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  • Soap is one of our not-so-secret #zerowaste weapons 😈! It’s so versatile!! • A huge THANK YOU to @nessa.elessar’s mom for these handcrafted #vegan and #palmoilfree soaps💚💚💚! @nessa.elessar is a tiny house youtuber (make sure to head over!) and I was super thrilled to finally visit her and see her tiny house this Monday (check out her IG for pics of her gorgeous tiny house 😻😻😻)! • We have grown up to believe we need a different product for every single part of our body and every purpose. This way we spend money not just on one, but on MULTIPLE products! 💸 Most of which contain harmful substances and are rough on the environment! 💔 • Ask your grandparents and they will most likely tell you a bar of soap 🧼 is all they needed back in the day! Less packaging and also fewer transportation emissions l, because a bar of soap is basically a concentrate. • We use bar soap: 👉 to wash our hands 👉 to wash our faces (not every coat tho, most of the time water is all your face needs!) 👉 as a body wash 👉 instead of shampoo; don’t forget to use an apple cider vinegar rinse after (= 1 tbsp ACV + 1 cup of water) 👉 to do the dishes 👉 to hand wash our clothes 👉 to treat stains 👉 to clean our windows • A nice handcrafted soap is also a very nice gift by the way, because it’s such a simple swap! 💚
  • Have you been to one of the numerous seasonal markets? As enjoyable as these are, they are unfortunately always full of single-use items. Check out @leahstellapayne tips to go #lowwaste at these jolly public events 👇💚!! • Repost @leahstellapayne ・・・ Low-waste tips for public events! ’Tis the season for winter markets and craft fairs. Unfortunately, these sorts of public events also typically mean single-use plastic. If you stop to take a moment and look at all the vendors, it’s really amazing to realize how many single-use products are actually used at these events. It’s not just shopping bags: paper cups for drinks, tiny plastic containers for samples, straws, napkins, plates, cutlery…the list goes on and on. 🎄 I went to a Christmas market the other day with my family and it was so fun! I managed to avoid a lot of single-use waste, and although things weren’t perfect, I was pretty darn happy. Swipe for my top tips. 🚮♻️🥤🙅🏻‍♀️ I’d love to hear your thoughts: do you make use of these tips? Are you going to any fun events this season?
  • For a new TV-documentary, I am looking for motivated families that live in Rheinland-Pfalz or Baden-Württemberg in Germany that are interested in living more sustainably.💚🌍✨ • For two whole months, you will be getting a very professional coach. ME! 😆 • The documentary is for the German public broadcaster SWR (Südwestrundfunk), so rest assured it will not turn into a reality TV show 😉. • If you are interested, or if you know any families who might be interested in greenifying their life, shoot me a DM😊! And, who knows, we might meet soon! 😁💚
  • A very simple #zerowaste #farmersmarket haul 🥕🥬🧅🍠🥦🎃🍞🍪, but it's so special to me!! Because it's the first time we got LOCALLY GROWN SWEET POTATOES 😍🍠!! I had no idea you could even grow them in this temperate climate!⁠ •⁠ We also bought this weird large lettuce thingy 🥬 that I had never seen before! The girl working at the booth told us to stir-fry it, and we did. It tastes like regular stir-fried lettuce (which is a thing in many Asian countries), but very bitter. Not bad though.⁠ •⁠ This is what I love about the farmers market—or small, owner-run grocery stores! You can ask them how to prepare an ingredient you have never seen, or where the produce is from.⁠ •⁠ We went to an organic chain store two days ago to buy a bread roll because we were out and I was sooo hangry 🤪! There we discovered ginger grown in Germany! Again, I didn't know you could grow ginger in this rather cold climate 🤯! When I asked an employee if she could tell me where in Germany it was grown, she looked at me and said: "I'm sorry, but how should I know?" That's when I realized I am far too used to shopping in cosy small stores and at the farmers market 😂
  • Did you know you can use horse chestnuts 🌰 (=the non-edible chestnuts) AKA buckeyes AKA conkers as laundry detergent? 🧼👖✨💚 • Just like soap nuts, buckeyes belong to the “soapberry family” and contain saponines (“sapo” is Latin for soap), a natural surfactant. Fun fact—horse chestnuts are NOT related to the edible chestnuts. You can look both of them up on Wikipedia and look at the pictures there to see how to tell them apart 🌰🔍. • So if you happen to live in a temperate climate zone, chances are there are horse chestnut trees 🌳🌰 in your parks! Yes, there is free, all-natural, locally grown laundry detergent literally lying on the streets around September and October 😍! • Check out the 👉link in bio👈 for the tutorial and the FAQ!!
  • You might know @robjgreenfield as the Dude Making A Difference (title of his book 😉), or as the activist that wore every single piece of trash on his body—while living like the average American! Yes, that's 4.5 pounds of trash he added to his trash suit every day (swipe to see how that looks 😲)!! • Rob’s amazing, and crazy in the best way there is 😆👍—crazy about making a difference in this messed up world, crazy about getting people to think about sustainability, crazy about showing all of us that yes, it might sound radical, but it can be done! • Rob has rode his bamboo bicycle across the US from coast to coast, avoided fossil fuels almost completely, and has lived off 284 pounds of dumpster food (shoutout to all dumpster divers out there 💚)! So… Just some ideas iin case you were out for a new challenge 😉💚!! • Make sure to head over to his IG to show him some love! Right now he has also taken over my IG stories to share his 5 tips to not just live a more sustainable life, but a life with more happiness, health, and freedom. And he has let me spam his followers on his IG story to share some tips on reducing trash with a simple mason jar 😁! (How come there’s no jar emoji 🤪??) • 📷 @robjgreenfield

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