The last time you ordered drink at a restaurant, did it come with plastic straws? In recent years, concern has mounted over the increasing quantities of single-use plastic items that are becoming part of our everyday lives. One of these items is the plastic drinking straw, billions of which are given out in cafés and restaurants, […]
Single-use plastic has been in the news a lot lately—from plastic bag bans to the obscene amount of plastic ending up in our oceans and landfills. That’s why we should try our best to reduce plastic and save our planet. The Importance Of Reducing Plastic According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. consumes around […]
The fashion industry is now being counted as one of the world’s biggest polluters, right behind Big Oil, so making sure you dispose of old clothing properly is an important step toward mitigating its environmental effects. The Big Problem Americans discarded some 15.4 million metric tons (17 million U.S. tons) of textiles in 2018. Those […]
How many times have you eaten out at a restaurant and been handed a plastic-wrapped packet of plastic utensils? Or you brought your lunch to work but left your handy dandy metal utensils at home, so you’re forced use the plastic cutlery from your office’s drawers? Cutlery is a collective term used to describe the tools used […]
Whether you’re planning a cozy dinner, a breezy picnic, or even a large-scale community event, there are creative and resourceful things we can all use to avoid single-use plastics. Zero waste doesn’t mean zero fun—in fact, it’s a chance to exercise your creativity! The average person generates about 4.3 pounds of waste per day. Municipal […]
Because of Coronavirus, face mask have become a daily essential, but there looms an unintended side effect. The huge spike in the consumption of single-use disposable masks by the public is causing increased ocean pollution, adding to the already large amounts of single-use plastic and other waste that end up in the sea. 1. Pollution […]
Summer time is finally here, and with it comes music festivals, camping adventures, beach visits, road trips, and so much more. If you want to celebrate summer, reduce your waste and live seasonally, you’re in the right place. Here are 7 zero waste summer activities to do before the season ends! Venturing out into the […]
Going Zero Waste – Better For You, Better For Plannet
A growing category in beauty is “zero-waste”, which is where brands avoid contributing to landfill throughout the whole process of making a product, from sourcing the ingredients to formulation, manufacturing and shipping. Here’s 4 swap in the zero waste beauty world these days: Did you know that beauty brands produce about 77 billion units of […]
What Is Zero Waste Lunch? Before we dig into the how, let’s wrap our brains around a definition of what zero-waste lunch packing actually means. The idea with zero waste lunches is to reduce the waste generated when packing kids lunch boxes. Basically it’s stopping the use of one-time use plastics such as saran wrap, […]