Vegan Life Issue 85, July 2022

Vegan Planet Boston, MA, USA: City gets world’s largest vegan sports bar Just opposite Boston’s Fenway Park baseball stadium is a brand- new vegan sports bar, PlantPub. It’s the second PlantPub venue and a collaboration between the company’s founders Pat McAuley (serial entrepreneur), Sebastanio Casssio Castiglioni (vegan investor), and Mary Dumont (head chef), in partnership with Matthew Kenney (celebrity vegan chef). According to the founders, the new PlantPub seeks to make vegan food approachable and fun for people everywhere, allowing sports fans to eat better for both themselves and the planet. It will serve familiar favourites with locally sourced, sustainable ingredients, including burgers, nachos, buffalo cauliflower wings, pizza, sundaes and Boston cream pie. Five times the size of the original location (launched in Cambridge in 2021), the new PlantPub can seat almost 300 people, and features a substantially larger kitchen, which means that Dumont and her team will be able to work on additional menu items throughout the year. PlantHub Boston also serves a substantial drinks menu which features a range of non-alcoholic and alcoholic craft beers and cocktails, all of which have been sourced from New England brewers and producers. In an interview, Dumont commented on the launch: “We are mimicking all of the flavours that people know and love in a complete plant-based form. We have an opportunity to expose so many people to a new way of eating that is becoming more and more mainstream.” (livekindly.co) It’s certainly an exciting opening and a venue that is sure to encourage people from all walks of life to try vegan food for the first time. Santorini, Greece: Island gets its first-ever sustainable vegan boutique hotel Known for its azure blue waters and gorgeous white architecture, the idyllic Greek island of Santorini is now also home to its first vegan boutique hotel. The swanky MOD Santorini (modsantorini.com) opened at the end of last summer, but this year will mark its first full tourist season, in a more ‘normal’, post-COVID world. The stunning hotel was originally built in 1980 and features four new luxury suites, a vegan kitchen and a rooftop for yoga classes and workshops. All aspects of MOD are vegan, from the bed sheets to the food served, whilst the hotel also aims to be as low waste as possible. Everything in the hotel was made using sustainable materials, plastic use is limited, and water is heated using solar power. Founded by Christina Boutrou, a Greek Australian, and Anargyros Fousteris, a Santorinian, MOD will enable the owners to share their love of plant-based living, Greek food and culture — guests can enjoy local wine tasting and visits to traditional villages, included in trip packages. Although the complex is still undergoing renovations, it is ready to welcome guests into its calming and comfortable space. Malaysia: Country sees debut of ingredient- Image by Hoshay Food. creative vegan snacks and ready-meals With 26 years of experience producing and exporting soya-based food products, Malaysian brand Hoshay Food (hoshayfood.com) has turned its attention to creating a new range of cruelty-free snacks and ready-meals. In its latest series, named ‘Sizzle, Munchies and Now’, Hoshay has invested in research and development into more natural, less processed food products with a focus on nutrition. Using healthful ingredients like tofu skin and shiitake mushrooms, Hoshay is giving consumers more choice to switch out meat and dairy products. Primed to become a consumer favourite is Hoshay’s Crispy Fried Chicken, which is pre-fried and coated with herbs and spices. 101

Vegan Planet 7 ways to… KFRHÏOS\\XRQXLUW\\ The people we live near are so important, so make sure that you look after them It’s true that there is a lot of hardship 2. Shop with locally and crafters. You never know, you in the UK (and worldwide) right owned businesses might discover a wonderful vegan cake now, with most people touched by baker, uncover a new favourite band or rising bills, increasing worries and Do you usually head out of your village simply make a friend from within your fears for the future. You never know what or town to do your shopping? Why not community. Local events are brilliant to someone is going through, whether it’s start getting what you can at your local get to know your neighbours better, by your elderly neighbour next door, the greengrocers, zero-waste store or corner connecting on common interests and single parent who lives down your road shop? Many businesses are struggling sharing some fun. or the owner of your local greengrocers. right now, with higher running costs and Who do we turn to in these times of less frequent visitors who are trying to 4. Look for opportunities to give uncertainly, if not our community, the save money. But we must remember in your community people who live alongside us, who we that our local shop owners and workers call our neighbours and