For pb, my mom used to use the end of the jar to make peanut butter dressing for Sudanese tomato salad. She would add warm water, lemon juice, and spices and shake the jar. It was one of my favorite things to eat when I grew up.
My tip - don't throw away the inner cardboard core from your roll of toilet paper. I save them for spring time instead of buying plastic containers to start my vegetable seeds. The the germinated seeds are big enough, just plant the plant and toilet roll core in the ground. They do break down.
Speaking of rinsing out pasta jars, when I come to the end of cream in the bottle or carton I use in my pour over coffee, I put an inch of the hot coffee into container, shake it up & pour it into cup to drink. It makes it easier to clean, rinse out the bottle later because the bottles have to be clean when returning for deposit. Also, talk to your library about sponsoring a “Repair Cafe” for people to bring in broken gizmos & portable appliances to get fix (fun fact: top two items fix in Repair Cafes last year were vacuum cleaners and coffee makers). The librarian should be able to help find a volunteer group that likes to fix things. California just passed a Right-to-Law to get manuals & parts to fix things and reduce electronic waste.
We feed produce scraps and whole-grain cereals to the hamster, and the wolf and cats eat the rest. Plus, since the hamster has a completely plant-based diet and we use paper bedding, cleaning out his cage is compostable. Since my spouse and roommate both work at a college, they get first dibs on anything the college is giving away. The campus bookstore closed, so now we have 2 turning shelving units. One holds DVDs and the other holds produce, breads, and kid snacks. Last weekend, I took all the dishes to our hosting table outside, filled the kids' pool (across the yard), and filled a small laundry tub with soapy water. The kids and I spent the day playing "relay dishes," with me washing, my oldest running dishes to the pool and back to dry, and my youngest rinsing in the pool (and splashing his sister). I had to refill the pool and tub once each (plus a kettle of boiling water at one point), so all in all, we probably used about 15-ish gallons to wash nearly all the dishes in the house. It would have taken 4-5 loads in a standard dish washer, so I'm proud to say that we were almost as water efficient! Not as time efficient, though 😆
Your tip about the sauce jars and bean cans has just made me realise for the first time that other people don't actually do that!! I learned to cook from my gran and mum and they always rinsed the jars/cans and used the water in the food so I've always done the same and assumed everyone did lol. The more I think about it my grandparents lived a very zero waste life without calling it that - I guess that shows how throw-away & wasteful the world has become over the past 100 years!
The "feed to the animals" one is so nice, my family used to do that a lot when I was growing up. We had a dog who would eat practically ANYTHING except like cucumber and lettuce, so if one of us kids didn't want to finish the last few bites of the bread or something (and it would be covered in child goo so parents wouldn't want to eat it either) we would put it to the dogs food cup and she would get it with her meal.
OMG, the human food for dogs! Think that is the most wonderful thing🎉 a neighbour had put out two massive pumpkins on the curb - and I mean massive - and we cut out just one and woosh that freezer filled up. We also cooked and smashed it for our dog and she loves it ❤ happy & healthy dog, no pumpkins to dump and we save on food and dog food bills - it's a win, win, win, win! Love this series 💞
These were awesome ideas!! Ideas for living low waste for free - hypermiling while driving, driving a manual transmission vehicle if you live in an area without access to EV charging or can't afford a hybrid, parking further from the store (at the back of the parking lot close to the road), avoid drive throughs because idling your car wastes gas, turn your car off when using an ATM or waiting in a long drive through/drive up line, utilize ground shipping instead of driving a long distance just for one small errand, don't open hotel toiletries unless you actually need them, if you forget toiletries and must use the hotel ones take the hotel toiletries home with you (or to your next travel stop) and continue using them until they're all used up. Freeze bread heels or hole-y slices of bread to use for breadcrumbs or croutons. If you eat cheese, buy whole blocks of cheese because they last longer and you can cut away mold so that less cheese goes to waste overall (compared with pre shredded or pre sliced which must be thrown away if any of it has mold). Buy a half loaf or small loaf of bread if you're a small family and can't finish a whole one.
Another recycling tip, take off all the little plastic pour things on glass jars. When you recycle make sure its all one material type if its not don’t recycle them together.
These are such helpful ideas, especially the cooking ones. I've found that some traditional recipes have waste saving tips in them, so that one dish is made using the leftovers of the other dish. My current favourite is to use the last drops of pancake batter, dough or sauce stuck to the bottom of a pan to make gravy. Great series, am enjoying these tips.
