Keep your compost pail cleaner with an easy-to-make newspaper bin liner. It saves money and adds brown matter to a compost heap.
Zero-Waste Basics
Why We Resist Cooking, Guest Post by Brigitte Gemme
In this excerpt from her new book, Brigitte Gemme explains why we resist cooking and how to change our mindset to embrace this act of love.
Gifts, Wrapping, Trees and More: Curb Holiday Consumption Grinch Free
This holiday season, save money, decrease stress, and increase joy by choosing alternatives to the usual consumer trappings.
Some of the Stuff I Get Free
After recently picking up free mulch, I made a list of just some of the useful items I get for free regularly.
10 Quick and Tasty Zero-Waste Breakfast Ideas for Busy People
Breakfast offers the greatest potential to cook and eat without waste. You’ll probably be home, not on the go, and will eat on real dishes.
Easy Ways to Cut Frightful Halloween Waste, Keep the Fun
If you love Halloween but not all the waste that comes with it, you have options to celebrate sustainably without sacrificing any of the fun.
Bring Your Own Container Every Time You Dine Out
Don’t want to waste food you can’t finish in a restaurant or toss a to-go container at home? Go for option three: Bring your own container.
13 Painless Ways to Participate in Plastic Free July
This Plastic Free July, cut loads of single-use plastic from your life painlessly with these 13 simple strategies.
How to Repair Your Stuff so You Buy Less of It
Repairing our stuff when it breaks—rather than buying a replacement—reduces landfill, saves money and serves as a small act of rebellion.
14 Ways to Use Free Jars
Jars reduce food and packaging waste, make food look more appetizing, cost no extra cash if you reuse any jars you buy food in—and much more!
How to BYO Containers for Takeout or Groceries
Takeout orders increased 78 percent during Covid. Take BYO containers to businesses that accept them to make a dent in single-use waste.
How to Buy Less and Buy Better with the Less But Better Method
Quitting shopping cold turkey may not be realistic. So buy less but better! Excerpt from Tara McKenna’s new book, Don’t Be Trashy.
How to Compost Food Scraps With or Without a Yard
Ideally we would eat all the food we buy but wasted food happens. Wasted food and food scraps belong in a compost bin, indoors our out.
7 Low-Waste Gifts in Jars Your Recipients Will Love
Just about everything looks better in a jar, especially food. These gifts in jars look impressive but most require little hands-on work.
9 Easy Ways to Reduce Plastic at Thanksgiving
These nine simple swaps will help you minimize plastic waste this Thanksgiving while maximizing taste and even saving money!