So happy I got to share some of my favorite kitchen swaps!

In Norway, it’s now illegal to sell plastic straws and plates and forks and so on! 😍 It’s only allowed to sell those made of paper or other materials that breaks down or is recyclable! 😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm surprised this didn't get more attention, its actually really informative and not near as judgy as I finds a lot of other zero waste videos. I'm moving soon and I plan to include a lot of these in my new place!

Every time I hear about America and composting it blows my mind. I'm from Italy, and it's been at least 10/15 years since when the government made it mandatory to compost, in every house, and the same people who usually come to collect the rest of the trash (which also needs to be divided into paper, plastic, glass and not recyclable) take also our compost. I'm 20 years old, and I remember that this became mandatory when I was little. Yes, we also have major pollution and trash problems, but I love to see how also in school we have different bins for different type of trash, and they teach you how to do it properly (or at least they did with me when I was in middle school). Quite recently I started to realize how much waste me and my family produce, and I'm starting to do some research and find some ways I can reduce that, so this video was super super helpful. Thank you 💙🌳

Easiest way to reduce use of tissues etc is honestly to just simply install a bidet

You can also re-wax the bee's wraps by simply melting a touch of wax and using a paint brush of your choice and "paint" the wax on evenly then let it dry before reuse. You don't need to compost it for an extremely long time if you are willing to repair it as needed.

Instead of a dish sponge, use a dish cloth. You can boil it to disinfect it, and wash it in the washer.

For my vegans out there: The bee wax wrap is also available with vegetable wax 😊

Easy advice: take a bag with you when you go shopping. There are bags that you can fold and roll up into a tiny ball that fits into your handpalm, so that you can easily take it with you in your pocket/bag so that it doesn't take up space. Saves a lot of plastic bags and takes no effort at all.

Love this video for being conscience that not everyone has easy access to sustainable options but I also gives other great alternatives

I love this! I cannot wait to have my own place where I can do this as much as possible! 🤗

for big bags like rice bags, you can sew them to make reusable grocery bags super helpful especially when you but a lot of heavy items

Thankyou for being a light and sharing this wisdom more people need to become enlightened and choose conscious choices that better our planet it may only be home for a short period of time but it's our legacy that will carry it on for future generations

i love the disclaimer at the beginning. it seems clear to me, but i know people who would have needed this. don’t throw away things that are still usable!

If only the links to the items were provided in the description

*use what you have before buying new products!* 1. *beeswax wrap* _instead of_ -plastic wrap- 2. *reusable silicone bags* _instead of_ -single-use Ziploc bags- 3. *bar or concentrate dish soap* (vid recommends No Tox Life dish block or ET concentrate) or *refill at local zero-waste store* or *buy biggest bottle possible* (to reduce plastic) _instead of_ -dish soap in plastic packaging- 4. *plant-based sponge* (vid recommends Squishful) *or compostable dish brush* (vid recommends No Tox Life) _instead of_ -plastic sponge- 5. *dishwasher pods in cardboard* (vid recommends Dropps) or *compostable packaging* _instead of_ -dishwasher pods in plastic- 6. *reusable silicone baking mats* _instead of_ -parchment paper- 7. *bamboo paper towels* (vid recommends Reel paper) or (even better) *reusable dishcloths* _instead of_ -paper towels- 8. *refillable cooking spray can* (vid recommends Misto) _instead of_ -single-use aerosol cans- 9. *reusable straws* _instead of_ -single-use plastic straws- 10. *wood or bamboo cutting board* _instead of_ -plastic cutting board- 11. *metal tea infuser and French press* _instead of_ -single-use teabags and coffee cups- 12. *stainless-steel or cast-iron skillets* _instead of_ -nonstick pans- 13. *buy food in bulk* or *biggest bag possible* or *food in aluminum or cardboard or glass* _instead of_ -food in plastic packaging- 14. *compost* _instead of_ -sending food to landfill-

These are really great tips! One of my favorites was the Misto spray bottle! Thanks for sharing 😀

It's funny for me how People don't even consider to wash their "disposible" ziplocks and reuse them

THIS IS AMAAAAZING! Thank you so much, this is the best zero waste video I´ve seen over the last years!! It somehow makes me incredibly happy 🥰

