Zero Waste

Recycling plastic is a good thing. However, stopping the cycle — and the plastic waste — before it starts is better.

Given how many plastic products we buy every day, it’s hard to think about cutting plastic out of your life.

Back home in Silver Lake, we experimented with going plastic-free for about six weeks. How hard could it be, right? This is central Los Angeles, where plastic straws rank with cigarette butts as a social taboo.

All food generates greenhouse gases to reach our plates, but when nearly a third of it is thrown away or wasted, does that mean we could be doing more to protect the climate?

The kitchen is one of those areas that just accumulates junk, and I've done my best to streamline. Here's the ultimate list of what I'm hiding in my drawers. 

Shopping for food can be one of the most wasteful parts of our lives — here are some tips and tricks for going waste-free at the grocery store.

I tried the ten most popular zero waste shampoos, which one is the best?!

The bathroom may be the smallest room in the house but man-oh-man can it be wasteful! The average woman puts on 12 products in the morning before she leaves the house, but we typically have a lot more in our cabinets, under our sinks, and in the shower.

This Zero Waste Skincare and Makeup routine is the best way to look and feel beautiful without sending any waste to landfill.

You can’t call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still bringing your lunch to work in single-use sandwich bags or wrapping bowls with plastic.

Never buy hair elastics, coffee filters, or plastic sandwich baggies ever again.

It happens to many—you’ve reached the bottom of a chip bag and it’s time to toss it. But where does it go? The trash can or the recycling bin? Thinking it’s the sustainable, eco-conscious thing to do, in the recycling bin it goes with the hopes it will be recycled.

A new crop of stores are offering a zero-waste alternative.

They’re called refill stations. You bring your empty containers and fill them back up.