friends? It is vital are people just like us, with bills to pay Whenever there are chances to give to that we support one another in times like and mouths to feed, and if we, their those who are wanting, try to offer what these, whether that support comes in the community do not support them, no you can. Many schools collect items for form of an offer of help, a cup of tea or one will. By shopping at your local shop, less fortunate families, like unopened even just a friendly smile. Here are seven you are directly helping them to remain canned foods and dried pantry goods, simple but thoughtful ideas that you open. Your money will go back into the old shoes and clothing. Contact your can carry out to assist the people in community, instead of going into the local primary or secondary school to find your community. pockets of corporal business owners and out if they would like anything that you investors. If the prices at your nearest have going spare. 1. Litter-pick when you go for store are higher than those you would a walk normally travel to and you can’t afford to do all your shopping there, just buy what If you enjoy a daily or weekly walk, take you can — even if it is just a low-cost a bin bag and a grabber out with you. item like a bunch of bananas or a Collect rubbish as you stroll to help keep carton of oat milk — then buy other your town clean and tidy, and as a means items elsewhere. of saying thank you to your surroundings and the people that live alongside you. If 3. Attend local festivals you find that you really enjoy the activity, and events you could always take it one step further and start a weekly or monthly litter- Most towns run numerous picking club for other locals to join. It’s a events for the community great way to keep fit, meet new people throughout the year — and make your town more pleasant fêtes, markets, regattas, to look at, as well as safer for everyone craft fairs, festivals or to enjoy. gigs, so show your face and support your local businesses, performers 102

Additionally, most villages and frequent bulk cooker or a serial over- towns will have a food bank, if cooker, save a portion of your dish for an you find yourself with a surplus elderly, vulnerable or too-busy-to-cook of unopened and unperishable neighbour. It will provide you with a foods, donate them. Or, if you lovely opportunity to get to know them can afford it, buy an extra box better, save your neighbour from cooking of cereal or pack of rice next for a day, and make them realise that time you’re shopping to give there is someone close by who is thinking away. Head to trusselltrust. of them. org to find out where your nearest food bank is. 7. Use your gardening skills 5. Check on If you love to garden and have some time your neighbours to spare, why not use your abilities to beautify your local area? Speak to your Making someone’s day is just local councillor and ask if you can help a phone call or knock away, to establish and maintain a communal especially elderly people who garden area. A green space complete you know don’t often get visitors. If with gorgeous trees, shrubs, flowers and you have someone living down your road benches will put a smile on the faces who you think could use a pick-me-up or of all who walk past it or venture to sit some company, give them a ring or tap within. You could even make it into an on their door for a chat, or invite them edible garden, adding fruit trees and round for a cup of tea or coffee. bushes like apple and blackberry, herbs such as rosemary and mint, and fast- Every day there are people going growing and well-fruiting crops including through difficult times without us tomato and cucumber plants. knowing about it; take time to get to know your neighbours, find out more If you wanted, you could take this about the challenges they face and think further by seeing if other people from about how you might help. Perhaps your community want to get involved. they need help getting their shopping or Teach other people what you know about picking up their prescription, maybe all maintaining a garden and growing fruit, they need is a friendly face to show that veg and herbs. Gardening, especially of they are cared for. Loneliness is a growing food, is a great skill to develop as issue that can often be difficult to detect, it can enable you to become more but we all have the power to uplift a self-sufficient. neighbour in need. Next time you get the lawn mower 6. Share your food out to cut your grass, why not ask your neighbour if they would like you to do Food is a great way to connect with theirs, too? It’s a simple gesture but others and show people that they are one that many people will appreciate, thought of and cared for. There’s nothing especially elderly residents who nicer than receiving a knock on the door struggle to bend and walk, and busy and opening it to a friendly face with a neighbours who don’t have time to trim freshly cooked meal or treat. If you are a their own garden.

