The Plant Food Company

22/05/2026

The “widely recyclable” plastic Starbucks cups you toss into in-store recycling bins aren’t going where you think they are.

Beyond Plastics said in a report that it tracked 36 Starbucks single-use polypropylene cups by attaching Bluetooth-enabled location trackers to them and putting them in a recycling bin. Not a single one ended up at a recycling facility, the group said. Twenty-five were tracked to landfills or incinerators, and eight more were on their way to one of those. Three others last appeared at a sorting facility. Starbucks criticized the methodology, claiming the use of trackers “can introduce contamination” that causes materials to be rerouted. The only thing the two sides can agree on is that someone’s talking a load of rubbish.

A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.

07/05/2026

This is alarming. I don't buy 100% organic - often for cost reasons. At a minimum all 'conventionally' grow fruit and veg (although how spraying food with chemicals and poisons became conventional is by itself a statement on the state of affairs) should be required to label that the food may be contain traces of : etc etc

Study finds 84 per cent of pesticides used in Australian agriculture are banned overseas.

27/04/2026

No mitochondria - no you!

11/04/2026

What amazing photos and very grounding with all the deeply disturbing news from the Middle East. I bet the astronauts are just grateful to be home on Earth.

09/04/2026

Beautiful. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CZQJdqRQS/

05/04/2026

AFSA's opinion poll results are in and the majority of Australians agree: dogs and cats in research deserve to be rehomed after their use!

Any why not?! These animals have so much love to give, and want nothing more than a family of their own. For many, even just a comfy bed is a privilege they have only ever dreamed of.

Right now, NSW is the only place in Australia where legislation exists around the rehoming of research dogs and cats. Tragically, some dogs and cats in Australian research never leave the laboratory—they live and die there—even if young and otherwise healthy.

It shouldn't be this way. Support our 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 campaign, asking for mandatory rehoming of research dogs and cats 👉 https://animalfreescienceadvocacy.org.au/right2release/