There is something so relaxing about seeing a kitchen that contains almost no plastic.

I started using reusable glass jars for everything in the 1960's. Health food co-ops only had bulk in the 60's. I refuse to have a dish-washer/microwave/and few electric utensils. Actually, we were called 'back to the land' hippies and I live on a farm where I grow our organic food, heat with wood when possible and harvest wood from my wood-lot trees. It's everything I dreamed of as a little girl living in the city.

My friend taught me this great trick: she reuses the plastic mesh that comes in Brussels sprouts or cutie oranges to scrub her dishes in lieu of a sponge!

I love that you mention to do the best you can and be aware!

These tips are good. Just to add, people from India practised these way before even these concepts are introduced. The impact of Western way of life on the urban Indians did changed the life and living pattern, but still majority of us practice and follow our traditional way of life. #sustainableliving is very much part of our culture. Great that now the world doing the same. Good luck. And keep educating.

Not only is zero waste, it looks beautiful! Thank you.

My husband loves his condiments! So I'm learning to make them myself out of basic ingredients that we do keep on hand, and storing them in my glass jars. Plus, most condiments originated as naturally fermented digestive aids, and of course made of healthy ingredients, which are more great benefits of making your own. So you can be totally simple and low waste without giving up the taste and health benefits of those yummy condiments!

I never even thought to fill up a thermos to keep my tea hot all day! Guess what I'll be doing this winter? Great video, Niamh.Thanks for the suggestions.

We next to never use kitchen paper to clean up the kitchen. When I was a child, my mother used to donate most of my clothes when I had outgrown them, except for those that had been washed, worn, and loved so hard and often that it showed. She took those and cut them down to make reusable cleaning wipes out of them. If it's t-shirt fabric they don't even fray. I'm in my 30s now, and she still has a stash of those wipes. Cutting up old bedsheets to make cleaning wipes works as well, though you might have to hem them so they don't fray. They're especially good for cleaning windows.

Hi i use steel containers for storage and old clothes as wiping clothes like old camisole, scarf etc. We had a cover for our sofa after some years i am using it as doormats. U will these kind of things a lot in indian homes. Indian culture is all about minimalism as buddha told everything around us is produced by some amount of things from nature and some human energy. So we should use things until it can't be used again. use and throw culture should be eradicated to save our earth. Happy to see lord krishna in ur kitchen make sure he doesn't eat butter secretely from ur fridge 😀. Namaskaram 🙏 from bharat ( india). Btw great video. Bless u.

Thank you for making an informative and realistic video that doesn’t alienate anyone who isn’t “zero-waste enough”. I am definitely subscribing 💚

Wow! You have a baby Krishna photo kept on the shelf. 😀

Thank you so much for all these wonderful ideas! Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?! Here I am at 68 re-learning from an Irish fairy how to better run my home! I ❤️ it!

I never even thought about the zero waste life style but I find myself already doing all of the above ... I Also use Glass jars because they last longer and protect food longer , I use coton towels everywhere, especially at the table because I was brought up that way ... I rarely use plastic anything.

i need to jump on the loose tea bandwagon. Can not believe where plastic can show up!!

I really love how to organise your items in bottles, especially in the fridge. We don't have decompose bins here, but if I have vege, fruits skins decomposes, I will keep them as my garden organic fertilizers 😊

To reduce waste I divorced my useless husband 😂

Love the aesthetic of your videos, they instantly put me in a state of relax and coziness. I find myself checking YT multiple times a week to see if your video is up in case I miss the notification. Thanks for taking the time to create them 🌿

I love the idea of zero waste and actually as I have been reading through scripture I've seen that God calls us to minimalism and for good reason! I've never felt so relaxed than I have with owning less and making less waste. Great video!

Great video! I really try to avoid plastic food packaging, but that is my biggest 'zero-waste' struggle.

you understand that the leaves of cauliflower is edible, right...wash them, chop them up and use in a stirfry ... even better than chopping them up and putting them into the compost bin... skins of things like sweet potato...wash before peeling, dehydrate them and powder them for soups etc peel of fruit...wash before peeling and most of it can be chopped finely, frozen and used as needed for biscuit flavouring or muffin flavouring or even in jams you make...

I buy lose leaf tea in little metal tins that I reuse, which is super helpful since I don't have a good build up of containers

Great tips! I do some of these but it’s always nice to get a gentle push back in the waste less direction! I go through so many sponges since I too don’t have a dishwasher and these scrubbers blew my mind! I had no idea they existed!

Love your channel. Doing my best to gradually do away with plastic and replace with glass. Thanks for your tips!

Appreciate your dedication to avoid plastic, everybody should learn to do this.

Beautiful photography too!

I watched a lot of video to prepared my own kitchen for zero waste life, this video still the best one. Really useful and helpful.

