Sunshine 106.8FM – Weekly Tips 29 – Recycling Post Christmas

With Christmas behind us, we took a look at recycling tips for this time of year:   Any unwanted presents canalways be donated to charity shops or shelters or consider regifting to friends and family throughout the year.   Most Christmas cards, wrapping paper and gift tags can be put into your household recycling bin. Just be sure […]

Sunshine 106.8 FM – Weekly Tips 27 – SLATED

Some tips on how to be more sustainable this Christmas: Quality not quantity: Around half of UK adults say they have received gifts they don’t want at Christmas1. When buying gifts think less but better, putting the time into picking a quality item that will last a long time.   Gift an experience: Gifting an experience […]

Sunshine 106.8 FM – Weekly Episode 27 – SLATED

We continue our festive series with Tara Hammond co-founder of Dublin homeware brand ‘SLATED’ who tells us why their focus is on producing traditional, artisan gifts that are sustainable and eco-friendly with packaging that will soon be 100% plastic free. For more in this series listen in to Sunshine 106.8FM every Monday at 7pm.

Sunshine 106.8 FM – Weekly Tips 26 – Sustainable Christmas

Ours to Protect on Sunshine 106.8 – December 4th 2023 As the festive season begins in earnest award-winning sustainable food writer and author Caroline Kennedy offers advice on how to make the Christmas dinner table and home entertaining more sustainable this year without compromising any of the festive cheer Some tips for cooking sustainably at […]

Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 28 – Cork Pot Grown Christmas Trees

Did You Know: Artificial trees have higher energy consumption. They are made of plastic, produced in countries with less energy efficient measures and transportation across the world adds to a lengthy carbon footprint. When artificial trees have served their time they end up in landfill for years and years. Cut trees surprisingly are the better […]