Reuse clear glass bottles for some other food to keep. I also learned from my colleague who is chemist & pharmacist as well that some dark colored glasses are more expensive to manufacture. The dark colored glasses are made extra so that way to shut the sun light to protect some vitamins, minerals and nutrients in food or medicine in keeping its contents fresh. I find some foods we buy are like Tupperware and some cans have Tupperware like lids that they are reusable to keep my other food in the refrigerator or at the storage. You know, we tend to buy extra glass bottles for storing food from IKEA or some other shops. It looks great, of course, but you can do such collections to make your kitchen look nice. You just find your favorite glass you like, then you can just collect and like that. It doesn't have to be everything expensive to make optically perfect. 🤫🤭❤ Well, knowing that we soon won't have more resources and air to be able and the laxury in manufacturering such things to be more environmentally friendly, I thought it's definitely a good start in using head a little. Be creative. But, I just hope some colors of the bottles of its lids to have nice palet of colors and labels of the bottles are easily be taken off to make it easier for recycling use purposes. Women like to keep our kitchen with nicely coordinated colors for creating nice ambient and to have some nice styles. Some containers of purchased foods are already like sealed well Tupperwares. It would be nice, if the containers can be piled up to save some storage spaces. Some left over food or some food to take out or to give for lunch or to give away in not needing the containers back, it serves the purpose by using such bought normal food containers become handy. I don't want to throw away all the good plastics that are stable containers. This way, I don't have to buy Tupperwares all the time, but I am contributing my little effort to present the beautiful art of the Ad work of some Marketing agencies who created such products indirectly. Using whatever the plastic stable containers, I keep some of them that the containers can save some storage spaces. That way, I don't have to buy Tupperware containers myself, except some containers are given by my husband in law and it's good enough for now. Since I don't have much room space, I apply a little bit like a minimalist approach, and at the same time gentle to my environment. Not perfect, but hey, this leaves me an option to buy more nice things later for the house and for the family. You know, women like to find some good stuffs or beautiful stuffs to buy and collect them, so I am just postponing such fun. If you are young and your kids are small, then the kids drop accidentally some glass and plates anyway. 🤗 Anyways it would be nice to know some size of the lid of the bottles and the ways of the closing such bottles to be standardized, though. So that if one glass is broken, then the lid can be bought or use from other containers. Anyway, thank you for your tips. I don't know, if I can find this wax wrap thing in Germany, but it's nice to know on how other people try to be gentle with our environment. 😊❤

I never thought of using a french press to make coffee rather than a regular coffee machine! Have just recently started drinking coffee and am for sure going to buy one of those machines instead of a coffee machine!

I love this series thxs sooo much, can you do laundry room next??

OmG I'm definitely gonna look into the bamboo paper towels and the Aerosol pills can replacement. That is awesome!

We’ve kept a compost bucket in the kitchen for years, but it never occurred to me to stash it in the freezer. That’s a brilliant idea, especially in the summertime when things break down much faster and bugs seem to find their way in much easier! 👍

It frustrates me that not every city let's people recycle glass in the States. I wish there was a way to change that.

Very helpful 👍 and I already doing half of what you mentioned in your video. People with children should edicate themselves for the better future for their children and grandchildren. Thanks for sharing 💚🤍💛 from the UK 🇬🇧

We have red-cycle in Sydney where we take our plastic bags, wrappers etc to the supermarket to be recycled. It's tough to go plastic free, but every little bit helps.

Love it. Trying everyday to be more zero waste. These tips definitely help. I don’t have a zero waste store near me so I try to buy as much as I can in glass, paper or cardboard and aluminium.

I use cloth grocery bags when I go to the grocery store. There have been instances when I left the grocery without using any plastic or paper bags from the store because I used my own cloth bags for produce and large grocery bags for carrying out the groceries. These really help.

the refilling/pumping spray for oils: my miother used one years and i could NOT remember for the life of me what it was called! THANK YOU for sharing this! i have looked online and watched so many zeo-waste or low waste videos just trying to see if someone uses it also or could mention what its called, thank you so much! also: heads up, super easy to clean and you can fill it with just about any oils or liquids, makes buying oils for cooking and baking a lot cheaper ONLY downside....don't over pump, this can break it

I made my own beeswax food wraps, and when the wax is worn out, all I have to do is re-wax them, rather than discard them. I took worn out flannel nightgowns and pajamas from the rag bin and stitched up 8" square kitchen wipes from them. They come perfectly clean with my homemade laundry soap. Because nothing else does the job well, I still use paper towels for greasing baking pans and for draining rinsed fish before cooking, and one roll typically lasts for 11 months. I use bamboo coffee filters in my coffee maker, and will now hunt for other bamboo paper products, now that you've turned me on to their availability. Great video!

