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We are far from a perfect zero waste household and knowing this used to overwhelm me with guilt. But I’m really trying to cut myself some slack! Th...

  Our bedsheets were approaching 5 years old when they suffered a massive, irreparable tear, letting us know it was hig...

Congratulations, people of North America. Seventy percent of us brush our teeth twice a day. It seems that our dentists’ nagging has finally paid ...

Money may be the root of all evil, but it also makes our modern world go round. And while we’d like to vote with our dollars, the stock market is ...

The ever-increasing ease and affordability of online shopping has led to an astounding accumulation of stuff. With the click of a button, we’re ab...

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen our sustainability-minded community ask: “What does this global pandemic mean for the zero waste movement?” We...

Is it  hypocritical to promote the buying of new stuff on a zero waste blog? I hope not, because the following items were bought new (our could be...

You’ve rewatched The Office for the nth time and finished Tiger King… now what?  There’s a lot of great entertainment out there, but most of it is...

Anyone attempting a zero waste lifestyle knows the exasperation when a lunch date packages their leftovers in a Styrofoam clam shell and plastic b...

Surfing turned me into an environmentalist. Though I wasn’t exactly a tree-hater ten years ago when I lived in a landlocked city, I was generall...

With 2019 coming to an end and 2020 just around the corner, we’re reflecting on all our steps taken towards zero waste this past year and looking ...

Gifts - We all want them, we all get them, but what do we do with them? As we are socially obliged to buy holiday gifts for parents, siblings, cou...