Vegan Planet How to succeed at SOD-VXWLOF\\IUHH Handy tips and tricks on lasting a whole month without plastic W e all know that the use of According to the charity: • Always keep a refillable water bottle with plastic is bad — for the • Plastic Free July participants reduce environment, for wildlife you, to save having to purchase water in and for our health. Yet their household waste and recycling by plastic bottles. with so many products being made from 15kg per person per year (3.5 per cent or packaged in plastic (and with much of less waste). • If you know you are likely to buy a hot it single-use) it seems almost inescapable. But it’s possible to avoid plastic, if not in • Partakers reduced 2.1 billion tonnes of drink when out, keep a reusable coffee all areas of our lives, then in most of them. cup in your bag. With a few conscious choices, swaps and waste and recycling in 2021, including evasions, we can reduce or eliminate 300 million kgs of plastic consumption. • Keep a reusable food storage box on plastic from major parts of our everyday, like from the food and drink we consume, • In 2021, 86 per cent of people made your person, preferably one that’s not the bags we use, where we shop and how made from plastic, like those from we entertain ourselves. If you are looking changes that have become habits/a way Elephant Box (elephantbox.co.uk) or A for a way to challenge your plastic use, of life. Slice of Green (asliceofgreen.com). When why not take part in Plastic Free July? buying food on the go, ask if staff will • After 11 years, Plastic Free July has prepare your meal in your box, instead of What is Plastic Free July? a single-use container. reduced global demand by 2.3 per cent Beginning in 2011, Plastic Free July of all bottled water, 3.1 per cent of all • Pack a reusable cutlery set in your bag, (plasticfreejuly.org) is an initiative founded fruit and vegetable packaging, 4 per cent by Australian non-profit charity the Plastic of all plastic straws. so that if you ever grab a takeaway meal, Free Foundation; it allows them to work you can refuse plastic knife and fork sets. towards their vision of seeing a world free How can we take part? Bamboo kits are great, as are stainless from plastic, with the belief that small steel — though bamboo is lighter to changes add up to a big difference. From The happy news is that anyone can get carry! Don’t forget to pack a reusable its humble origins, Plastic Free July is now involved in Plastic Free July, all is takes is a straw too. one of the most influential campaigns little bit of planning, some motivation and around the world. Each year, millions a whole lot of refusing plastic! Depending Shopping of people take part from more than 190 on your lifestyle and schedule, you can different countries, with many participants start out small or really challenge yourself. Just as buying food and drink to committing to reducing plastic far beyond Here are some ideas for reducing and eat on-the-go can incur pollutive the month of July. eliminating the plastic in your life. plastic, so can purchasing food from a supermarket. So much is packed in Eating and drinking plastic that is impossible to avoid it in many circumstances. Luckily, there are a This is a biggie — it can be extremely few simple steps you can take to limit or difficult to avoid plastic when buying or eliminate plastic when out shopping: consuming food and drink, since so much is packaged in pesky plastic. Try these • Take your own reusable canvas bags out handy tips: with you to pack your shopping in. 104

Vegan Planet • If you shop at a supermarket, weigh would be thrown away each year Easy plastic-free swaps (nationalgeographic.com). The case is the out and buy fruit and veg loose — most same for toothpaste, with most individuals Products to see you through Plastic stores offer this service, including Tesco, going through an average of seven tubes Free July Sainsbury’s and Morrisons (who in per year. 2018 began offering an incredible 127 The Beeswax varieties of fruit and veg loose!). Plastic toothbrushes are a fairly recent Wrap Co. invention, with those made from natural • Shop at zero-waste stores, which sell fibres being used up until the 1930s, Vegan Eco Kitchen when the first plastic brush was made. Starter Kit everything loose and instead ask you to Toothbrushes and paste aren’t the only All the essentials bring your own containers to weigh out plastic dental products though — you for a plastic-free your purchases into. Bulk food stores are might want to check what your dental floss kitchen, including also great. is made from and packaged in, since most solid dish soap, comprise of nylon, polyester, PFAS (Per- and natural dish • Make more of your own food and drinks Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) Teflon or Gore- scrubber, two vegan wax wraps and a Tex, and nearly all are housed in a plastic vegan wax refresh bar. from scratch. A lot of the food we buy case. But you can easily avoid using plastic £28, beeswaxwraps.co.uk comes packaged in plastics, but by in your dental hygiene regime, it might just making it all yourself, you eliminate the take a few searches and swaps. Here are One Village plastic middleman! If you follow a whole some ideas to start you off: food plant-based diet, you probably Neem Soap Bar already make most of your own patties, • Swap your plastic toothbrush for a Neem oil is known ‘sausages’ and desserts, removing the in the tropics as a need for packaging in your life if you buy