Low Waste Advent Calendar Ideas
I’ve gathered together some low waste Advent calendar ideas for you to share with your family this year. Counting down to Christmas is a popular family pastime but store-bought Advent calendars tend to be waste heavy. Making your own low-waste…
Refusing Plastic in July
Plastic Free July starts in just under a week. I’ve signed up to refusing plastic for the month. It is impossible for us to avoid ALL plastic as I discussed in a blog post around this time last year. However,…
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…
12 Single Use Plastic Items to Eliminate
If there is one thing that tops my waste elimination hit list, it is single use plastic. It is everywhere but a lot of these items have an easy, sustainable substitute. In this post I look at some common single…
Waste Reducing Principles
What are waste reducing principles? Well, they are the actions we can take to divert our household (or office or business or factory…) waste away from landfill. One of our family footprint goals for 2019 is to reduce as much…
