Dying thing is a great upcycle! it gives a whole new vibe and it can be very cheap. I loved the silicon wraps!

the mini paintings on the doors are too cute

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Hydraulic struts are wonderful. 😎🙃

Next time try to pour boiling water. The wax will melt and float. Wait until the water is cold and the wax is hard, then just take it out 😊

I like the crocheted thing you used for your fruit. Very creative😮!

i would be so excited to try the beauty oil! I’ve been reading up on using oil as a natural moisturizer and i think it would work really well on my skin

I like the idea of toothpaste tabs but a tube of paste (Toms or David’s) will last 6+mos so I can’t justify the high cost of tabs even to try out. I like my bamboo brush but haven’t yet tried a plastic free bristle one. I switched over to a wooden hairbrush and it was the BEST choice for my hair plus plastic free. I swap back and forth between Earthling bars and commercial curly hair products, it depends on my mood but much like toothpaste it takes about 6+ mos to use up a bottle of shampoo (I’ve gotten down to 1 wash a week regularly and occasionally 2) so I am not feeling guilty about it lol.

I think “necessary” depends on the individual. Personally I 100% would consider the bed hydraulic as necessary since it is a daily use. I often have the mentality of “if it works just make do” which drives my fiancé crazy lol, but there is no reason we should put up with daily annoyances and inconveniences if we have the money to fix the problem

Awesome… I refused to throw away my fur-baby Indy Rommel 🐶Pet Stroller . My mom sewn parts of the zipper (that was not working) & left a gap for her to peek out. 🙌🙏😇❤️🐾🐶 Thanks for inspo!!!! Happy 4th July

This is so exciting! It looks very cozy now! (Sidenote - I'm from Virginia, and I can't imagine it being 40 degrees in the morning in early summer!)

I appreciate your laundry detergent review videos. Might you ever do a review video on hand soap refill tablets?

I like that you are using the full surface area of the paper.

Also fyi, darn tough sources most (i think maybe all?) Of their wool from american farmers! In fact, some sheep we had grazing at the sustainable ag research farm i work at has some of their wool sent to darn tough! Cant speak for all farmers semding to darn tough, but these were very healthy, happy, well taken care of sheep with responsible grazing management, owned by a farmer who clearly cares dearly for them.

It would be cool if you did a video on the environmental impact of war. I've been reading a bit about it recently due to current events. You don't have to focus on any particular war (if you don't want to get demonitized).

We live in a town our house is on a 50ft by 100 ft lot and we have a 16 by 50ft garden the side of our house, we cloth diapered 4 kids, cloth napkins , paper towels, old clothes that cant be repaired went to making quilts so all out blankets are made, i also take old sweater and make mittens and hats for winter for the kids, we garage sale alot , if i can do it working full time/college fulltime and 4 kids anyone can if they choose to .😊

Good luck everyone!! 💙🌎♻️😊

Baking mat Oil spray bottle Silicone zipped bads Kitchen cloth and towels Stainless or glass water bottles kitchen jars and food storage containers Plastic wrap and foil still searchin

I try my best to do eco swaps once the plastic ones are done, but it is so expensive in Africa 😕 I like most of what you said, but bleach (I have germ ocd) and picking things off the ground is a bit much. If you do use a dryer, aluminum foil balls work great 😊

right, like you're still going to have waste, recycling is NOT 0 WASTE WHATSOEVER there is still so much waste so much processing involved it's just trying to conserve material. I will never understand why we lost using personal jars and whatnot

ENTER HERE: All you have to do is fill out the Google Form: forms.gle/KaFonG4GT8H7nNf16 They're also on sale for PFJ! www.plaineproducts.com/ref/thesimpleenvironmentalist/ FIVE of you will win some of my favorite Plaine Products that I use every single day: - 1 shampoo - 1 conditioner - 1 lotion - 1 beauty oil Rules: - not affiliated with KZfaq - giveaway closes July 4th - winners will be announced and contacted July 5th - winners must have a US shipping address

when i was a kid in the 80's and 90's, the mantra was the 3 R's . Reduce , Reuse, Recycle. somehow we lost the first 2 over the years....

But isnt shipping contributing to carbon emissions?

So how do I get my Pepsi?

I tried them once it was a travel-sized bottle of their shampoo, I selected the no scent option but because of the aluminum.. the one bottle I had a lingering scent whenever I uncapped it. It wasn't bad though worked well with my hair Wish the company had a bigger bottle-size like an 40oz option, that's my biggest wish. At the moment I've just been refilling my old shampoo bottle at a Zero waste refill store,the only con is not knowing the ingredients in the formula though, my local store owner doesn't want folks to know the brand she's been given the large shampoo jug from.

