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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Zero Waste Reusable Bread Bags
We all know we need to use reusable shopping bags, but how many of us add reusable bread bags to the list of things to carry to the supermarket to cut down on single use plastic waste? Whether -
How to care for your Lunchbots Classic Dot Lids
Lunchbots Classic Dot Lids have been a little problematic for some customers, so we have written this guide to help you look after them properly. When we start our store way back in 2009, Lunchbots were the first -
Your guide to the greener options in reusable shopping bags
Both Woolworths & Coles announced in July 2017 (during Plastic Free July) that they would phase out all single use plastic bags over 12 months for greener options. Early April 2018, the supermarkets announced that they started the -
Large Smoothie Cups arrive in store
At the start of the year, I predicted that 2019 would be the year that smoothie cups got the same attention that coffee cups did. Reusable coffee cups are everywhere now. Most stores that sell coffee also have -
The versatility of silicone reusables over single use plastic
I read a great quote the other day. "We don't need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly." This blog post is for the millions, to make swaps a -
Glass Water Bottle Comparison - Sol vs Camelbak
This blog was originally written in March 2019 and has been updated in January 2024 The Sol Water Bottle (only made in glass) and the glass version of the Camelbak Water Bottle (also made in bpa free tritan -
Introducing the glass bento box from Glasslock
Earlier this year we bought you a glass lunch box with a difference from Kilner, it was the first glass lunch box in store to have a glass lid. Today, we're bringing you another first, a glass bento -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
