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Tips For A Zero-Waste Grocery Shopping Routine

Food is our fuel and a central part of our lives. Unfortunately though, food consumption generates a jaw dropping amount of waste, and if you’re serious about living a zero-waste lifestyle, targeting your grocery shopping routine is a great place to start.

July 02, 2021
6 min read

Managing a Zero-Waste Bathroom: Where to Start and How to Make it Last

For being one of the smaller rooms in the home, the bathroom creates a serious amount of waste. The wastes we create from within our bathrooms are various. We waste water, packaging, chemicals, and energy. Plastic packaging from cosmetics and toiletry products are commonly found as plastic pollution in the ocean and environment.

June 18, 2021
4 min read
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Quick Question: How Ethical is Shopping Secondhand?

At first, it may seem straightforward: you decide to stop buying fast fashion and support sustainable brands instead. Then it gets a little more complicated: you realize some of your favorite brands are participating in greenwashing by exaggerating their support of people and the environment and doing little to create real, tangible change. You then travel down a rabbit hole where you discover that other sustainable brands, even if they aren’t greenwashing, are still using resource-intensive materials, haven’t eliminated plastic from their packaging, or aren’t as transparent as they need to be.

June 14, 2021
6 min read

Environmental Impact of Pet Food

In the past few years, one of the most important conversations in the sustainability community has revolved around meat and its impact on the environment. The demand for meat has never been so high, due to the growing population and increasing quality of life worldwide. But this growing demand is not isolated to humans alone - our pets are also demanding more.

June 11, 2021
5 min read

Zero-Waste Picnicking

As spring and summer arrive each year, the drive to get outside and enjoy the outdoors increases exponentially. Picnicking, whether on your own or with friends and family, tends to also go hand-in-hand with warmer weather and can be a great opportunity to reconnect with the environment. However, this timeless activity can, without planning, produce a significant volume of needless waste. From single-serving dishes packaged in plastic to single-use plastic bottles, cutlery, and more, a simple picnic can quickly result in a pile of avoidable waste.

June 04, 2021
4 min read

Know The Chemicals You Wash With

We all use soaps, shampoos, and conditioners on a regular basis, yet we rarely stop to think about what they contain.Then, once we do actually read the label we don’t quite know what to make of the strange ingredients.

What are parabens? What are sulfates? What are phthalates? What are artificial fragrances? If you’re looking to protect your health, as well as reducing your environmental impact, this is certainly something you should be considering.

May 31, 2021
5 min read

How To Create A Zero-Waste Kitchen: Benefits, Tips, and Helpful Products

Zero-waste kitchens are not only clutter-free and functional, but they support lifestyles that reduce environmental harm. Transforming your kitchen into a zero-waste space may seem daunting, especially if you are the type that wants to change your entire kitchen and routines overnight. While that may be possible for some, for most it is a step-by-step journey that involves longer periods of planning and implementing. Both approaches are effective, and are sure to teach you a great deal about yourself, your habits, and your home!

May 28, 2021
5 min read

The Benefits of Zero-Waste Dental Floss

Flossing our teeth is an activity that most of us probably do not spend much time considering (except for maybe after visiting the dentist). While very important for oral hygiene, flossing is quietly having a growing detrimental impact on the environment. Yes, you read that correctly.

May 21, 2021
4 min read

The Importance and Benefits of Practicing Zero-Waste Living

Zero-waste living has become a popular environmental aspiration. Many approaches to zero-waste living exist, and individuals are turning to them for various reasons; individuals from diverse backgrounds, inspirations, motivators, household sizes, and ages.

May 14, 2021
6 min read
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Mouthwash Tablets - What You Need To Know

Our bathrooms are host to countless grooming and hygiene products, mostly made from plastic or coming packaged in plastic containers. If these plastic-based and plastic packaged consumables weren’t bad enough, most are never be separated from other rubbish and fail to end up in a recycling bin. So, where to begin? Well, have you considered replacing your old mouthwash with dissolvable mouthwash tablets? This relatively new eco-friendly product is rapidly gaining in popularity as consumers quickly come to appreciate its benefits as well as ease of use.

May 07, 2021
4 min read

Stepping Into Sustainability

As soon as I started working on Friends & Anemones: Ocean Poems for Children to raise awareness about the delicate state of the ocean and keeping it clean, Heather, my co-editor, told me to watch a movie about how trash-filled the seas are. It was horrifying. So I looked for a non-profit, some kind of ocean clean-up organization, to donate a share of the proceeds to. I found Rozalia Project, and immediately felt better.

May 03, 2021
4 min read

Why Choose A Safety Razor

The safety razor, also known as the double-edged safety razor, is a great example of a product that was arguable perfect before plastics were introduced. The last fifty years have brought us advancement after advancement with our razors, from more and more blades, different materials, exciting and strange colors, and much more. But, as we take a closer look at the razor, a mainstay of many grooming routines, we find that the eco-friendly safety razor may have had it right all along.

April 30, 2021
5 min read

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