Zero waste

Free, Simple Zero Waste switches to make your kitchen and home more sustainable. You don’t need to buy a whole bunch of stuff!

Is gift wrapping paper recyclable? Most of the plastic stuff we use today is bad for the environment. Here are sustainable alternatives.

Plastic Bag Bans Don’t Work In 2019, Connecticut implemented legislation to ban plastic bags. For the first two years, retailers were still allowed to provide plastic bags for a fee of 10 cents each. The plan seemed to work at first. I remember watching shoppers juggle wares in their arms and hold them in their …

Shampoo Bars: Good for Hair or Just a Gimmick? Two years ago, I worked on a sponsored post with a brand called EcoRoots. Though I was reviewing one of their safety razors, they sent along a couple shampoo and conditioner bars to try out. I didn’t touch them until I ran out of my normal …

Sustainable Last Minute Halloween Costume Last night, I attended a Halloween party. I had known about it for weeks, but had absolutely no time to come up with a costume until Thursday. I knew I wanted a sustainable Halloween costume: ideally nothing would be store-bought. It’s a wonder things came together. When it comes to …

Buying Groceries Online During a Pandemic When the pandemic began, Daniel and I hunkered down, almost completely. We didn’t even go grocery shopping outside the house for the first month of lockdown, instead relying on our very generous neighbor to shop for us. We’re an immune suppressed household, and Covid spread is still full of …

I was afraid to use a safety razor even though it’s a sustainable alternative to disposables. Turns out, there was nothing to fear!

When It’s Hard to Be Sustainable First, I reserved a U-Haul, that gas guzzling machine that would transport all my worldly possessions nine hours away from the place I’d lived for seven years. Then, we bought like seven days of take-out, all packaged in plastic or styrofoam (save Chipotle), since our cookware was packed and …

Some people don’t like wearing tampons or other insertable period products like menstrual cups but still want to make an impact when it comes to reducing waste. Learn about my experience with cloth pads and Thinx period panties in this unsponsored review, with FAQs!

Though individual activism and the zero waste movement can be useful tools, they tend to ignore the fact that individual choices can’t solve the problem of climate change if policies and corporations don’t get on board with our actions.