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Zero Waste Living Tips for your 2020

1/ Take your own cup to any party you get invited to, this will eliminate the possibility of a single use plastic cup being needed for your beverage šŸø 2/ Save the rubber bands off your fruit n veg bundles, your mail etc. incredibly handy 3/ Walk and or Ride your Bicycle šŸš² Seriously, youā€™ll save HUGE $$ and youā€™ll get fit and youā€™ll save the planet šŸŒŽ Thatā€™s a Win Win Win! 4/ Embrace a packed Lunch šŸ“ from home to take to work - once again, SAVE $$, Eliminate Plastic and eat better food šŸ„˜ Leftovers are KING šŸ‘‘ 5/ Use a cake scraper to get every bit of food out of the pot šŸ„„ you...

Christmas 2019.. The Year of Homemade šŸŽšŸŽ„

Is anyone else questioning where 2019 has gone? Itā€™s like while we were all asleep one night, some took our year and hit the ā€œfast forward ā€œ button šŸ˜‚ This year we are focusing on Zero or Low Waste, mostly homemade gifts. I have a list of family/friends/work colleagues that I would like to give something to and now Iā€™m working out my plan of attack so to speak. For those who I do not have a suitable homemade idea for, I will be Op Shopping or scouring the local Saturday markets for what I seek. Below are the simple homemade ideas that will be on high rotation in my gift giving...

Once upon a Zero Waste Valentines…

  Valentines Day - Like it, Hate it, or indifferent towards it, it comes every year. My love & I like to celebrate it as another excuse to be mushy with each other,(insert vomit noises from our kids here haha.) Thought Iā€™d share a few Zero Waste Date Ideas & a few Zero Waste Gift Ideas for you all, in case you want to be mushy like us ļø Zero Waste Date Ideas: Star Gazing...

Zero Waste Christmas

  Today I read a horrifying statistic: In Australia we spend approx $11 Billion a year on Christmas with $4 Billion worth of the stuff being returned in the week following and another $4 Billion worth being thrown into Landfill.Ā Ā The average return is worth at least $68Ā  Now, I donā€™t know about you however I cannot fathom spending that much moneyĀ Ā on stuff, let alone the fact that half of them are either returned or thrown outĀ    Here are my Top 8 Zero Waste Christmas Tips :   1/ EXPERIENCE OVER STUFF...

Zero Waste Travel – Part 2

Recently we traveled to Sydney, NSW AustraliaĀ  Itā€™s a just over 1,000kmā€™s away & Air Travel is the fastest & most time affective way to get there & back in the space of 4 days. Now - I know Iā€™m most likely going to cop flack about being a ā€œ Zero Waste Hypocriteā€ or some such crap & thatā€™s ok by me, it is my life & my choices. Letā€™s just consider that settled ok? HeheĀ  Hereā€™s how I see it - The Plane will travel to Sydney whether Iā€™m on it or not, because, letā€™s face it, in the present mindset of our world, Air Travel is here to stay. With this, I present my ā€œZero Waste Travel...