Hello Emma listening I try to mend stuff sew I don’t have to toss or rag it ;) Yes I would do that with cooking and cans. some souper tips to consider 😂 take CaRe
More free ways to live zero waste: pet category 😃 I find random bags and dog poop pags on the sidewalks all the time. Use bread pags, add slip bags or any othe smaller plastic bags that otheriwise would be trash, to pick up after your pup. I have not bought dog poop bags for two years that we've had our dog due to this hack. 🙌
I'm seeing some future Instagram "that boy" influencer vibes for Denahi! I'm at a place that requires us to separate the plastic from paper (including cardboard boxes)... My aunt claims that the TetraPak oat milk packs belong to the plastic, but I thought they were paper... Is there a way to find out? (the local recycling facility does not help at all in that aspect)
denahi is in so much of my IG content haha I just posted a video of him today! Tetrapak is paper-plastic combo and does not go with either paper OR plastic. It is recycled on it's own!
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For pb, my mom used to use the end of the jar to make peanut butter dressing for Sudanese tomato salad. She would add warm water, lemon juice, and spices and shake the jar. It was one of my favorite things to eat when I grew up.
Omg so tasty! Love that idea :)
My tip - don't throw away the inner cardboard core from your roll of toilet paper. I save them for spring time instead of buying plastic containers to start my vegetable seeds. The the germinated seeds are big enough, just plant the plant and toilet roll core in the ground. They do break down.
omg yes! They also make great firestarters!
They can be used for all sorts of crafts too! See if your local elementary school takes them as donations
woah!!! @@film9491
@@film9491 for hygiene reasons, schools in my state do not take TP cores
Speaking of rinsing out pasta jars, when I come to the end of cream in the bottle or carton I use in my pour over coffee, I put an inch of the hot coffee into container, shake it up & pour it into cup to drink. It makes it easier to clean, rinse out the bottle later because the bottles have to be clean when returning for deposit.
Also, talk to your library about sponsoring a “Repair Cafe” for people to bring in broken gizmos & portable appliances to get fix (fun fact: top two items fix in Repair Cafes last year were vacuum cleaners and coffee makers). The librarian should be able to help find a volunteer group that likes to fix things. California just passed a Right-to-Law to get manuals & parts to fix things and reduce electronic waste.
omg that's genius!! on my way to my library!
For pumpkins, I take the seeds and roast them with EVOO and garlic salt w/ spices in the oven until they are crisp - Yummy Snack!
yummmm they're so good!
We feed produce scraps and whole-grain cereals to the hamster, and the wolf and cats eat the rest. Plus, since the hamster has a completely plant-based diet and we use paper bedding, cleaning out his cage is compostable.
Since my spouse and roommate both work at a college, they get first dibs on anything the college is giving away. The campus bookstore closed, so now we have 2 turning shelving units. One holds DVDs and the other holds produce, breads, and kid snacks.
Last weekend, I took all the dishes to our hosting table outside, filled the kids' pool (across the yard), and filled a small laundry tub with soapy water. The kids and I spent the day playing "relay dishes," with me washing, my oldest running dishes to the pool and back to dry, and my youngest rinsing in the pool (and splashing his sister). I had to refill the pool and tub once each (plus a kettle of boiling water at one point), so all in all, we probably used about 15-ish gallons to wash nearly all the dishes in the house. It would have taken 4-5 loads in a standard dish washer, so I'm proud to say that we were almost as water efficient! Not as time efficient, though 😆
wow that's awesome! Love these ideas :)
Your tip about the sauce jars and bean cans has just made me realise for the first time that other people don't actually do that!! I learned to cook from my gran and mum and they always rinsed the jars/cans and used the water in the food so I've always done the same and assumed everyone did lol. The more I think about it my grandparents lived a very zero waste life without calling it that - I guess that shows how throw-away & wasteful the world has become over the past 100 years!
right! it's wild how wasteful people can be, or rather, how unwasteful most people are without realizing it!
The "feed to the animals" one is so nice, my family used to do that a lot when I was growing up. We had a dog who would eat practically ANYTHING except like cucumber and lettuce, so if one of us kids didn't want to finish the last few bites of the bread or something (and it would be covered in child goo so parents wouldn't want to eat it either) we would put it to the dogs food cup and she would get it with her meal.
Awesome! And did you hear the world's oldest dog that just passed away in Portugal at the age of 31, ate human food!
@@KS-jf2jf that is such an i testing fact! Sad that the dog passed away though 😢
right! My dog eats all the scraps that are safe and healthy for him and he's a thriving 9 year old!
woah!!! @@KS-jf2jf
Whenever a produce bag enters my house, I save them to use as a glove when pumping gas and then dispose of them afterwards.
amazing !!
