Billions of plastic straws are used once and thrown away every day, enough to fill 1000 school buses every 24 hours! Heal our World helps anyone make a difference by coordinating …
3 free and easy ways to stop using so much plastic
Refil your bottle – cost £0 Your single use plastic water bottle can generally be refilled at least 10 times. If you want something sturdier on a budget I like …
Stop food waste beautifully and organically with BeeBee Wraps
One of the most popular posts on less-stuff is the tutorial for reusable wax food wraps. They are brilliant alternatives to cling film and super fast to make. My wax …
It is cheaper to cook chickpeas from scratch than buy tinned
Cooking organic chickpeas from scratch costs less per 100g than buying non organic chickpeas in a tin, unless they are on special offer, in which case you save a …
Eco To Go Reusable Rice Husk Coffee Cup Review
I’ve been on the lookout for a re-usable coffee cup for a while now. I work from home so I try to get out of the house for a walk …
Mend something for Earth Day on the 22nd April
Scroll down to enter a competition to win a Home Hacks Kit from Sugru! Before you throw it away…. Visible mending can be really beautiful and there is a whole …
Natural salt deodorant balls. zero waste and plastic free
Guest post by Lindsay Coldrick of NRG Healing What is in your deodorant? Many people are still unaware of the hidden dangers in the active ingredients of modern day deodorant. …
The happiest tote bags are made from bouncy castles
When I was little, my favourite stories were about objects that had a life of their own. The idea that our possessions are infused with their own history is one …
Local meat is better from the butcher than the supermarket #wheresmyfoodfrom
Warning – this post contains pictures of meat. I eat meat. Not often, but sometimes and this post is about sourcing meat that is local to where I live and …
Help! I got a veg box now I don’t know what to do with it! #wheresmyfoodfrom
As part of the Happerley challenge to know where my food is from, I got a veg box delivered. I want to see if we eat it all and …
Roadtesting glugglug Reusable Silicone Straws
glugglugplanet sent me 2 packets of reusable silicone drinking straws to review. I shared them with my friend Jo and her son and we set about thoroughly road testing them. …
Happerly 7 Day Know Your Food Origins Challenge
With the synchronicity of the internet that only the algorithms of social media can evoke, we were just talking about shopping locally in the Less-stuff Facebook group when this 7 …
Zero waste Valentines without the clutter or crap
Valentines day is getting out of hand. From light up plastic roses to teddy bears with heart shaped balloons. Do you really need or want any of that? Do you …
Adventures with Family Cloth (washable loo roll)
‘Family Cloth’ is a rather twee way of saying ‘washable rags you wipe your bum with’. Bumbaclot is a Jamaican insult but it describes these bum cloths perfectly. Warning – …
Stop food waste with a menu planning chalkboard (tutorial)
This summer I spent a lot of time scraping off chip paper, replacing it with smooth paper and creating an office space I want to work in. On my office …
Unusual Zero Waste Present Ideas
It is not easy to find presents for people sometimes, especially people like me who don’t want clutter! I’ve compiled a list of gifts that are zero waste or will …
Why I’m going zero waste this Christmas
Christmas is a time of giving but I don’t want to give burdens. I especially don’t want to burden the planet up with more stuff that goes to landfill. So …
How boycotting a brand can make life easier
Cutting down the amount of choice you have when you go shopping can make life much easier. This is not a judgmental or campaigning post, it is about choices and …
Random acts of zero waste kindness
I’ve been feeling a bit flat recently. I’m working hard and getting nowhere, and the car is about to snuff it. I was unrealistically hoping my most recent book would …
Zero Waste Week 2017 – budget ways to be zero waste
At the end of just 5 days of Zero Waste Week I have 2 bags of rubbish. One is a plastic bag full of wet newspaper from the cats litter …
Zero Waste Week 17 Day 5 – Making useful stuff out of the useless
