My Story

I am a busy wife and working mama of two amazing young kids, S and J. 

Since I was a kid, I have always been passionate about the environment and our impact on it, but as my life has become busier I have leaned on the convenience of the modern world. Lately, with climate change and plastic pollution being a hot topic, I have been thinking a lot about how we are destroying our planet and I worry for the future of my children. I want what every parent wants ... for my children to have a bright future, to be happy, to be healthy and to have a safe home.

With this in mind, my family and I started making some changes to try and live a cleaner, more environmentally friendly life. I hope that by doing this, I will be teaching my children to be more conscientious about their choices in life and not to accept something because it is convenient or cheaper, or because it is popular when we know it is wrong (such as packaging everything in single use plastics).

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I realize that becoming totally zero waste will not happen overnight and that attempting to do so will probably lead to frustration, anger, feeling overwhelmed, great expense and ultimately us quitting before we get started. So my husband and I decided to start slowly, making some obvious and easy changes straight away and aiming to introduce further changes as we go along our journey to minimal / zero waste.  

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This is the story of our journey ... We hope it will help others on their journey too!