Earth and Body Friendly

Buying second hand clothing is a great way to help the environment. I wrote about it here, so I won’t repeat myself. Clothes swap parties are a brilliant way to get yourself some second hand clothing and be ‘green’ at the same time. When I heard that my new friend, Tash, was having a clothes [...]

Avoiding plastic in unlikely places
I don’t use much plastic in my house. I tend not to buy it and I try to avoid it where possible. For instance, a roll of cling wrap will last me several years. One place which had never really occured to me to avoid plastic, though, is my toothbrush. Perhaps [...]

‘Reduce, reuse and recycle’ is a mantra that almost anyone interested in helping the environment will know well. Recycling is all very well and good, but the process of recycling still uses resources. Reusing is a wonderful thing, as it negates the need to recycle. For me, though, I think reducing is the key.
I tend [...]

Another way of limiting and reducing your use of plastic is to use your bread bags again for more bread. When the loaf is finished, simply turn the bag inside out to get rid of the crumbs and put it inside your resuable shopping bags so that you won’t forget it when you return to [...]

From all reports lately, it would seem that plastic is just about one of the most evil things ever invented, but perhaps it’s not the invention of plastic which is bad, but the way that we, as consumers, encourage the excessive production of it. Plastics certainly have a place in our lives and they perform [...]