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In brief: Cadbury eco egg, bottled water furore, and Ryan Frank's ZiG

Ryan Frank's ZiG bamboo shelving system
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Channels: Household News Tags: wind-up power, packaging, furniture, water

Today's the day to quit bottled water, win a wind-up radio by loving Yeo Valley, drool over Ryan Frank's ZiG design and scoff at foil-packaged Easter Eggs.

Bamboo furniture in Milan
One of our favourite eco furniture designers, Ryan Frank, has been commissioned by esteemed Milanese gallery Post Design to make a bamboo storage system, ZiG (above). We can't wait to see the real thing.

Green & Purple's
Cadbury's
latest green effort comes in form of an 'eco egg', the Cadbury Treasure Eggs, which is merely wrapped in foil rather than in a box. According to Cadbury's, this means a reduction of 75 per cent plastic and 65 per cent cardboard compared to its standard Easter eggs. What can we say? Remember to recycle the foil.

Bottled water revelation

Tonight's Panorama on BBC One explores what's behind the £2 billion bottled water industry, revealing that one litre of a certain popular French mineral water has a carbon footprint that's 600 times bigger than a litre of Thames tap water. We'll try and stick to the tap or the occasional bottle of Belu.

Win a wind-up
Yeo Valley is offering yoghurt- and ice cream-eaters the chance to win a Freeplay Devo DAB Wind-up Radio worth £80. All you have to do is to sign up to their newsletter and tell them why you love Yeo Valley, which sounds easy peasy to us. The five people with the best love declarations will win a radio.

Posted: 18 February 2008, 01:24pm by Rikke Bruntse-Dahl
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