My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner

  These are my eight R’s to get you thinking about how best to approach going plastic free and low waste this New Year.  Every year I add a new ‘green’ eco resolution (a couple of years ago my resolution was to start this business!!), and this year is no different.  Here are a few that I’ve banked over the years, to help you on your way to becoming a low plastic, low waste household for the benefit of yourself, your family and Mother Earth.    REUSE Don’t buy a plastic shopping bag ever again; even the bags for life!...

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...

  Instead of Black Friday, Plastic Free Baby opted to give a % donation to the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT) as a part of our GREEN FRIDAY promotion. We decided to turn Black Friday into Green Friday, by supporting our customers to make more sustainable and ethical shopping choices during the festive shopping season. I am happy to say that the donation was accepted by the Fundraising and team at CHECT, who thanked Plastic Free Baby for the donation. About Childhood Eye Cancer Trust - a UK charity dedicated to helping people affected by retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer...

  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...

    Brrrrr, it’s chilly out there today!  I have just this morning been for a delightful but freezy walk in the Ashdown Forest with my lovely friend and our three little (and not so little!) babies. There’s definitely more than a feeling of Christmas in the air when it’s 3 degrees out there, and we’re all wrapped up in woolly hats and scarves. We got talking about plastic free handmade Christmas ideas that we are doing with our children, so I thought I’d put together some ideas, together with some suggestions from other mum friends too.   Make Your...