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Find out about what we've been up to, useful tips and info on how eating quinoa as part of a healthy diet helps prevent diabetes.

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Quinola’s Packaging Goes Plastic Neutral

Quinola’s Packaging Goes Plastic Neutral

Plastic is the current bad boy of the environment, and yet for all ready to eat solutions it is by far the most carbon-friendly packaging available. The alternatives are glass containers or metal cans both of which use up significantly more energy to make, to transport empty and add significant weight to the finished product contributing to the carbon footprint of transporting the finished goods. Our ready to eat solutions are also very efficient in the energy used to cook them. Think of it like this – 4000 pouches being cooked perfectly in one batch as opposed to 4000 individual...

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The Pur Projet: How we Offset our Maritime Carbon Emissions

The Pur Projet: How we Offset our Maritime Carbon Emissions

At Quinola, the environment is at the heart of everything we do. To offset the carbon footprint of the maritime transport of all quinoa from Peru to Europe, we have teamed up with the Pur projet. We offset every gram of CO2 emitted by the transport of quinoa from Lima, Peru to le Havre in France. Our grains are then packed by a facility who employs over 20 people with learning difficulties. Maritime transport is a very carbon-efficient way of transporting goods in the first place. With a ton of quinoa transported 1 kilometre by boat having less than 10%...

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The Planet Doesn’t Need Saving. Fact.

The Planet Doesn’t Need Saving. Fact.

This might come as a bit of a surprise. But hey, our planet has been around for several billions of years. A scattering of human beings on its surface is not going to make the slightest difference. If our planet can survive meteor showers, it can survive 10 billion humans. It is pretty clear that the planet doesn’t need our help, and that earth has seen, and will see, many iterations of life be created and be destroyed. However, I still passionately believe that we are living in a climate emergency. An emergency that will drastically change the world, the...

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Protecting Waste Workers During COVID

Protecting Waste Workers During COVID

Across the world, cities produce over 2bn tonnes of waste each year. Even before the covid-19 pandemic swept the world, local governments in poor countries often struggled to keep their streets clean. Informal waste workers make up around 80% of the 19m-24m workers in the waste industry and have helped to fill that gap. They collect rubbish, scavenge dumps and public spaces for things which can be re-used or sold. Normally selling through middlemen to recycling companies. Each year in India waste-workers help divert over 40m tonnes of refuse away from landfills and into recycling. Collaboration with RePurpose Global Like...

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