Thank you so much for getting down to the list and being so specific! Brilliant, you just gained a new subscriber.

Great tips. Your kitchen looks amazing!

Thank you for the tipp with the glass containers for the freezer! 🙏🏻

Despite a lot is already known, STILL something new! Nice video, thanks!

When I was young all of my family drank tea apart from myself so mum had a really large thermos she filled which had a pump type lid on it and she sat it on the bench to save boiling the kettle so often. We have free range chickens so they eat most of our scraps and anything else like potato peelings we put in a compost heap. We also have a worm farm which we can put vegetable scraps in too. Also old odd socks or ones with a hole are great for dusting as you can put them over your hand making it quicker and easier. xx

I was born in Moldova and my parents did it and me and my family is doing that, why so many people are trying it for first time. I like video, for me is nothing new but hope Young generation will take it)). Thank you anyway

Happy to see lord krishna in your kitchen Love from India

I love the background color on the backsplash area. And the tall jars covering the wall plugs. I try to cover mine too for esthetics .

I just loving your kitchen and the way you organised things.😍

Love all of these ideas!! I am going to start using cloth napkins instead of paper immediately.

Freeze veg off-cuts for stock. Glass jars into the freezer with some space. These are new tips for me. Thanks

This is good solid simple timely advice that people can use to save money and help the planet. My parents lived simply and did not spend money on paper towels, they reused glass jars, had a garden, used old tee shirts for rags etc. Im always amazed how people do not compost food scraps but yet they buy soil for their planting in spring. It defies logic. It is a no cost way to improve soil and save money. Such simple changes have a big impact on the earth. Now my husband and I live this very simple life. We have so little trash and don’t have a dishwasher. We have become so conscious of our waste. We even have geo thermal heat and use a super energy efficient wood burning fireplace using our downed trees from our lot. It feels so good to live this way. The $3 monthly electric statement credit we get for our hot water heater from the electric company pays for our entire monthly air conditioning bills all summer long. So glad we invested in an energy efficient system in our northern climate. .

Thanks ! I like glass wares. God bless you 🙏

Love all of the containers 😍😍😍

I don't know why, but as soon as I clicked on your video, I was overcome with an overwhelming sense of calm and contentment. Thankyou. 🧡

Thanks for wonderful suggestions 🙏👌

Being lucky enough to have a grandmother who a) had a WMF Shop and b) passed over everything to me... Never since I moved out in 1993 I had anything in plastic - despite a chopping board, which I exchanged for a bamboo one, when starting living zero waste in 2011... Its sooo easy nowadays as almost everything is available in my local organic shop for refill... Veggies and Fruits are delivered here by a local farmers cooperation every week, thex deliver what I order online... Wonderful!

love it !!

Very useful thank you, love the aesthetic 😍 very pleasant watch😊

Great tips! Thank you 😊

Love the tip about using roots for vegetable stock,that is amazing! Good use of otherwise wasted food.I have been wanting to stop buying premade broth too. I resonate with all those tips, especially condiments. I found i get overwhelmed easily, simplicity feels so much better in the end. I spent over a third of my monthly budget this month on condiments alone, including vegetable broth.I find spending on broth to be a waste, it bothers me but it makes food better.

Thanks to your advice on a previous video, I bought a hot flask, and it has been brilliant! Also the condiments, they take up so much room, even when you buy them in glass, my fridge seems full of condiments! Such a good video as always 👍

Keeping an organized fridge in general just promotes a healthy lifestyle and it helps to not buy the same products more than once.

These are useful swaps for plastic!

Thank you so much 😊 awesome love it! 👍❤️️

Hi, makes me feel very glad that I left using plastic many years ago. I think In doing fine :). And will use a thermo jar ti keep hot water all day, thanks, its a great idea!!!!

Omg..I love LOVE your baby Krishna sitting on the vent-hood! Sweet little butter thief!

Wonderful tips, thank you. The soft plastic packaging is my main issue, though I did recently purchase my oats in a large cardboard box. Unfortunately I don't have a bulk produce store near me, but I'm doing whatever I can to reduce waste. Love from Australia. 💞

Very informative video. I definitely will use some of your tips

If you're in Australian cities and can't compost, you can use the app "Share Waste" and find someone who does have a compost bin and is happy to take your waste.

I love how calming your videos are. The aesthetic is so wonderful! I was just wondering if you bought the dish scrubber online or at a shop somewhere? I am having a hard time finding one with no plastic. 😌 Keep doing what you are doing! 💚

Thank you. I have much to learn and change.

Lovely voice. Very glad for it. Thanks for the tips.

