zero waste basics

4 min read 2022-06-06 22:41:13

How to Repair Your Stuff so You Buy Less of It

We obsess over the wrong metrics. A national fixation with productivity relegates still-useful items to overburdened landfills because we feel we’d

5 min read 2022-06-01 06:52:18

I can’t believe that in all these years of writing my blog, I haven’t written this post on jars. For the most part, my jars consist of de-labeled

9 min read 2022-05-05 22:54:14

And how businesses can accept BYO containers For consumers: How to BYO The first time you request food in your own container at a business, you may

9 min read 2022-05-05 22:54:14

And how businesses can accept BYO containers For consumers: How to BYO The first time you request food in your own container at a business, you may

5 min read 2022-04-14 03:44:02

by Tara McKenna, founder of The Zero Waste Collective Tara McKenna The best way to curb consumption is to not buy anything at all. Did your jaw just

6 min read 2022-04-01 23:24:42

Ideally, we would eat all the food we buy. (Go here for 23 simple tips to help with that.) But food waste happens. If we can’t eat it, or give it

6 min read 2022-04-01 23:24:42

Ideally, we would eat all the food we buy. (Go here for 23 simple tips to help with that.) But food waste happens. If we can’t eat it, or give it

5 min read 2021-12-07 10:01:22

Gifts in jars always look good. Even a lump of coal packed in a jar would. For the following seven gifts in jars, you could buy fancy Le Parfait or

5 min read 2021-12-07 10:01:22

Gifts in jars always look good. Even a lump of coal packed in a jar would. For the following seven gifts in jars, you could buy fancy Le Parfait or

8 min read 2021-11-19 03:16:14

The following nine simple swaps will help you minimize plastic waste this Thanksgiving while maximizing taste and saving money. 1. Buy vegetables in

1 min read 2021-10-20 00:35:51

If you want to live more sustainably but think it requires too much work, start with passive zero-waste strategies, actions that, like passive

1 min read 2021-09-16 21:16:55

Enough readers have asked me how to I store and keep bread fresh without plastic bags that I thought the question warranted its own post. Whether you

1 min read 2021-08-02 22:33:10

Carrying your thermos and containers out and about, wouldn’t you like to know if a café, restaurant or bulk store allows you to fill up your

1 min read 2021-06-30 22:54:48

You may wonder what on earth you’ll eat in a day, let alone all of Plastic Free July I remember how proud we felt back in 2011 after we ate our

1 min read 2021-06-18 00:19:31

If you don’t know where to even begin when embarking on a month without plastic, start by cutting what the Plastic Free July website refers to as