Learn How You Can Contribute to a Zero Waste Future The average human produces roughly 20 kilograms of waste each day. That seems beyond excessive, but that's the amount of rubbish every member of a household contributes to the gorging landfills all over the world. Along with the thousand-plus landfills in Australia and countless more globally, [...]
There’s no denying that food waste is one of the biggest problems that modern society faces. Close to 700 million people worldwide are undernourished while we waste as much as 1.4 billion tons of food every single year. That 1.4 billion is more than enough to cover all of the needs of the undernourished, yet it [...]
Autumn is a great season. Okay, we may have lost the summer sun but there’s something magical about the leaves changing color on the trees, and the cozy feeling you get returning home after a long walk. Along with the colorful display that nature provides, there are the culinary delights that come hand in hand with [...]
Plastic Free July is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation that aims to work towards their vision of seeing a world free of plastic waste. To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Plastic Free July® challenge is calling on people to choose to refuse single-use plastic in a bid to help exceed last year’s worldwide [...]
Millions of people around the world are adjusting to living in quarantine. Regular daily routines have been abandoned as people are encouraged to stay home to isolate as much as possible. While you and your housemates adjust to a new normal, your green habits should remain intact. Home isolation does not mean you must abandon your zero [...]
We all live very busy lives with so much going on with work, our families and our home life. In saying that, it is difficult to ignore what is going on around us in terms of climate change. Experts have explained that weather patterns are in flux and as a result of many man-made issues, the [...]
About how many plastic water bottles do you think various countries use every year? One million? Ten million? You wouldn’t even be close. Across the globe we have an insatiable desire for plastic water bottles, and as a result excessive plastic bottle usage is killing the planet. Our insatiable desire for plastic is killing [...]
Caring for the environment is crucial nowadays more than ever. The amount of plastic found in the ocean is frightening, but what’s more horrifying is the massive number of animal casualties. In the beginning, using plastic for convenience was a stellar idea, until the population grew and so did the number of people who use it. [...]
This World Environment Day, Plastic Free July Foundation is calling for us to collectively address one of the world’s greatest environmental challenges. Plastic Free July aims to raise awareness of the problems with single-use disposable plastic and challenges people to do something about it. You’ll be joining millions of people from 159 countries world-wide in making a [...]
