This page is an attempt to share tips, successes, and failures as my family and I pursue a less waste lifestyle.
Practice #6: Less Waste in the Shower Next time you step into your shower, take a look at the plastic containers surrounding you. Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face soap, shaving cream… (This goes for you too, men!) It really is incredible how many bath products we accumulate. I am the first to admit that hygiene …
Practice #5: Less Waste in the sink Switching gears for a minute from buying food to cleaning up from the food. How many of you still use those Scotch kitchen sponges? I know I sure did for a while, even after I was switching up my lifestyle. I just couldn’t give them up. Until I …
Practice #4: Bring your own containers, reusable produce bags Now that I have told you to make the less waste choice in the produce section, how are you going to transport those green beans or brussel sprouts from the bin to the checkout to your house? That’s where reusable produce bags come into play. The …
Practice #3: Less waste choices at the grocery Let’s play a game. In each of these frames, one of the choices is the less waste choice. Can you pick them? I took all these pictures in the produce department of one grocery store. I could have taken about a hundred more. There are many opportunities …
Tip of the day: Don’t be a bum… Use recycled paper toilet paper!
As with many of these practices I will be posting on here, you might balk at this to begin with but hear me out. This is an easier transition than you might think. All I did was cut up Andrew’s old white undershirts along with an old baby blanket from the hospital into paper towel …
Practice #1 Cloth napkins. Use them. Always. This is not a hyperbole. Always. Not just when guests come over. But always. Put your paper napkins in a place where you can’t get to them easily or donate them to a classroom or church. Going on a picnic? Cloth napkins. Breakfast? Cloth napkins. Lunch at work? Pack …
My first failure happened before I even started. As a special Ed teacher, your life is data. Maybe that’s why I have such an aversion to it in my real life. Or maybe I’m just impulsive and I wanted to save the world from my trash immediately but whatever the reason, I have always regretted …