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…