Blog

18 TIPS FOR SAVING PAPER

18 TIPS FOR SAVING PAPER How can you cut down on paper waste? I’d like to answer that question today. Because paper is made of wood, a valuable raw material. As humans will consume more and more consciously and without plastic in the coming decades, more paper will be needed. We can offset the increased demand for wood by saving […]

8 IDEAS FOR A SUSTAINABLE, PLASTIC-FREE PARTY

8 IDEAS FOR A SUSTAINABLE, PLASTIC-FREE PARTY Celebrating without plastic is easy! Regardless of whether you are a host or a guest:  you can do without a lot of plastic waste at parties and thus celebrate sustainably.  Because after beach and garden parties or just after having a barbecue, a lot of plastic waste is usually left behind. Now transfer […]

REUSE FOR LESS WASTE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

REUSE FOR LESS WASTE IN EVERYDAY LIFE Reusing things is an essential part of the zero-waste lifestyle and a basic rule of thumb with which you produce significantly less waste in your daily life. Today I would like to show you what you can reuse and to what extent that helps you live without plastic. WHY REUSE THINGS? If you […]

Wrapping Gifts Plastic-Free

Wrapping Gifts Plastic-Free Wrapping gifts without plastic – that makes sense! Because where a lot of gifts are wrapped, there is also a lot of plastic waste. Gift wrapping creates a wonderful moment but is superfluous afterwards. Therefore, you need to be careful to remove unnecessary material from your gifts and let your creativity run free. I have come up […]

FOLD PLASTIC-FREE GARBAGE BAGS MADE OF NEWSPRINT

FOLD PLASTIC-FREE RUBBISH BAGS OUT OF NEWSPAPER Trash bags and other plastic bags are still a big problem for our environment. Today I will show you a way to fold garbage bags without plastic. Now I will give you some simple folding instructions with which you can make a garbage bag with an old newspaper. You also don’t need glue for this. An old newspaper is enough to be able to fold the garbage bags from the newspaper. Here we go! WHY FOLD PLASTIC-FREE […]

Plastic-free household: Where is plastic everywhere?

Plastic-free household: where is there plastic everywhere? Plastic is ubiquitous these days. It has infiltrated so many everyday products, even where you would never have guessed. So today, we want to discover some of these “plastic hiding places” and at the same time show you greener alternatives for a plastic-free home.  Unfortunately, plastic can be found everywhere, be it in […]

Alternatives to toilet paper

Alternatives to toilet paper Everyone uses it; hardly anyone questions it: toilet paper. You can find out here if this is necessary and what alternatives are available. The role of the toilet paper after each visit to the bathroom is as natural to us as the air we breathe. And so, each of us uses an average of about 20,000 […]

Carbon: The challenge for recycling companies

Carbon: the challenge for recycling companies Carbon is a high-tech plastic that is just as suitable for car and bicycle construction as it is for the production of fibre concrete or rotors for wind turbines. But the material is difficult to remove and can even damage waste incinerators. Recyclers are concerned about the proliferation of lightweight carbon components from automobiles […]