sustainable drink alternatives
Beverages are popular items in a goodie bag! However, soft drinks and more specifically the plastic bottles have a serious impact on the environment. Oceana study finds that as many as 34 billion plastic bottles produced by the soft drink industry enter the ocean each year. The plastic bottles can be switched by giving out glass bottles which are recycled at the event. When we look at the social sustainability part of these drinks we advocate to serve fair trade drinks -- these support local farmers and organizations around the globe and not the well known multinationals.
Fair trade drinks are easily found in the Oxfam store. Oxfam is a verified organisation that pursues equality in their products, by giving people in 3th world countries a fair and respectable price. Here you can find fair trade drinks from Cola to orange juice.
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Secondly, we advise to switch from giving out drinkable or edible products that contain milk to products which use dairy alternatives such as oat or almond milk. We advocate for this due to the high environmental impact of dairy production. During the production of dairy products extensive amounts of methane and carbon dioxide are released. These are both greenhouse gases. Oatly, a company that produces a bunch of dairy-free products, offer oat milk and different variations of oat milk, like chocolate and coffee drinks.
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When we look to alcoholic beverages we can also advocate to support beverages from fair trade organizations. We will again provide you with the link of Oxfam -- the link will bring you to fair trade beer. Juste is a vegan, pesticide and gmo free beer.
Click here to buy Price: 1.61 EUR per bottle |