Plastic-Free Living

If every American family wrapped just 3 presents in reused materials, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields...small steps DO matter! Here are some tips and tricks on decorating sustainably (and cheaply) this holiday season....

The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes the joy of giving, sharing, and celebrating. However, it's also a time when our carbon footprint tends to grow substantially. From the excess food waste to the mountains of discarded wrapping paper, the Holidays can be quite wasteful. But...

Plastic Free July presents a timely reminder for us to rethink our plastic consumption habits and embrace sustainable alternatives.

What if I told you soap is just soap and you can use soap to clean anything? That all these separate cleaning products can be replaced with one all natural, sustainable, vegan alternative? Let me reintroduce you to Castile soap.....

Over nine million tons of the stuff was manufactured in 2019. But the worst part - it’s all single use...

The US is # 1 when it comes to generating plastic waste and the third contributor to ocean plastic waste. We have to do better. So let’s start with something simple. Washing dishes....

This isn’t about drastic lifestyle change; it’s about being smarter about the single-use plastics that are offered to you everyday and taking steps to reduce them....

Ingredients aside, one of the biggest ways the beauty industry harms the environment is through its hard to recycle plastic packaging. Oftentimes, made from mixed plastics, these containers are not recyclable and find their way into landfills or waterways. "In 2018, in the U.S. alone, almost 7.9 billion units of rigid plastic were created just for beauty and personal care products. And the problem is set to get worse." -Plastic Pollution Coalition.