We all need to cut back on the wasteful and environment-harming single-use plastic we buy but making products from scratch can take time and resources. In recent months, I have been using Amend Market, a new Upstate service that parks up outside my house and refills hand soap, multipurpose cleaner, and laundry powder in the […]
Stop Plastic Pollution
33 easy ways to go green in Greenville
As 2020 begins it’s impossible to ignore the impact our lifestyles and consumption as humans are having on the planet we call home. We are on track to have more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 and global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels were on course to hit a record high […]
A guide to cloth diapers
According to the EPA, around 20 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year in the US alone, causing 3.5 million tons of waste. If you’re considering the switch to cloth diapers, here’s everything you need to know… Confession: I didn’t cloth diaper with my son. As a first-time mother, just keeping a small […]
A bad bag habit
The average American home takes home 1,500 plastic bags a year, of which only about 1% are recycled. All too often, these single-use bags end up polluting the environment and being eaten by birds, sea turtles, and fish. It harms us too when the toxins from plastic make it into the food chain. By committing to […]
Why plastic straws suck
These days I like to be the weirdo who takes her own paper straws to bars and restaurants. Plastic straws are a menace. We don’t use them at home so why do we need them when we go places? Yet 500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US with too many […]