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My Zero Waste Journey

An Overview of Elimination Communication/Going Diaper Free

Ok so we're not exactly diaper free just yet but this is one of the terminologies used for elimination communication (EC) which...

How we save time and 200€/month on our food shop

The short answer: we started eating much less meat and putting on fewer fires (more on that below). The long answer: I'll go through how...

RTE's "One Day: How Ireland Cleans Up" Summed Up

For anyone that missed RTE's One Day: How Ireland Cleans Up, here are the stats summed up along with an infographic with the highlights....

Hair Care Using Only Water and a Boar Bristle Brush

One day while scrolling through instragram I came across an update by one of my fellow zero wasters who mentioned caring for their hair...

Cloth Diaper Update Part 3 - How We Clean

When I was looking into cloth nappies I wasn't sure about the cleaning or how to even go about it. After watching numerous youtube videos...

Cloth Diaper Update Part 2 - What We Bought

What we settled on and why After renting a set of newborn nappies we got a sense for what worked for us and what didn't. There are a wide...

Cloth Diaper Update Part 1 - Why Cloth

Things have finally settled down since baby's arrival and we've had a bit of time to build up a routine through trial and error that I...

Composting with a small city garden

Why Compost Firstly - why bother composting? 1 - food scraps and other organic material - even though organic will either not break down...

Minimizing waste when travelling

We were recently lucky enough to take a baby-moon in Portugal - while it's best not to fly at all as flying anywhere probably negates all...

Minimalist Baby Prep

As mentioned in a recent post - C and I are expecting! We'd like to try and continue our zero waste/minimalist lifestyle when baby...

Cooking Eggs

Granola

Small Green Plants

Lemons