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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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 -
New Lid & Colours on the Cheeki Coffee Mugs
Whether you're talking about water bottles, smoothie cups or reusable coffee cups, there's usually not a huge amount of difference in the performance of the body of the product, but the design of the lid and your ability -
Bento Box Comparison - Lunchbots vs Ever Eco
An investment in a good quality stainless steel lunch box will get you more than one school years worth of value. Plus, stainless steel is recyclable at end of life if you happen to bend it out of -
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 -
Fridge To Go now in 4 new designs
One philosophy we have when sourcing products for our store is to fit as many as possible in to our 'Buy Quality Buy Once' philosophy. This generally means a higher price tag up front, but it also means -
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 -
The Pro's & Con's of choosing a stainless steel lunch box
In our every changing world of living plastic free, now more than ever, people are choosing alternatives to plastic, even reusable plastic products, and instead, going for things that are made from metal, glass and even bamboo. In -
Is it possible to filter water without plastic?
This is a question we get asked once in a while, so I thought I would give some details on how you can do it, why I think it's not really necessary and what the middle ground is
