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

SHOP SMALL. SHOP ECO. SHOP ETHICALLY. SHOP LOW WASTE. SHOP SUSTAINABLY.   Shop small. Plastic Free Baby is a small shop, hosting lots of independent brands dedicated to eco-friendly and plastic free family living. Small businesses, and those online particularly at the moment, provide a major economic impact to the country when we most need it. It’s so important to support small shops and businesses at this hard time where and when you possibly can. The customer service is often off-the-scale brilliant, and there’s a lovely sense of community created by them through neighbourhood links and social media communities. They...

  12th day of Christmas Each day I’ll be telling you about a special Plastic Free Gift Set available via www.plasticfree.baby  and a little statistic about why it’s so important to go plastic free this Christmas. Why go plastic free? Plastic is a big health concern. Vinyl is a plastic made of the same material as PVC, with phthalates added to make it soft. It can be found in crib mattress covers, shower curtains, bibs, and other waterproof items. Health concerns: From production to use to disposal, vinyl releases chemicals that have been linked to cancer, birth defects and other...

  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...