How to: Knitted Dish Scourer
Lately we’ve been using a knitted dish scourer I made myself. Most supermarket dish scourers are made from plastic so I will not buy those any more. Some compostable hemp or coconut fibre versions are available from specialty stores. We…
Low Waste Vegetable Gardening
Recently I posted about reusing empty toilet rolls as seed raising pots. It got me thinking about low waste vegetable gardening and other ways to REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, ROT and RECYCLE when growing veggies. Along with the environmental benefits of…
10 Uses for the Humble Toilet Roll
Toilet paper has been in the news a lot lately. Who woulda thunk it?! Yep, it is clearly something most of us can’t imagine living without. Apparently it is the first thing we grab to stockpile in a crisis. But…
Our Project Focus for 2020
It is already March and I haven’t shared my areas of focus for our family footprint project in 2020. Let me do something about that! Looking back at 2019 Last year my major focus was minimising our waste to landfill…
Keeping Dog Waste Out of Landfill
What do you do with your dog waste? I’m posting a quick post today with a little update about our goal of eliminating organic waste from our landfill bin. The one organic that has, until now, continued to go into…
Lower Impact Cleaning
Do you want to ditch the chemical cleaners and plastic bottles and move to lower impact cleaning for your home? I certainly do and we are largely there. In this post I want to share some of the tips and…
10 Things to Make from Scratch
Over the years I’ve begun to make from scratch a number of things we used to buy ready made. With our greater focus on reducing waste and our carbon footprint, I’ve added more things to my repertoire in the last…
Minimising Waste to Landfill
My major focus for 2019 was minimising waste to landfill from our household. Before moving on to new goals for 2020, I thought I’d recap our progress on this front and outline the steps we have taken. Emptying the Rubbish…
A More Sustainable Back to School
Too soon to be talking about back to school? Maybe. At the time of writing this, school has not yet officially finished for the year. We’re all still looking forward to the long summer break, free from the early morning…
Lower Waste School Stationery
It is school stationery list time and, if you are becoming a more conscious consumer, you are probably looking for lower waste school stationery options. The school stationery list has been a thorn in my side ever since my children…
