One family's journey to zero waste in Chattanooga, TN
For those of you with kids, are you tired of stepping on the plastic eggs your kids have strewn around your house? Thanks to my mother in law for this awesome idea: Save your plastic eggs to reuse year after year. Collect them all up today before they get stepped on and broken. Put them… Continue reading No waste Easter egg hunt
Have you ever wondered what is in your cleaning products? I started out wanting to de-plastic my cleaning supplies, and it turned out that there are problems WAY bigger than just the plastic bottles my cleaning chemicals came in. I was curious about what, if any, research there was on the safety of the ingredients in… Continue reading Cleaning supplies detox
Here is our plastic waste from February 2018: It feels like more than it should be, and I'm a little discouraged. Somethings that will not be repeated: Vitamin bottles (if you're eating a whole-food diet, you don't need them!) I even had a patient once who had memory damage from taking a multivitamin with poor… Continue reading Plastic Free Journal #8
Many brands of peanut butter have things besides peanuts in them (salt, sugar, preservatives). Not to mention that they are often packaged in plastic (which are probably leaking chemicals into your food!). Update: Chattanooga has a great new grocery store called Gaining Ground Grocery that has a peanut butter grinder. Sadly, EarthFare has closed :(… Continue reading Peanut butter
Our family started on a journey of zero-waste, but it has also turned out to be a quest for zero-toxins as well. One place where I found I was exposing my family to many unwanted toxins was through our commercial cleaning products. I'm going to write a full post on what I found when looking… Continue reading Cleaning Power! (almost zero-waste)
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