Do you know the meaning behind the symbols on the products you buy and use every day? Did you know that the symbols on plastic don't necessarily mean that you can recycle the plastic? The “recycling symbols” can give us guidance on what type of plastics we are dealing with, but we need to check with our local recycling systems to see if they can actually be added to our recycling bin. I strongly recommend getting familiar with the local rules around recycling.

There is a misconception that the zero waste lifestyle is fancy and expensive, but the truth is it isn’t fancy and it doesn’t have to be expensive. It is not fancy because the main idea to reuse as much as you can — so the jars you reuse might not all look the same. It doesn’t need to be expensive because you do not have to buy everything at once and once bought, you will not need to buy them again…

In this week’s blog post I want to tackle the monster that is food waste. At the beginning of my zero waste journey, I was challenged to reflect on not only my food packaging but the actual food waste my household was producing as well.