My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner — plastic free

  I'M DREAMING OF A PLASTIC FREE CHRISTMAS... just like the ones our foremothers and forefathers use to know...! Check out the Plastic Free Baby Christmas Gift Guide here! With Halloween and fireworks night done and dusted, it’s definitely time to start planning forward for Christmas I’d say! It’s less than 50 days away now.  I’m putting a lot of effort this year into thinking of ways to have a sustainable and frugal plastic free christmas, and I’ll be posting a blog or two about this over the coming days before Christmas (at point of writing, 48 days, 14 hours, 55...

  I hadn’t heard about Zero Waste Week until this year… it’s been going for a few years now, and I’m really happy to be jumping on that very important band wagon!  As they say on their website,  “The term ‘Zero waste’ is an inaccurate Neologism that in most cases expresses an unrealistic ideal. However, the concept of Zero Waste is ethically and morally driven through a shared understanding among subscribers for the need to reduce waste as far as possible to Zero in order to maintain environmental sustainability.” … Couldn’t have put it better myself, so I won’t even...

  Plastic Free Back To School ideas Just today my niece has gone off for her first day at secondary school. Our whole family are so proud of her. Going back to school after such a long period off school, and to go back to a completely new school, it’s quite a big deal - she’s taken it in her stride, and I’m sure she’s had a really brilliant first day back and first day of ‘big school’.  My niece, and in fact all of my lovely family, are always giving me lots of ideas about plastic free products for...

  Gulp! It’s upon us. Potty training! Gah! I’m in denial about this I think. I had hoped that one day Finn, now 2 and a half years old, would wake up and suddenly be able to control his ‘functions’ and I’d just pop on a pair of normal pants on him and that would be it.  Alas, when asked “have you done a poo poo” he still often says “no”. A few poos and pees on the kitchen floor later, and we are still at the beginning of our journey :-)  The great news is that he absolutely LOVES...

2019 is coming to an end and it’s time to welcome this exciting new year! Have you got plans for New Year’s Eve yet? Whatever these exciting celebration plans may be, it’s time to think about how they might affect the environment! These few tricks will make sure your party doesn’t become a celebration of single use plastic! So, let’s celebrate this closing year with style! Follow me! Venue and decorations: If you’re heading out to a venue or restaurant, make sure you choose a place that doesn’t rely on single use plastics and glossy banners (hint hint, try looking...