Don’t get wasted this Christmas!
Hands up who’s feeling festive? Got the tree up? Planned the Christmas dinner? We’ve been doing all those things at Nina & Co., but much as we love this very special time of year, we HATE the massive amount of
Food waste – from field to plate!
Everyone bangs on about food waste. The Nina & Co. team certainly does. But we tend to think of food waste as the left-overs we put in our bins or supermarkets surplus stock. Hands up who has thought about what
How people power won the day in Bethnal Green
I know a lot of my regular readers are used to me ranting and raving about the supermarkets, food waste and injustices in general. Today you’re in for a surprise. I am breaking the mould and sharing a bit of
The horrors of supermarket slavery
I’m horrified, sickened and bewildered in equal measures about the modern slavery revelations and recent prosecutions in the Midlands. Apart from the appalling fact that this is going on here in the UK, it concerns me that so many of
Supermarkets – profit over service – EVERY time
Who would have thought when the first supermarkets opened their doors in the 1950s that they would be holding us to ransom a couple of generations later. Service has gone out the window for the sake of profits and we’re
Sugar tax … the Government’s feel good placebo?
Placebo (noun) a medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect. a measure designed merely to humour or placate someone. And that, to me, is exactly what the Government’s sugar tax
The plastic problem – lip service or honest intent?
It seems there isn’t a day goes by without plastic pollution being headline news. According to the Beeb, plastic has even become the children’s word of the year! That can only be good, but are we just swimming against the
Change please? YES please …
Innovation always warms my heart. And when I heard about Change Please, an innovation that’s combining change and social enterprise, I was positively aglow. You probably know how we feel about the plight of homeless people. We’ve blogged before about