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8 Sustainable Ways to Dispose of Your Christmas Tree

You can take the tinsel down when the holidays are over, but don’t bag your Christmas tree! Here are eight sustainable ways to dispose of your Christmas tree after the…

8 Clever sustainable packaging ideas for Christmas

The festive season is around the corner and people are starting to make plans. We look forward to spending time with our family and friends as we exchange…

Fredrika Syren
Zero Waste, Zero Waste Holiday
Dec, 22, 2021
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Sustainable Holiday Gift Guide 2021

Photo by Lore Schodts on Unsplash

This week, I began to write my Christmas list for my family.

Every year, we tend to keep it fairly minimal, but since we do have kids, we naturally try to buy things…

Fredrika Syren
Zero Waste, Zero Waste Holiday
Dec, 08, 2021
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My Favorite Zero Waste Kitchen Essentials

Before I began my journey towards a zero-waste lifestyle, I used a massive amount of single-use, disposable items in the kitchen–soap, a dishwashing brush, plastic bags, plastic wrap, and more–essentials found in nearly every…

Fredrika Syren
Recent Articles, Zero Waste, Zero Waste Home
Nov, 27, 2021
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DIY Natural Halloween Face Paints

Trick or treat! Halloween is here and I am scrambling to make costumes for the kids. So far, we have one wolf and one math problem (!!?), both requiring face paints. Instead of using…

Fredrika Syren
Zero Waste, Zero Waste Kids
Oct, 27, 2021
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Curbside Composting — The New Way of Garbage

It’s finally happening…San Diego is getting curbside composting and well…not everyone are happy about it. What people don’t think about is that if they want to do something for the planet, composting is huge…

Fredrika Syren
Zero Waste, Zero Waste Composting
Sep, 21, 2021
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How To Perform a Trash Audit

One question we are frequently asked is what our first step toward achieving zero waste was. The answer: we did a trash audit. In order to reduce our waste to very little, we had…

Fredrika Syren
Zero Waste, Zero Waste Home
Sep, 06, 2021
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