Catch the latest tips and trends that help you reduce waste in your day-to-day life
As any clickbait article will tell you, Millennials are a generation defined by a delayed adulthood. We were raised on the idea that youth is God’s greatest gift. A lot of us turn 18 without knowing how to cook, do laundry, sew, or change our car’s oil unless we were lucky enough to have parents who …
In part 3 of my guest blog series, my friend Eric Hallam agreed to talk about his experience delving into the world of composting. He and his fiance are the whole reason I was able to stay zero waste while living in my St. Louis apartment last year, and now they’re helping me while I settle into …
Where have I been, you ask? Across America, and back, and across America again. I crunched my entire moving-to-Seattle process into the space of a month. On March 2nd, I quit my job and flew to Seattle to find a place to live. On the 9th, I flew back and started packing. On the 17th, I loaded …
I’m a Woman. Now that we’ve gotten rid of all the woman haters, let me continue. As a woman, I’m constantly bombarded by upfront and subliminal expectations that I should live like Cleopatra. That I should own balms, salves, shampoos, lotions, and perfumes. And whaddya know: all these products tend to come in plastic containers. …
Disclaimer: I know a lot of friends and family read this blog, and there’s a chance they’ll worry about me after reading this. If that’s you, please know that I’m okay and this blog post is just my way of telling people it’s okay to be imperfect. Sometimes, life gets in the way of being the best …
If you hate cooking as much as I do, meal planning is the sanest way to get through a zero waste week. By spending just one day chopping, mixing, boiling, baking, sweating, burning, panicking, and proportioning everything out in grab-and-go containers, you can spend the remaining 6 days cook-free. It’s basically like eating leftovers all the time! …
high maintenance customer anxiety – (n.) a feeling of terror felt by a customer caused by making too many requests or provisions during a customer-server interaction. Before starting zero waste, I avoided being a high maintenance customer at all costs. I’ve never worked in the food industry, but I know how horrible customers can be. My …
I was working on a zero waste project with my Mom the other day when she paused and said, “So you’re going to do this long term.” It wasn’t a question, more like voicing a realization. While my parents are always supportive, I’ve known that “can you really keep it up?” has been bouncing around the subtext …
As Black Friday approaches we turn our attention once again to that which binds us all together: love. Most importantly, showing that love with lots of festively wrapped and labeled gifts. Gift giving and receiving can get a bit awkward when you’re trying to be zero waste because: We’re trying to reduce our belongings to decrease …
During an exercise in privilege, a teacher asked us to step forward from a line if a certain sentence applied to us. Some were about race (“Take a step forward if skin toned bandaids match your skin tone.”), some were about socio-economic class (“Take a step forward for every car your family owned before you …