OMG, the human food for dogs! Think that is the most wonderful thing🎉 a neighbour had put out two massive pumpkins on the curb - and I mean massive - and we cut out just one and woosh that freezer filled up. We also cooked and smashed it for our dog and she loves it ❤ happy & healthy dog, no pumpkins to dump and we save on food and dog food bills - it's a win, win, win, win! Love this series 💞
wow that is amazing! I'm getting ready to process out pumpkins for my dog to have all winter :)
The regular cake cones are like 20 calories! If you’re already eating ice cream, what’s another 20 calories? It’s almost nothing. Good tip!
that's why I say I hate diet culture!
These were awesome ideas!! Ideas for living low waste for free - hypermiling while driving, driving a manual transmission vehicle if you live in an area without access to EV charging or can't afford a hybrid, parking further from the store (at the back of the parking lot close to the road), avoid drive throughs because idling your car wastes gas, turn your car off when using an ATM or waiting in a long drive through/drive up line, utilize ground shipping instead of driving a long distance just for one small errand, don't open hotel toiletries unless you actually need them, if you forget toiletries and must use the hotel ones take the hotel toiletries home with you (or to your next travel stop) and continue using them until they're all used up. Freeze bread heels or hole-y slices of bread to use for breadcrumbs or croutons. If you eat cheese, buy whole blocks of cheese because they last longer and you can cut away mold so that less cheese goes to waste overall (compared with pre shredded or pre sliced which must be thrown away if any of it has mold). Buy a half loaf or small loaf of bread if you're a small family and can't finish a whole one.
these are AMAZING thank you, Ashley!
This episode is one of my favorite in this series so far. I had no idea about the tree roots or cleaning hiking shoes.
Lot's of oddballs in this one that most people don't think about!
Another recycling tip, take off all the little plastic pour things on glass jars. When you recycle make sure its all one material type if its not don’t recycle them together.
omg YES!! thank you!
These are such helpful ideas, especially the cooking ones. I've found that some traditional recipes have waste saving tips in them, so that one dish is made using the leftovers of the other dish. My current favourite is to use the last drops of pancake batter, dough or sauce stuck to the bottom of a pan to make gravy. Great series, am enjoying these tips.
woah how interesting, thank you so much!
Love this kind of videos 🎉❤
omg thank you!
I deliberately grab extra napkins to put in my car, been a glove box staple since I was little lol
the best!
Hello Emma listening I try to mend stuff sew I don’t have to toss or rag it ;) Yes I would do that with cooking and cans. some souper tips to consider 😂 take CaRe
wow!
I love these tips. Has taking the stairs where possible been covered to save electricity on the lift/elevator?
omg I think so? Let me check, if not I'll add it :)
More free ways to live zero waste: pet category 😃 I find random bags and dog poop pags on the sidewalks all the time. Use bread pags, add slip bags or any othe smaller plastic bags that otheriwise would be trash, to pick up after your pup. I have not bought dog poop bags for two years that we've had our dog due to this hack. 🙌
amazing tips, thank you!
I use it for cat litter, I also use paper bags, small ones.
great idea! I love using them for litter too @@anaalves3658
Great video as always thanks! I enjoy your vibe
thanks for being here :)
When is your holiday sustainable shopping video coming?
soon! The blog post should be on my website next week and the video comes out the 29th!
My boyfriend is not zero waste but he is stingy so talking about saving money is the way I convince him to do some things
Me too!
stingy can be zero waste for sure!
Good idea!
:) @@sustainfem
my family used to use the last of our chocolate syrup bottle to make chocolate milk (not anymore because we don't drink chocolate milk that much)
omg tasty idea, love that!
I'm seeing some future Instagram "that boy" influencer vibes for Denahi! I'm at a place that requires us to separate the plastic from paper (including cardboard boxes)... My aunt claims that the TetraPak oat milk packs belong to the plastic, but I thought they were paper... Is there a way to find out? (the local recycling facility does not help at all in that aspect)
denahi is in so much of my IG content haha I just posted a video of him today! Tetrapak is paper-plastic combo and does not go with either paper OR plastic. It is recycled on it's own!
Du kannst natürliche Konfetti aus Laub machen indem Du mit dem Locher aus den Blätter Konfetti ausstichst...
You can make natural confetti out of leaves by cutting confetti out of the leaves with a hole punch...
yes i love that idea! @@mirisunshine1981
Do you use the app Treecard? It’s pretty neat
YES I LOVE IT!
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your weekly comments make my week every time :)
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thank you!
Or that have gender reveals. It’s definitely one of the most asinine ways of wasting money for no reason other than gossip fodder.
omg youre so right!