My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner

As World Environment Day comes back around, it’s important to remember why going plastic free in your household is so important for you and your baby, as well as for the environment.  Cutting out plastics is not just a choice for the environment, it is a choice to support the health of your baby. Phthalates and BPA are endocrine disrupting chemicals found in most plastics; these particular plastics can have very negative effects on you and your developing baby. Exposure to chemicals in our environment begins even BEFORE birth. Studies have shown that some chemicals, like PFAS and flame retardants found in everyday products, can pass...

  I raise my own little plastic-free family on a budget. On a small, single-parent income family budget! So I got to thinking that I could probably suggest some good ways to make plastic-free living a reality without breaking the bank, which could be of use to you and your family. I have to constantly balance my ethics with my bank balance, so I have a couple of tips that I hope will help you to reduce your plastics footprint, without being unaffordable and unreachable. I want to avoid as many types and varieties of plastics as possible, because we can't...

Here's the lovely team of University of Brighton students, who give me a much needed helping hand with marketing for Plastic Free Baby. They are an industrious and hard-working group, and are full of ideas for ways to engage with my existing customers and customers to be. They have been working really hard on the front end social media campaigning since the beginning of their academic year in 2020, as well as developing a plan for the strategic development of my marketing campaigning. They have been instrumental in devising a new Plastic Free Baby aesthetic, which is properly launching this week...

It's that time of the year when we have a couple of Bank Holiday Mondays in quick succession, so as parents we are looking around for ideas to entertain our little ones, without having to grab for the nearest plastic toys if at all possible! As a single parent to a 3 year old boy, I find that filling three days just the two of us (and the dog!) can be quite a tall order, particularly with the current social restrictions in place, so I always find that writing a little list of "could do" things for the long weekend...

  Plastics can have a long-term effect on your baby’s health, so cutting down on plastics, particularly those that come into contact with you and your baby, is essential. It's a real bonus that making healthy choices for your baby so often equates also to making a healthy choice for Planet Earth. As Earth Day, on the 22nd of April, approaches, now is the perfect time to make changes to your everyday life to keep both your baby and the planet happy. Children of all ages can begin to learn about the plastic in the world and its effects on our environment so...