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Recycle Week 2020

Recycle Week 2020

Recycle Week 2020 The week starting 21 September is a big one for the United Kingdom as it marks the start of a week of determined effort to reduce, recycle and reuse during Recycle Week 2020. Here at UKVending we are determined to reduce the amount of throw away plastics and we’ve taken lots of […]
Hurricanes and the coffee bean

Hurricanes and the coffee bean

Here in the United Kingdom we have come to expect our summers to be hot if not sunny but spare a thought for the Caribbean, which has been devastated by some of the strongest and most deadly hurricanes as the hurricane season strikes the region once again. With all the stories of destruction of property […]
Great news for balding men…Green tea can help

Great news for balding men…Green tea can help

Men suffering with hair loss take note, tea is good for your hair, particularly green tea. Green tea has long been associated with several health-giving properties including weight loss now pioneering research has concluded that drinking green tea can also help with hair loss problems too. Green tea has a compound within its leaves called […]
UK Lockdown sees sales of bottled water tumble

UK Lockdown sees sales of bottled water tumble

The recent UK wider lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a dramatic change in how we buy and use water it seems. Last year the survey company YouGov asked 2,000 working adults whether they regularly bought plastic bottled water on the go. The result was well over half of the respondents did at 58%. […]
How chocolate could save your life!

How chocolate could save your life!

We all love a bit of chocolate now and again, don’t we? Well now you can justify your treat in the best possible way as researchers have determined a little of the sweet stuff could actually help save your life. No for real! Eating chocolate at least once a week could help prevent a heart […]
San Francisco Airport first to go plastic bottle free

San Francisco Airport first to go plastic bottle free

San Francisco International Airport in California is living up to a promise it made in 2014 that the airport will cease to sell water in plastic bottles as part of its environmentally friendly Zero Waste Plan. From August no restaurant, shop or airline lounge will be permitted to sell passengers or staff any plastic bottled […]
What to do with those spent coffee grounds?

What to do with those spent coffee grounds?

What does 3D printing, fabric production, mushroom growing, and some furniture items all have in common? Give up? Well the answer is coffee. Yes coffee, well more precisely used coffee grounds. It is well known that here in the United Kingdom we drink a lot of coffee and the wet grounds that usually get discarded […]
And you thought making a cup of tea was easy, right?

And you thought making a cup of tea was easy, right?

Hands up who thought that tea was a simple product to manufacture? Go on be honest, many of you thought that it was picked from the tea bush, packed and sold didn’t you? Well here at UKVending we looked into what exactly goes into making a nice cuppa. Tea has long been associated with a […]
Afternoon Tea Week

Afternoon Tea Week

Us Brits, we don’t really need an excuse to brew up a wonderful cup of tea do we? Any chance for a cuppa and we’re there ready to taste, but when we’re given an excuse such as this week being officially recognised as Afternoon Tea Week perhaps we should indulge in our national drink just […]

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