bamboo one. great healer for skin, ingredients from zero-waste stores. especially dry skin. One Village • Opt for plastic-free dental floss; just be neem soap is almost 50 per cent Celebrating neem oil whilst free from artificial aware that a lot of ‘eco-friendly’ floss is chemicals. What’s more, it works As lovely as balloons, streamers, confetti coated in beeswax and therefore won’t well as an alternative to liquid and banners are, they can all easily be be vegan-friendly. Look up Bambaw shampoo, avoiding plastic bottles swapped out for reusable or plastic- (bambaw.com), Tio (tio.care) &Keep and anticoagulants. free items. With a little bit of creativity (andkeep.com) online stores which all Four 125g bars for £16, onevillage.com and forward planning, you can plan a stock refillable, vegan dental floss. party that’s free from all types of plastic Klean decorations. Popular decorations that can • Use toothpaste tablets, like those Kanteen be homemade and/or reused include: from Eco Living (ecoliving.co.uk), Food Boxes • Bunting made from old magazines, &Keep (andkeep.com) and PÄRLA This set (parlatoothpastetabs.com). from Klean jeans, T-shirts or fabric off-cuts. Kanteen contains Sanitary items everything you need to • Tissue paper pom poms. store food for when out and about • Banners created from old T-shirts For people who menstruate, period at work, picnicking or travelling. products are a monthly essential. Sadly, Coming in three convenient sizes for or tablecloths. most mainstream brands of sanitary items kids and adults on the go, they are produce single-use pads and panty-liners perfect for snacks, lunches • Bouquets of flowers from your garden made from and packaged in plastic, as or leftovers. well as tampons with plastic applicators. From £22.95, kleankanteen.co.uk (or a friend’s). There are loads of ways to resolve this issue though, by making a few sustainable Lady Days • Confetti made from petals, dried leaves swaps in the menstruation products you use. Challenge yourself to do one Lady Luscious or old newspapers. of the following: Cloth Pad Set Have an eco- • Salt dough baubles and hanging shapes. • Buy plastic-free sanitary towels. Great period, with this bundle Likewise, friends and neighbours can be brands include Organyc (organyc.uk) of five cotton a great source of reusable decorations or and Flo (hereweflo.co). pads in different materials for crafting your own. Before you flow levels, go out and buy anything, put out a word • Switch to reusable pads, like those from including to those around you and see what you pantyliner, light, can borrow or have. On top of this, avoid Lady Days (ladydaysclothpads.co.uk), regular and heavy. disposable plastic cups and plates and Moontimes (moontimes.co.uk) and £35, ladydaysclothpads.co.uk instead, borrow the crockery and cutlery Earthwise Girls (earthwisegirls.co.uk). needed for your party from friends and family, or if you must, opt for eco-friendly • Opt for reusable period pants — paper plates and cups. Dame (wearedame.co) and Cheeky Wipes Dental care (cheekywipes.com) offer tonnes of options. How many toothbrushes and tubes • Swap to plastic-free tampons, such of toothpaste do you get through in a year? The American Dental Association as products from Organic Mondays recommends that everyone replace their (organicmondays.co.uk), Natracare toothbrushes every three to four months, (natracare.com) and Hey Girls so if everyone in America was to follow (heygirls.co.uk). that advice, over one billion toothbrushes 105

Vegan Planet IR9XHQJDGQHG Plant-based start-ups you need on your radar This month’s founders: Luke Thorpe and Deby McLennan SAVI Snacks, Tips for others Weymouth, Dorset, UK Seek out as much advice and support as you can from other vegan Our vegan story businesses; we can all help each other. We have both been vegetarians for most of our lives (Luke since he The best thing about being vegan was two years old and Deby since she was 24 years old, when she met Luke) and in early 2019 we transitioned to a plant-based diet; We both found it makes us feel healthier and gives us more for our health, for the animals and not least for the planet. It just energy; who doesn’t want that? It also gives us a feeling of ‘doing felt the natural thing to do. We’re only sorry we didn’t do it earlier. the right thing’, for so many reasons; the animals, the planet and our health. Early inspiration You’re stranded on an island. What one vegan We created SAVI Snacks when we realised there was a gap in the product/treat would you want with you? market for a tasty, healthy savoury snack bar. We found sugary cereal bars too sweet for our liking and the alternative of crisps Deby could not live without lip balm, she has them in every and nuts too high in fat. This inspired us to create a healthy option pocket. If she sees a vegan lip balm she’ll buy it! Luke would take in the form of a vegan savoury snack bar. his newly acquired Gozney Roccbox Pizza oven, it really does cook pizzas to perfection. 106 Fun fact We founded our first business, a vegetarian café called Walnut Grove 30 years ago. 25 years later we opened another successful vegetarian and vegan café, Café Piccolo, which we have now sold in order to concentrate on SAVI Snacks. What’s next We’ve only just launched with our first three flavours and have other exciting variations in the pipe line. We are also working on Mini Crunchy Snack Packs and a SAVI recipe book. For more from SAVI Snacks, visit savisnacks.com or follow @savisnacks on Instagram.