You're going to heaven for this video ❤️

I have started implementing some of these changes, starting with the silicone baking mat as I use the oven a lot, and now my family have also ditched parchment paper and use silicone baking mats!

I love this video bc I didn’t know a lot of these products existed so thank you sm for making this video. I learned so much from it!

My favorite compost pit is 3 hens. No vegetable, grain or fruit waste. They turn scraps into 3 eggs a day, one for each of us, and no gas or packaging involved in that either. Their manure and bedding goes into my compost pit with grass from mowing, fall leaves, coffee grounds for rich dirty and fertilizer.

for cleaning dish solution, i use soapnuts. just combine soapnuts and water, hence a good cleaning solution.

With all the droughts and water wise issues around atm, using a dishwasher is really a waste of water. Hand washing is a pain, but a lot less water. Having rainwater where I live a dishwasher uses more than the loo, showers and hand washing together.

thank you *so* much for sharing these! learned a lot of things that I didn't even know existed

This is such an awesome video, I love being more aware and this video is just so amazing

Love love love this!

Love these! I've done a handful of these swaps myself. I have Dropps on subscription for both laundry & dishwashing. I did try Etee's concentrated dish soap, but found that it would initially mix unevenly and then later would dehydrate a bit and be impossible to dispense. So I switched to Cleancult's cardboard dish soap cartons. I still have to shift away from paper towels and plastic wrap (not that I use either that much).

Metal cooking pans can be scrapped and recycled I keep my veggie scraps in the freezer until I have enough to make tasty broth as a base for soups and stews

Very good. Nice delivery!

Thank you, this is so helpful!!

You can find the links to the items mentioned in the description!

Great tips but I would have liked links to the products used. P.S. Straws cause lip wrinkles :)

Love these swaps I especially like stasher bags and I actually made a vid about a few zero waste swaps I’ve made in the kitchen too

Thank you so much for so useful informations!🌷

Dr bronners liquid soap is a concentrate. To make handwriting dish soap use 1 part liquid soap 10 parts of water. :)

I would use more zero waste products if they would be less expensive for example one stasher bag is 15€ I could get 30 boxes (1950 plastic bags for this price) I just cant afford most of the zero waste options as a student

Very helpful & thought provoking video, all of these thing's have been on my mind lately, getting away from plastic is almost impossible, come on manufacturer's step up. It's also very hard on a very low budget product's such as you demonstrated need a price reduction, i know they last longer & save, but i & many do not have enough money to even start, don't mean we care any less.

Nespresso coffee pods are recyclable and they give you a compostable pouch to return the used pods to them free of charge.

I take my reusable bags and jars to the store and avoid using plastic all together. Family cloth instead of toilet paper, Dr. Bronners is my go to. 1/4 cup white vinegar in the rinse will bind any residual soap and soften your clothes, even hang drying. BumGenius diapers instead of disposables, Gladrags instead of sanitary pads, Wearever underwear instead of Depends, I could go on and on. This is my passion.

Excellent content 👍🏾🇹🇹

Don't forget about toothpaste pellets! They can come in recyclable glass jars and avoid plastic tubes.

My family has never used paper towels we don't keep them in our house, and a lot of people seem confused by that. We don't do it for any waste prevention reason either we just do it because its a waste of money to buy single use items like paper towels and tissues when we can use towels and toilet paper which we already have anyway.

Holy crap! It took me over 5 years to use one roll of plastic wrap. I can’t believe people are using that much plastic wrap. That’s insane. I’m not a huge fan of the beeswax wrap but we do have a couple of them.

Also - they make reusable coffee filters. My coffee machine came with one.

ThanksGivings Goodful - Very much Needed Video And Have To Share ⚪➕🌎😊

To composte: I just digged a hole on the ground. I throw the scraps there, get the hoe and mix a little bit. Then I just cover with some soil

She has the same name as the guy from The Good Place :)

Thanks you!!

beewax wrap was amazing

Woolah's tea dips are a great alternative for those plastic ones. It comes in 4 flavors, are similar to regular tea pouches but no plastic is used! I hope it helps😄

Hi great to hear you. I reserve some old rejected clothes of cotton, like pillow covers, undergarments, pajamas etc which no one can use. To clean some real difficult mess, i use such cloth before throwing it. Also for ziplocks, we get a particular company's dosa batter in ziplock packet. I reserve all of them and then use them for all sort of storage. I also return all the unavoidable polythene bags in cleaned conditions to the grocery store. To tell you in india we don't have any zero waste store. Sad but i try my best under my circumstances.

