For a couple weeks the builder and myself were on our own. No housemates. Just us. While our previous house mate knew about our progression into a plastic free life we never pressured on them to adapt to our ways. So when we were on our own, looking for a new housemate, I discovered our household bin was filling up with nothing but …

This quote is from an inspiring talk given by Tom Szaky CEO of TerraCycle. If you feel equally inspired, right click and save the wallpaper to your desktop for use as a wallpaper or print it out for your home. Trying to live waste free can be tough and I find reminders handy.

On Clean Up Australia Day 2014 more than 15,000 tones of rubbish are estimated to have been removed from 7,140 sites around Australia. This year each site was given a bag solely for cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are one of the biggest problems in Australia. For the first time this year these harmful and toxic items were bei…

Making the change to a greener and conscious way of living has been one of the best decisions of my life. But it's not easy. Altering any part of your life is hard for different reasons. What keeps me going is knowing the good that comes from living a more sustainable and considered life. Using less plastic and living by zero-was…

This time last year, a story about jeans being fashioned out of recycled plastic would not have excited me as it does today. I would have glazed over the information feeling warm inside that the clothing was recycled and I would have moved on. Now I read the stories of innovation in the name of saving our environment and you will find…

Photo by Death to Stock Photos Valentines is tomorrow. I had penned a post about sustainable gifts to give loved ones. But something did not feel right. It felt limited. If anything the world needs less stuff and more love.  On Valentines day, I make an effort to smile bigger smiles, give random people a compliment, organise a …

When my bank began offering my statements in electronic format, I hit the yes button immediately and have since received no statements except during tax time. Electronic delivery is so much easier and saves me having to file and put away those forms. Plus less trees are cut down. It is a win. Since going electronic I rarely receive …

Images from zazzle.com.au I love plastic. There, I said it. It’s on your screen. This gal loves plastic. Let’s break this down before you question why a person that blogs about ways to avoid plastic is writing something that appears to go against the ethos of this blog and will be saved in a digital database somewhere, never to …

Hello! Happy New Year plastic-free crusaders. I came up with this fun idea on how to reuse shower caps, while I was packing for our road trip to Jervis Bay over the holiday season. I have been wearing a shower cap since I was a little girl. They are usually the cheap pharmacy or supermarket variety. And after a while, the …

I first made pesto when I was living on my own at University. On my kitchen windowsill sat three happy herb plants; parsley, mint and basil. The basil plant always did a little too well. I would come back from class or work, and it felt like the plant had grown another 5cm. I was constantly adding basil to dishes so none of the herb…

When I was young one of my favorite game was dress ups. My mum kept a lot of her clothes from the late 70s and early 80s. They sat in large garbage bags in her closet. A treasure trove for the imaginative kids that we were. My siblings and the neighborhood kids would regularly ransack the pile, making a mess as we put together worlds…

In the last six months I have dug my heels in, striving towards a sustainable life. It has become a passion, learning to wean out the disposable plastic from my life, buying in bulk, wasting less and just trying to be plain ol’ kinder to the earth that I get to walk on each day. Articles and books about plastic and waste are devoured…

I am going to start this post with a little anecdote to show how I didn't think far enough ahead when it came to travelling in Myanmar without using any single use plastic. I had planned to not buy any plastic water bottles on the trip . My reusable drinks bottles were ready, sitting next to my beat up backpack. The day I was du…

‘How was Burma?” ‘You mean Myanmar.’ ‘Yeah that’s what I meant, Myanmar.’ ‘It was fabulous.’ ‘Where is it again?’ This has been the casual exchange since I have returned from my jaunt to Myanmar (or to be technical the Republic of the Union of Myanmar). I can understand why people ask where it is. Myanmar has not been included …

I grew up in a country town and one of the big social events was the local races. It was never about the horses. It was about an excuse to dress up and put on a fancy hat. The months of October and November is the Spring Racing Carnival in Melbourne. The Builder and I were fortunate to receive tickets for Stakes Day. Due to the las…