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Vegan Planet Photography to protect all creatures Beth Lily Redwood believes that all sentient beings are worthy of life, here, she tells us how art can communicate and enable this 108

Vegan Planet A rtist, photographer, graphic ourselves and touch our innate heart of animals desperately need people to designer and writer, Beth Lily compassion for animals. I asked Frans, understand — that they are sentient, Redwood, is a creative of “What about farm animals — cows, pigs, conscious, have complex thoughts and many talents. chickens, goats, sheep, turkeys — aren’t feelings, a physical body that feels pain, With a passion for farm animals, Beth they also worth caring for and protecting? and a right to bodily integrity just like routinely gives a face to the creatures Frans replied, seemingly dismissively, our cherished companion animals and made faceless by the agricultural “That’s your thing — you do that,” and fellow human beings. Animal farming industry using powerful photography and I was initially disappointed but then industries keep animals hidden because storytelling. We chat to the photographer I took his words as an empowerment to if the public saw how egregiously about how she got started and what the dedicate my skillset to advocating for they routinely suffer on farms and in future holds. farm animals and veganism. slaughterhouses, people would not buy the products and profits would Hello, Beth! When and why did Since that day, I’ve regularly visited disappear. Because people don’t know you first become vegan? sanctuaries, photographed formerly farmed animals, they tend to think of farmed animals and advocated on their them as abstractions, as all the same, but In June 2005, I became vegan behalf. I joined The Art of Compassion by sharing their stories, their names and immediately after watching the Project, an international collective their personalities, I hope to change how original Peaceable Kingdom film. The of vegan artists who hold group they are viewed. film masterfully juxtaposed the heart- exhibitions and donate proceeds to wrenching, routine suffering of farmed organisations that promote animal Do you think that art has the animals with the heart-lifting joy these rights and veganism. I have contributed power/capability to change same animals experienced when they photography, art and/or graphic design minds, beliefs and behaviours? were rescued by Farm Sanctuary. At the images to Melanie Joy’s Beyond Carnism, time, I was praying daily for ‘the causes Veganuary, VFC, activist Genesis Butler, Ideally, art can bypass the rationalising and conditions for happiness and the United Poultry Concerns, The Animal mind and connect to a deeper end of suffering for all sentient beings’, Museum, as well as various sanctuaries, consciousness where the wisdom of the yet I ate foods and wore clothes that organisations, galleries, and social intuitive, compassionate heart resides. were the direct result of causing the very media sites. Most people say they would never animals I was praying for to suffer. Seeing intentionally harm an innocent animal, the unbearable suffering of mother cows Talk us through your and yet if they are not vegan, their being separated from their babies, I as a artistic style. behaviour is not in alignment with their woman, a mother, an animal lover, and a values. Every artistic effort to challenge spiritual person, could never again justify My artistic style is to sharply focus on basic beliefs about farmed animals holds consuming any products from animals. animal’s faces in the warm, vibrant, the potential to transform non-vegans natural setting of their sanctuary home. into vegans. I also had the wisest teacher in the Sanctuaries, to me, are holy places, a form of my beloved cat. Although she was kind of heaven on Earth where all are Do you have any exciting elderly and sick, she made every effort respected, cared for and loved. It’s projects coming up? to find joy, be with the family she loved where individuals with the fortunate and avoid pain. Her life was as important karma of being saved live with pleasure, Now that in-person activities are to her as mine was to me, and I began to companionship, natural movement, fresh happening again, I’m excited that The see the oneness I share with every animal air, nurturing and safety. They serve as Art of Compassion Project is having an who also wants happiness and to avoid ambassadors for the nameless millions art exhibition at the upcoming VegFest pain. Every individual is someone, not or billions of their species who are UK London 2022. I am grateful to be one something, with an irreplaceable life that condemned to an inescapable, hellish fate. of 52 artists in that group creating art for matters to them. an animal oracle deck and book that will I shoot with a Nikon D750 camera and be showcased at the exhibition. I’m also At what point did you decide edit in Lightroom and Photoshop. looking forward to photographing more to combine your passions of I choose photos with engaging rescued animals and helping sanctuaries. photography and veganism? expressions and gestures that reveal the personality, beauty and essence of the For more from Beth, visit My moment of empowerment occurred subject. I share the images as photos or bethlilyredwood.com and follow her when I asked a question of Frans Lanting, digitally transform them into works of on Instagram at @bethlilyredwood. a BBC Wildlife Photographer of the art. While my images show happy Year, who was an instructor at a nature animals enjoying their lives, an essential photography workshop I attended in part of my social media posts is to 2012. The class was shown beautiful include text that advocates for animal images of wild animals and natural rights and veganism. landscapes and told that it was our responsibility to use our photos to open What do you hope to people’s hearts and minds to caring for communicate with your work? and protecting these sacred animals and places. I was particularly moved by My goal is to end animal farming by a photo of a gorilla and the explanation shifting the speciesist mindset that that when we see a close-up, intimate animals exist for our use. I hope to portrait of an animal, we recognise communicate not only the personhood of farmed animals but also what these 109

