By composting your organic waste, you’re already substantially reducing what you send to landfill – and you benefit from a steady supply of compost too. Plastics are a huge problem that I’ve been consciously working around for a few years. I’ve established re-usable waterbottle (plastic and metal) and fabric shopping bags as routine and in …
This week, in her piece for the Parys Gazette, Lisa looks at plastic bottles and being able to refill containers with water, milk and fresh juice. In her household, milk consumption is high with use in breakfast cereals, cooking (quiches, sauces, baking) and also milk drinking. The number of 2l plastic containers going into her …
YOLO’s Lisa is on a mission. Watching Zero Waste ‘activist’ Bea Johnson’s video recently set off a chain reaction. With her YOLO Compost Tumbler in action, Lisa is sorted on the 5th of Bea’s 5Rs (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot). Now she’s working on the first two. She is writing a new column for …
I’ve just learned about Bea Johnson and her Zero Waste Home website. She is currently in South Africa and she is giving a talk today (8 May) in Durban (13h00 – 17h00) and tomorrow (9 May) in Bryanston, JHB (18h00 – 20h00). Bea has “launched a global movement, inspiring thousands of people throughout the world to …
