It’s almost that time of the year again. Plastic Free July is just around the corner. Many environmental groups celebrate this month by giving up plastic. Take a moment and look around you. For every plastic item you have, be sure that there’s a plastic [...]
This isn’t the first time we’re writing about the dangers and issues related to plastic and how to get in habit of living plastic-free. In a short video, Jeff Bridges addresses this hot topic, asking: “when did we become a plastic society?” In this video [...]
Garbage stinks. Yet we produce so much of it. Imagine a different lifestyle - one where ‘waste’ doesn’t exist. Living Zero-Waste lifestyle means making some changes, and even some sacrifices. But it’s worth it: you contribute nothing to landfill (and believe me, the world doesn’t [...]
As promised, here’s a blog about how I traveled zero-waste by airplane. I am fully aware of my carbon impact when flying (especially internationally). But to get from Toronto to London – I really had no other choice. When possible, other modes of transport are [...]
When I began my new journey of living zero-waste, I started to get a lot of questions. Here are some of the ones that kept repeating, so I thought, why not share them with you? Where do I start? For a lot of people living [...]
The average American produces 4.39 pounds of trash per day. Statistics shows that this is enough to fill 63,000 trucks every day. During the holidays, it gets even worse – with an extra 5 million tons of waste produced. I think it’s important to visualize [...]
My zero-waste personal care routine has made me a lot more creative and curious about labels and ingredients. A lot of the times zero-waste means no packaging and since we live in a culture that likes to wrap and store everything in plastic bottles, this [...]