Plastic-Free Living

As we welcome 2022, take a second gaze over your New Year’s Resolution and ask yourself, “Will I be doing this for a year? More than a year?” Make sustainable goals that will work for you and congratulate yourself on the small daily successes. 

4.6 billion pounds of wrapping paper are produced each year in the U.S. alone, and about HALF is thrown into landfills. What a nightmare for our planet year after year, but we can help with these low-waste holiday gift wrapping ideas...

With the holidays nearing and sustainable gifting an option, why not consider shopping small this season? Shopping small means supporting local businesses over corporations – that means investing in your community and making a positive, social (heck, maybe even environmental!) impact.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), composting diverted approximately 24.9 million tons of waste from landfills in 2018, significantly reducing methane emissions and contributing to soil health improvements across the United States.

The truth behind plastic and compostable straws, and ways to participate in No Straw November...

There has been a recent debate about cotton bags or totes being more harmful to the planet than plastic bags...what?! 

It's Plastic-Free July! Let's be real here...going 100% plastic free isn't possible in the current modern world we live in. But there are many MANY products you can avoid that are packaged in plastic and we use on a daily basis so why not start there?!

"Your average thrift store in the United States only sells about one-third of the stuff that ends up on its shelves...The rest of the stuff ends up somewhere else..." When decluttering, the important thing is that we try to own only what we need and want in our lives then let go of the items we don’t with as little damage to our Mother Earth as possible.