In a nutshell – it is Zero Waste Week 2017 and I’m trying out ways of extending the life of old things. This week I turned a useless duvet into …
Zero Waste Week 17 Day 4 – wins and fails
A demoralising amount of plastic Sods law dictated that this week, Zero Waste Week, would be that week that things run out. So I’m left with loads of plastic bags …
How to make cosy slippers from an old wool jumper
This was originally an extra large lambswool jumper that got into the washing machine by accident. I’m not sad about it, it originally came from a second hand market stall …
5 Easy Zero Waste Life Hacks
This quick list has some ideas for making zero waste part of life. There are all easy, minor hassle options that can save you money too. Save stale bread I …
Zero Waste Week 17 Day 3 – Bloody cat food pouches
This attempt at upcycling has put me into a VILE mood. I’ve got 2 cats. I was going to rescue just the one cat but when we went to pick …
5 ways to stop waste paper getting into your house
1) Stop the junk mail. Other than put a sign on your door there are a few strategies you can take to stop the junk mail at source. If you …
Zero Waste Week 17 Day 2 – Not so #TrashfreeTuesday
I started off Tuesday thinking that trashfree wouldn’t be too difficult. I had no plans to leave the house other than to get some bread. Our local bakery uses brown …
Herby Oven Croutons Recipe to use up Stale Bread
This recipe uses up any sort of savoury stale bread and makes leftover soup into something special. Ingredients Stale bread. Any of the following: garlic, herbs, salt, pepper, parmesan and/or …
Zero Waste Week 17 Day 1 – sneaky trash and a fly tip result
Day 1 of Zero Waste Week 17 was supposed to start with me giving blood, which is very wasteful in terms of packaging but I’ve had a bad cold so …
What is in my bin before Zero Waste Week?
In a nutshell – the week before I’m attempting Zero Waste Week I look in my bin and recycling to see what I can improve on. There is a great …
Getting Ready for Zero Waste Week 2017
In a nutshell – Zero Waste Week is a campaign to draw attention to the fact that waste doesn’t just disappear. I did it with my son 5 years ago …
How to make vegetable drawstring tea towel bags – Guest post by Vicky Myers
Vicky Myers makes beautiful things by reusing materials. She does her bit towards saving the planet with ‘sustainable style’ and says that sewing, DIY and knitting help her maintain her …
Plastic Free July Week 4 – What is in the bin? #pfjuk
Week 4 of Plastic Free July at last. I love a challenge, especially one that fits neatly into a week or a month but this has been hard. It started …
Plastic Free July Week 3 – What is in the bin? #pfjuk
I’m disappointed in myself this week. Week 1 was great, with the discovery of vinegar the wonder fluid. Week 2 was about starting to use plastic free options and I …
Plastic Free July Week 2 – What is in the bin? #pfjuk
Week 2 of Plastic Free July Is it only 2 weeks? It feels like a lifetime of battling to be plastic free already! This week the bag for landfill is …
Bicarb the wonder salt – Plastic Free July Day 13 #pfjuk
Bob Roland: Message from the front, sir. Rufus T. Firefly: Oh, I’m sick of messages from the front. Don’t we ever get a message from the side? – What is …
Citric acid works better than kettle descaler – Plastic Free July Day 12 #pfjuk
This week in Plastic Free July I swapped my sachets of descaler for citric acid, which works better and comes in a cardboard box. If this was a site without …
Plastic Free July Week 1 – What is in the bin? #pfjuk
The first week of Plastic Free July was for me to look at what plastic we use at the moment. I made a few changes as they came up but …
White vinegar is better than toilet cleaner – Plastic Free July #pfjuk
In a nutshell – it is day 8 of plastic free July. On day 4 I ran out of toilet duck so I tried to find a plastic free alternative. …
5 Things you need to buy to reduce your family’s plastic consumption #pfjuk
Plastic Free July Themed guest post by Arabella from Exeter Baby Activities. Arabella writes about crafts with kids, cooking, growing and other eco-friendly things that are useful to people outside …
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