Worms are a great way. To compost

Sooo helpful 😍😍😍

problem with Stasher bags is the cost for one. They are at least 20 bucks PER bag. that's out of a lot of people's price ranges atm. Also Stasher bags because they are silicone still are NOT recycleable in 99% of areas. You might be blessed to live in california where they can recycle it otherwise it's landfill fodder. I find them extremely clunky and hard to work with. Yeah they are thicker but you can't open them as wide as ziplock bags and they can smash the food you put inside of them. Also with parchment paper, Parchment paper is compostable as long as its not waxed, Silicone baking sheets while nice are NOT recycleable. For cookware, I use aluminum. I've had my cookware for over 30+ years with no issues at all. If they get stuff stuck on it, i soak it in hot water with dishsoap, comes off like a dream. These are some good ideas but there are better ones out there.

Just a reminder that consumer plastic pollution in the ocean is just a tiny fraction compared to commercial fishing nets! It's awesome to take personal measures but don't be stressed about your contribution because ultimately most of the impact cones from corporations

I love my silicone bags I hate using the one time use ziplock bags and my reusable straws

I think the dish block is interesting. The bar soaps are getting better.

This was really helpful! Thanks for the tips! ❤️

I just want to double thank you for always highlighting which brands are Black owned. I can get product right away.

Thank you so much!

Oh my god I literally went like “Good girl goodfuuuul” LOL

This was a wonderful and informative video!

KMART are now selling a pack of cotton bags of about 6 of different sizes for only $10 AUD-love mine and have bought some for friends-perfect for bulk buying and not using plastic

Instead of the dish block can also just buy bulk dishsoap(1 bottle that lasts months) and refill a mason jar. You can buy dispensers that can be threaded on from Amazon. Better yet, if you buy bulk Castille soap, you can use that to replace all your personal hygiene and cleaning products and it can be diluted with water.

Thanks because this vid is informative. I get the logic of Plastic < Paper < Silicone < Chemical=Plastic..

This was so helpful! Thank you!

You could rewax the beeswax wraps when the wax start to wear out. So you don't have to use more cotton fabric to replace it.

This video was fantastic! So many good tips

steel & Cast iron are both induction top friendly

Very helpful thank you! ♡

Great🤩💚🌿

The hardest thing to break is buying food plastic free. Eating less meat means you more lettuce and greens and buying the washed version in plastic is soo convenient 😩

Love this video

You can use the coffee ground to prevent cats from peeing or pooping in your yard, because they hate the smell and it's great to nurture you plants. Orange peel too!

The best low waste kitchen swap you can do for the oceans and the planet is eat more plant based. #seaspiracy #cowspiracy

this is a really helpful/informative video

Awesome video. Only thing is, ordering all these things online is not really sustainable either what with all the packaging and shipping.

I don't use bees wax wrap. I just bought a bunch of pyrex with rubber tops. They're an investment up front, but in the long run cheaper. (It's 4 dollars a piece, but I've used them like 30 times a year for the past 5 years. ) Think I bought maybe 20 of them for less than 100 dollars. But, I've used them for 5 years, and I've only gone through one plastic wrap and 1 tin foil wrap in that same 5 years. Those 2 cost 3 dollars a piece, x 3 = 18 dollars x 5 years = 100 dollars. So I broke even, and from now on its profit.

Great swap ideas and I like the aerosol swap.

All the silicone items are great, but what happens to them when they are at the end of their useful life?

These are great tips! Thanks :)

I ate cheese that was wrapped in beeswax wrap and my mouth itched like crazy.

I bought the No Tox Life soap in bulk. It’s unfortunately very melty. I wish they had triple milled it so it would last even longer. I’ve tried three different soaps and the best solid dish soap I’ve found is from Meliora. It lasted the longest and didn’t become a gloopy mess despite using them all in the same bamboo soap dish. Now, I’m stuck with “two years” supply of No Tox Life, but it’s not going to last that long at all.

There is no composting service here which sucks so much (and my apartment is too small for indoor composting and I have no balcony). I text the local government every few months to see if they have come up with a solution yet.

Bulk stores really expansive where I live. I am trying to reduce my waste.

Try carbon steel pans too, after a while they become non stick with use