Ditch your rubbish bin!
Rubbish, trash, garbage, whatever you call it, we want to help you stop it
- Eco Products: browse the Store for products to help lighten your environmental footprint
- Practical Advice: check out the Guide for over 85 articles (& growing) on how to be rubbish free
There are now estimated to be 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square kilometre of every ocean in the world, and in the past 25 years in NZ, we've increased what we throw away by 73%. If we put our waste onto a rugby field we'd have a pile 30 stories high - every month!
In 2008 we completed a Rubbish Free Year in which we only created 2kg of rubbish from our home. You can read more about that here. We continue to live rubbish free and are keen to pool our knowledge with others to make it as easy as possible for all of us to reduce the waste from our homes and offices.
So, browse the Store to find items that will help you cut down on your rubbish, and explore the A - Z Guide for ideas and suggestions and please send any tips you have to us here so we can share them with everyone.
Recent additions to the Rubbish Free Guide
I know you've heard it before, but it really is easy to bake your own bread! If you're really not into it, there's a couple of other alternatives.
Recent additions to the Store
Recent Blog Posts
Volvo Ocean Race
This weekend I was lucky to be able to head down to the Auckland Viaduct, joining the other 250,000 people who came through the week to check out the Volvo Ocean Race Village. It was a fantastic atmosphere and awesome to be able to get right up close to the boats as the crew were ... read more.
Older is better? We’ll see.
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Dee in Nelson. The email was equal parts enquiring and venting. Like many, Dee was expressing her frustration at what appears to be a built in obsolescence to the appliances we buy for our homes. A few years ago friends of ours had their heater, ... read more.
Stock with bumps and bruises means a great deal for you!
Many years ago I had a job merchandising products in supermarkets. It amazed me the amount of stock that would arrive, or become, damaged on it’s way from manufacturer to customer. The standard practice was for the retailer to return the product for a refund, whereby the manufacturer would destroy it. Considering the amount of ... read more.