Healthy Living Guide - Eco Friendly Articles
We have been a voice for eco living since 2009 when our online store was established. We sold $50,000 worth of stainless steel water bottles in January 2010 and it has been interesting to watch the trends evolve over the last decade. Back then, we were one of the first stores to sell reusable produce bags for your fruit & veg at the supermarket. We would sell a few each month. Once the War On Waste aired on the ABC in 2017, we were selling thousands of them and couldn’t get our hands on enough stock. Now you can buy them at the supermarket and Harris Farm.
We have watched natural deodorants migrate from roll-ons to pastes in tins to sticks in cardboard tubes that fully compost at the end of life. We have seen companies who make stainless steel straws in plastic hang sell packaging change their packaging because you, the consumer, spoke up and said it wasn’t acceptable and we passed every single message on, and they changed.
I was interviewed for the book Quitting Plastic in 2018 when the mainstream was ready to help embrace the change, and it has truly exploded since then. Our main message is simple, make small changes where you can. Don’t beat yourself up if you’re not perfect. I am always reminded of the quote by zero waste chef Anne Marie Bonneau:-
“We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”
Latest Articles
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How to choose the best kids water bottle for your child
There are 2 brands in particular in our water bottle range that we think are best suited to children, and while there are many options to consider when choosing the right water bottle for your kids, for most -
Lunchbots - same great product - new names
The first stainless steel lunch box we ever had in store was from Lunchbots, and like another legacy brand Klean Kanteen, they're have been in our store since almost day 1 (which was April 2009) and are still -
Your Guide to choosing the best Reusable Smoothie Cup
2019 is the year that reusable smoothie cups are going to come in to their own. Just like reusable coffee cups a couple of years ago, attention is turning to the massive numbers of plastic lined paper cups -
New Lid & Colours on the Cheeki Coffee Mugs
Whether you're talking about water bottles, smoothie cups or reusable coffee cups, there's usually not a huge amount of difference in the performance of the body of the product, but the design of the lid and your ability -
Why the new Cheeki Active bottle is THE choice for Back To School for any age
Cheeki have been an active part of the reusables movement since 2009, the same year Shop Naturally opened. We're the first to admit that when their first range of stainless steel water bottles were launched, their sports caps -
Bee Green Wraps New Custom Designs
Over the past 12-18 months, ever since the War On Waste aired on the ABC, reusables have become a more mainstream shopping item with many Australians converting old habits in to new and more sustainable ones. They have -
Bento Box Comparison - Lunchbots vs Ever Eco
An investment in a good quality stainless steel lunch box will get you more than one school years worth of value. Plus, stainless steel is recyclable at end of life if you happen to bend it out of -
The Eco Footprint of a Water Filter Jug
A couple of months ago we wrote a blog post about how to filter water without plastic. We don't find any of the methods particularly effective, so the next thing to take in to consideration is the impact -
Fridge To Go now in 4 new designs
One philosophy we have when sourcing products for our store is to fit as many as possible in to our 'Buy Quality Buy Once' philosophy. This generally means a higher price tag up front, but it also means -
New reusable smoothie cups launched
Are reusable smoothie cups going to be the new reusable coffee cups of 2019? We think so. This week we launched a dedicated category for smoothie cups in our store and the first brand we have added is -
New Season Project Ten bags arrive
Super fun and functional, the bags from Project Ten are a lot sturdier and long wearing than their price tags may suggest. These season we have 2 different shaped insulated lunch bags, a regular shopping bag and an -
Sustainable Gift Wrapping Ideas
With Christmas fast approaching, any time I walk in to a supermarket at the moment I am greeted by hundreds of tubes of wrapping paper all wrapped up in plastic. There's not a whole lot of paper in