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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The new Glass Lunch Box from Kilner
There's something new in our lunch box category and we have been crossing our fingers and wishing someone would make this for years - a fully glass lunch box, including the lid. Kilner, who are best known for -
A changing of the guard for the 450ml Cheeki Travel Mugs
Ever since the War On Waste aired last year, Australia have become great adopters of the reusable coffee cup along with reusable shopping bags, even though that last one met with some pushback in NSW a few months -
The Pro's & Con's of choosing a stainless steel lunch box
In our every changing world of living plastic free, now more than ever, people are choosing alternatives to plastic, even reusable plastic products, and instead, going for things that are made from metal, glass and even bamboo. In -
Is it possible to filter water without plastic?
This is a question we get asked once in a while, so I thought I would give some details on how you can do it, why I think it's not really necessary and what the middle ground is -
NEW Zero Waste Shopping Set from Ever Eco
In NSW where I live, 6 months ago, walking around your typical supermarket or shopping centre, only a small number of eco savvy shoppers would be walking around carrying their own reusable shopping bags. Now, the number is -
Safety tip metal straws are safer for kids
Over the past couple of years we have hosted many discussions about reusable straws and how suitable they are for people to be drinking from, especially children. The ends on most metal straws are thin and the same -
Which pegs for your plastic free laundry?
Going plastic free is becoming more mainstream as activists show us just how much plastic is floating around the ocean and how our rubbish is damaging wildlife. Some of the images and videos are hard to watch. One -
Sol Bottles & Coffee Cups in new colours
There are many instances where natural and eco friendly products become so popular that the manufacturers can't keep up with demand. It happened when the war on waste aired last year with the reusable coffee cup. All brands -
Two new designs in the Avanti 1.5 litre insulated water bottles
Each summer since their introduction in to our water bottle range, these 1.5 litre insulated water bottles from Avanti have been a popular choice. They have the following features not all of which are found in your standard -
Introducing Chico Bag's Original and Vita Shopping Bags
UPDATE: Chico Bag is no longer sold in store. It was only a week or two after the plastic shopping bag ban came out that news stories started to appear about how to avoid injuries from over-filling reusable -
The new Camelbak Chute Mag
The Camelbak Chute Mag collection, released in 2018 season is a newly designed lid, making some improvements on the original Camelbak Chute water bottle. Both the Chute and the Eddy water bottles share a universal thread size within -
Baking Cups & Paper - reusable vs disposable
Baking cups and baking paper are a staple in many pantries. In the world of reusables, these are still disposable, single use products. Below, we give you the run down on the different types of single use options