It may feel more virtuous to wash by hand, but its more wasteful. You use up to 27 gallons if water per load by hand, versus as little as 3 gallons with an energy Star-rated dishwasher 🤷 Saludos desde España

Another great video and great tips. I do most of these except I still use a sponge in the kitchen. Hard habit to give up. I love the dispenser you use for your kitchen cloths. 😊

I’m so happy that I’ve found a bunch of 0 waste you tubers, it really helps make the process of going 0 waste a lot easier😁

Great tips, thank you ☺

Ur hair gorgeous n u believe in loard krishna👍👍

I really love bal Gopal photo on the kitchen...

Thank you for sharing such wonderful ideas!!!

Very useful tips, thank you sister

kishan in your kitchen 😇😇😇🤗🤗

all great tips, thank you again for taking the time to make these videos. also your home looks so cozy and calm id love for you to share more. cheers! ^_^

Great video! Concise and well made. Thanks for the tips!

*These Tips Are GOod..* 😊❤❤

U have a baby krishna's picture in ur kitchen 😀 It's beautiful btw

I love this, but I was thinking of what happens to all our plastic food storage if we all change over to glass 🤔 As much as I love the glass look, I'm not sure I could send all my plastic ones to landfill😕

Beautiful kitchen! I like the tips and the straight to the point delivery, some KZfaqrs tend to have boring two minutes intros and dragged out explanations for obvious.

I can't believe I didn't know about this channel. Its perfect and informative and very inspiring. Thank you very much. All the love from Bogota Colombia

Where did you get your hot flask and kettle from?

I am using a worm bin in the kitchen. All of the organic waste that I can´t use to make something else is going in there. It doesn´t smell at all if closed. If opened it smells like forest soil. My worms eat the scrabs and produce worm humus which I am using to fertilize my raised vegetable beds. It consists of three floors. When the floor at the top is nearly full the bottom floor is ready to be harvested. I will harvest the worm humus and then put the now empty floor on top to continue feeding the worms with kitchen scrabs. When this floor is nearly full again the lowest floor is ready to be harvested again. And so it continues: I feed the worms in the top floor and harvest the bottom floor when the top floor is full. It is really nice and reduces my kitchen scrabs a lot because I can feed the worms everything that hasn´t been cooked, prozessed and/or spiced. In goes: Scrabs from tomatoes, old leaves of salat, scrabs of vegetables that have already signs that they are about to start rotting. And I can feed handkerchieves, kitchen tissues or even the cartons eggs come in. So: less waste and a lot of biologic fertilizer for the vegetables in my garden. :)

I was amazed to see everything on your list was our kitchen growing up (India) till the economy opened up to companies flooding the market with stuff and implicating existing ways as backward. Your tips are so common sensical & simple , and made me realize how hard it would be for some places to live with less waste! The deck's stacked against you. So nice of you to share!

Great tips! Thanks for sharing. I love zero waste topics as I am trying my best to shift our life in that intentional living direction.

Your voice sounds like you're crying 😢

SO inlove with your channel!!! (and your voice, gotta be honest)

Great tips! Thanks for sharing :)

I appreciate all of your videos.

Great tips. I pretty much do a lot of what you mentioned but you did give me some new ones. I made my own swiffer cloths out of a $3 Ikea fleece blanket. I have dogs so after swiffering , I take a cleaning brush and brush off the hair and any debris/crumbs (so it won’t clog up my washing machine. Saves a lot of money too 👍. Thanks for sharing 😊

4:22 "They were just the cheapest" tone of voice made me chuckle.

These are wonderful ! Thank you!

Lovely video. Most things I already do. But some new things too. Thanks a bunch!!!!

Thank you for this!

Nice. Good ideas

THANKS FOR THE TIPS VERY USEFUL ,AS I DID CLEANING EVERYDay 😊😊😊

Your simplicity made me your fan. Shout out from India. Krishna devotee (saw him in your kitchen)

Thank you for the video and the tips. I'm from Chile; South America, and your videos teach me a lot how to reduce and avoid the waste. I love the style of you videos. Thanks!

Love how simple you keep your explanation of each tip. Gives me more time to get started reducing my waste ^^

0 waste on 💰. Not just in the kitchen. But the rest of the 🏠 as well. Thxs 4 sharing info.📝

Great and relax video, thanks for your time, i really appreciate i’ll try not use sponges anymore! Salute from Italy!

Hello ! Thank you for posting this video . I have been doing most of these things for some time now an I have to say it’s made my life much easer an happier I even have my teenager learning these ways.

Watching this video gave me such a positive vibe. Thank you.

Your videos are always thoughtful. Thank you for sharing all useful tips

When I got my own place instead of buying new furniture I got my couch from the thrift shop and used a couch cover to make it the color I want. I know people who have gotten 3 couches since I got mine and its still just as comfortable as when I first got it. No idea how old it is. It has that old school flower print on it that all the grandmas had 😂 I love this couch man.