Vegan Planet Besties, Biers and Snacks When two friends are aligned in ethics, it can only mean one thing: plastic-free and vegan fun! By Laura Gaga My vestie (vegan bestie), beer, Bier Company was founded by best extremely important to us. “We believe Sammy, recently moved mates Stefan White and Tom Renshaw. the reason a lot of snack companies aren’t back home to the UK from Similarly, to Sammy and me, Stefan following suit and switching to sustainable Dubai at the same time that and Tom’s values align. The pair made a alternatives is simply down to cost and I was taking annual leave from work. This commitment to sustainable can packaging resistance to investing in alternative is why we are mates — we are aligned! for their nuts, becoming the first snack in methods of production and packaging — With gig tickets booked, nights out and a Europe to do so. as plastic packets remain far cheaper than stay at a seaside caravan planned, it was recyclable alternatives.” time to crack open the champagne! I say In a statement online, Tom explains the champagne but truthfully, we are not brand’s ethics: “At Bier Company, we have “At the Bier Company, we are really champagne drinking kind of gals a strong commitment to sustainability and determined to help solve the problem and (think more a lemonade budget), so it was it’s one of the founding principles demand change, prioritising our planet beers over bubbles. of the company. Our snack product and people over profit. Creating greater Bier Nuts was the first truly plastic- awareness of the disparity between We are partial to a cheeky pre-drink, free packaged snack in the UK! They dynamic, forward-thinking companies like even taking a couple of cans out with us come in fully recyclable steel cans with ourselves and the ‘old school’ giants that for the journey. I kind of feel like this ought aluminium lids, helping us to reduce still prioritise profit over sustainability is to be my cue to say, ‘drink responsibly, plastic waste. Traditionally, nuts come really important.” readers’, but considering bar prices these in single-use plastic packets, which go days I don’t know how anyone can afford straight to landfills. Our cans are recycled If, like Sammy and I, or Stefan and Tom, to do otherwise! We paid £6.50 a pint and made into new cans within 90 days of you and your bestie are aligned when it at the Foals concert in West London! hitting the recycling system. Shockingly, comes to sustainability and snacks, why Fortunately, we are not only aligned when less than nine per cent of single-use plastic not clink cans and drink to this. If you it comes to having time off but also when packets that are sent for recycling are are not aligned, then what better way to it comes to being fed and watered. Online actually recycled and can take up to 400 discuss sustainability, and show them the shop, Bier Company (biercompany.co.uk) years to break down naturally!” vegan sign, than over a cold beer? had been in touch offering me a sample box of their beers and snacks, and the box “We have also made sure our packaging For more from Laura, follow her on arrived on the same day that Sammy did! is plastic-free by using cardboard, Instagram @reduction_raider1 In the box was 12 independent craft beers, gummed paper tape and no bubble wrap Or listen to her on episodes 2 and 16 of most clearly labelled vegan, sweet chilli for glassware packaging, plus, all our Vegan Life Magazine Podcast, flavour crisps, jalapeño crunchy coated beers come in easily recycled aluminium veganlifemag.com/vegan-podcast. peanuts and also a masala curry flavour. cans. Many of our cans already contain a All the snacks are happily suitable for high percentage of recycled metals.” twhaesltoewlidfeoswtynleon living a low cost and vegans. There was also a beer glass, beer mats and a pair of socks — I’m wondering “Our commitment goes far deeper than Get who told them about the holes in mine! simply the packaging that everyone sees. low Bier Company recently launched a Unlike brands that just make a customer- subscription service, using the discount facing ‘show’ of sustainability, we also code on their website you can get a box of heavily limit the amount of pallet wrap eight beers, glass, snack and beer guide for used in our warehouse operation and all £12.95 — each beer working out at almost cardboard waste from our suppliers is a fiver less than what we paid in Olympia! crushed in an automatic cardboard baler. These bails are loaded onto FSC It turns out that Sammy and I are not sustainable timber pallets and go straight the only best mates to enjoy a bargain into a recycling plant.” “Doing our part for the environment is 110





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