Is Easter a Rotten Egg for Sustainability?

However you celebrate at this time of year - Easter, Ostara or Spring Equinox - the amount of waste we produce in the UK is shocking. 

With 4000 tonnes of plastic waste (largely from Easter Eggs), 8 million uneaten hot cross buns and a further 8 million uneaten Easter Eggs (that's 10% of the 80 million bought in the UK annually), we are desperately in need of an environmental overhaul.

For those that celebrate, we have chosen to stock Gava Refillable Åggs (they're Swedish by origin) - metal Eggs that can be filled with your choice of gifts and reused year on year.
Not a fan of the chocolate excess? Pop a soap or some stationary in instead.

Our bug bear with Easter excess doesn't stop there - it's the frustration of seeing Easter stuff all over supermarkets as soon as the last mince pie has left the shelves.

Easter is actually my favourite celebration, despite not being affiliated to any religion.
Here's my campaign for Easter over Xmas:
- less pressure than Christmas
- brighter, longer days
- fewer things to buy
- doesn't take 2 whole months
- no snow (hopefully)

Happy Easter to you and yours; We will be doing Spring celebrations with a Med Veg tart and as little plastic waste as we can.
Openly accepting gifts of plants- indoors and out- if you were wondering.