Comments on: Government launches CO2 counter http://blog.riverford.co.uk/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/ News from Riverford Organic Vegetables Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Queens Park Pete http://blog.riverford.co.uk/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-4 Queens Park Pete Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:11:12 +0000 http://riverford.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-4 One example of supermarket greenwash was this week's story of the local organic Welsh carrots, sold in Welsh supermarkets as low food mile carrots even though packing "rules" meant they had to travel all the way to Peterborough for polishing and grading before they went to Bristol for final packing and then back to west Wales to be sold as local veg! One example of supermarket greenwash was this week’s story of the local organic Welsh carrots, sold in Welsh supermarkets as low food mile carrots even though packing “rules” meant they had to travel all the way to Peterborough for polishing and grading before they went to Bristol for final packing and then back to west Wales to be sold as local veg!

]]> By: alwyn & eric ellis - thurston, http://blog.riverford.co.uk/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-3 alwyn & eric ellis - thurston, Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:09:13 +0000 http://riverford.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-3 its about time we had access to organic meat- IF ITS AS GOOD AS THE VEG. & SALAD IT WILL DO WELL-[FINGERS CROSSED ] its about time we had access to organic meat- IF ITS AS GOOD AS THE VEG. & SALAD IT WILL DO WELL-[FINGERS CROSSED ]

]]> By: trudi murray http://blog.riverford.co.uk/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-2 trudi murray Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:52:23 +0000 http://riverford.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/government-launches-co2-counter/#comment-2 We did a mini sustainability audit of our own shopping habits in our family, looking at what we bought to eat,where we bought it and how it was packaged. Then thinking about which of that packaging we could recycle, or not. As a result of that, we decided not to buy or eat certain things anymore. For example, we used to buy two pots of Riverford yoghurt a week. That's a lot of empty, sturdy, plastic pots! So, I took all the empty pots to school so they could keep pencils in them. Then I learnt how to make yoghurt myself. (Sorry, Riverford). But it's quite easy, after a bit of trial and error. I agree that sustainabilty is a large and complicated issue but I really believe that little things, done on a household level, can make a difference. We did a mini sustainability audit of our own shopping habits in our family, looking at what we bought to eat,where we bought it and how it was packaged. Then thinking about which of that packaging we could recycle, or not. As a result of that, we decided not to buy or eat certain things anymore. For example, we used to buy two pots of Riverford yoghurt a week. That’s a lot of empty, sturdy, plastic pots! So, I took all the empty pots to school so they could keep pencils in them. Then I learnt how to make yoghurt myself. (Sorry, Riverford). But it’s quite easy, after a bit of trial and error.

I agree that sustainabilty is a large and complicated issue but I really believe that little things, done on a household level, can make a difference.

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