We call ourselves low waste but actually do most of these. The disposable cutlery prices were ridiculous. I got a fancy boxed cutlery set 27 years ago for $249AUD. They were half price at the time. It's an 8 person setting and we're still using them. A few family members thought we were being ridiculous having such a fancy set for everyday use but are we ridiculous for saving an incredible amount of money by not replacing plasticware daily? They're not into being eco/low/zero waste so I'm only referencing $$$ for this example. Why use rubbish/garbage bags when some things you buy do not come in sustainable packaging? We have wheelie bins for rubbish so do not need big rubbish bags. Instead, we use things such as bread bags, or bags for frozen foods. You already have them so why not use them for things that cannot be recycled, reused or composted.

Tiichoo menstrual underwear can be dried in the dryer.

Can you post the info in your comments? I can’t find the giveaway details! I’ve been really wanting to try this brand!

I go out and I buy soda cans because I want to drink soda. Recycling is just a bonus. I’m going to buy the stuff for this if there’s a way to recycle it or not. I’m not basing my purchases off what is recyclable and what isn’t.

I love that I’ve still got muslin cloths from when my kids were babies (they’re 13, almost 12 and 10), they were from my sister (who has daughters (almost 16 and 14) but she got them from my cousins (and their kids are 25, 24, 24 and 21!) and I’m fairly sure they weren’t new to them!!! I use them like you’d use kitchen roll or tea towels

I love Pronounce lavender

I was looking at laundry sheets to reorder and this popped up before I got around to it. Thank you for the recommendation

I totally get what you're saying. However, my love for Dr. Pepper might be a little too strong to get on the bandwagon for this one. Dr. Pepper cans for the win. 😁

After I’m done with my last pack of sheets I’m trying a powder. I can’t remember if you review Blueland, I’ll have to go back and look. But Meliora, Charlie’s Soap and Mollys were on my list to look into. The one thing I read about Charlie’s soap is to use a 2nd rinse cycle to get out any leftover powder. Seems wasteful on water and kinda defeats part of the purpose of using it. With everyone talking about Meliora, I think I’ll give that serious consideration. Thanx for all the hard work!

I looked into the TM laundry sheets as they piqued my interest and the first ingredient is an alternative name for sodium laurel sulfate. So not the best. Sigh. I'll keep looking. Also I found it scammy that it shows price per load being what it would be if you used 1/2 sheet yet the instructions say use a full sheet and for a boost use two. lol So it's 25 cents a load if you get the 3 pack, 30 cents a load for the single pack, yet they say .15 per load. Ya gotta watch marketers. lol Oh well, if you find a better sheets one, let us know. I'm interested.

A lot of things come with those silica gel packets and a couple could be tossed into the powder to keep it from clumping I would think.

i thankfully live somewhere where the recycling rate for cans is almost 100% (and generates jobs, like, a lot of them). while lower consumption is still ideal for anticapitalist reasons, i am happy about it anytime i can drink canned stuff. veey proud of my city for that one :)

The bleaching process of paper (happens to almost all industrialized paper) has the byproduct of Dioxins. These Dioxins are a strong carcinogen also causing reproductive destruction. Tankers of this chemical were in the port of my hometown and all spilled into our waterways. The site is several years old but still a national priority concern on the EPA's toxic Superfund sites, dangerous to human health. The locals don't even know about this, and fish and feed their families game caught from these waterways.

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Aluminum cans are actually the only thing that are reliably and efficiently recycled. Plastic is usually baled and eventually tossed into landfills or the ocean because recycling it is more expensive than making new plastic.

I’m going to try Meliora after I run out of my laundry sheets!

I use Homexcel laundry unscented sheets. they're currently on sale so they are .04

I wish there were more options in Brazil.

When I looked for laundry sheets tm, the site for them says it does have pva. It just lists it at the end as Poly (Vinyl Alcohol)

Reusing glass bottles is nice because glass cannot rip open, the light wind will not blow it away, and bugs cannot chew through it.

I got a LUXE bidet for less than $30 from Walmart and it has been great. I now wish everywhere had one

Have you looked into Happi Earth? It is an Australian brand of concentrated soapnut derived detergent. I ordered some to try and have used it for 2 moderately dirty loads, it worked well but it would be great to see your take.