Category: Zero Waste
All That Holiday Wrapping! (don’t rush to recycle)
When all the gifts have been opened in a flurry of excitement, one can find oneself surrounded by a sea of crumpled wrapping paper, ribbons, boxes, packaging materials, and a question: what to do with all that mess?! Some of what you will be able to do with it comes down [...]
Ways to Reduce Waste for Pet Lovers
Being a pet owner presents a variety of changing responsibilities, and pursuing a low-waste lifestyle can be difficult when owning a pet. Pets require not only love and attention, but they need a series of care items. Food, collars, leashes for walks, beds for leisure, toys for fun, and treats for training or [...]
The Most Eco-Friendly Furniture You Will Ever Find
Reused furniture is the most eco-friendly furniture you will ever find. Here’s why. It takes a lot of energy to make new products from raw materials. Large amount of fossil fuels are needed to extract the raw materials and to manufacture, pack and ship the products. In addition, all these processes generate waste [...]
Earth Day 2020
Don’t Miss Earth Day 2020! Toward Zero Waste had lots of plans for the month of April; it’s always a busy and exciting month for environmentalists! But with the Covid-19 crisis, those plans of documentary viewings, talks, classes and festivals have been altered. While some were cancelled, others were made virtual. We wanted [...]
Carbon Offsetting: In a Nutshell
A few years ago, just at the brink of my eco-journey, I came home and found that my mom had left a book on my bed: Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life by Ed Begley Jr. It complimented the actor’s 2007 reality TV series on HGTV, “Living With Ed”, which [...]
