How to Reduce Bathroom Waste

Think about your morning routine.  You most likely spend a few minutes on your phone before getting up and heading straight for the washroom. You spend some time doing things that you may not think about like brushing your teeth, taking a quick shower, and applying deodorant.  These are things that have become second nature …

The Easy (Eco) Way to Recycle Contact Lens Cases

There are a lot of people who wear glasses today, with some opting to wear contact lenses alongside glasses or instead of glasses. As many of you are likely aware, contacts are used to correct vision, and many people choose to wear them as they offer a wide variety of benefits over glasses. For example, …

Greening Your Office Space with Plants

Greening Your Office With Plants “Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.” – Terri Guillemets When it comes to greening your office/workplace, there is no better option than plants. Aside from sprucing up decor, plants are capable of benefitting mood, relaxation, and positivity. With an increasing focus on ventilation and air …

Sharing is Always Better

We all know that for our daily lives, we need to consume various products and services. But when we access them, we rarely ask ourselves how they were manufactured, what impact they had on the environment in order to be available for consumption, and what impact they will continue to have after they are discarded. …

Reusing Containers

Before talking about some alternatives and ideas on how to reuse some items (especially containers) that we have at home to take advantage of them for longer, we must know what are the benefits that this simple action can generate. When talking about reducing the amount of solid waste and how to make better use …

Reusable Cloth Pads 101

Not only do periods suck due to their unpleasantness, they can also be a frustrating environmental predicament when considering how many disposable pads you might go through in your lifetime (reality check it is in the thousands!). If you are fed up with throwing your money away every month by using disposable pads and are …

The Impact of Plastic Bags

The Impact of Plastic Bags Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing and damaging environmental challenges. Plastic, especially single-use plastic, pollutes our marine and terrestrial ecosystems, affects the wildlife of thousands of animals and contaminates the natural resources on which we depend. Nearly 700 species, including endangered species, are known to have been affected …

Greening your Laundry Routine

By Hanna Hamblen Laundry is one of the most resource intensive chores in the home, but many people overlook it when they first start making environmentally friendly lifestyle choices. They do not realize that there are many small adjustments to your laundry routine that will help the environment. I have found that these changes are …

The Environmental impact of Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which take place the Friday after American Thanksgiving and subsequent Monday, have become an annual holiday of sorts in North America. Now spreading in many other countries around the world, the shopping holidays known for busy shopping centers, long lineups and frantic shoppers scurrying to find a good deal are …

Tips to Reduce Waste

by Cara Des Granges Did you know that Canada produces more waste than any other country? According to Andrew Sebastian, Canada's estimated total waste generation is the largest in the world with an estimated annual waste total of 1,325,480,289 metric tons. "Given Canada's population of 36.7 million, that's an estimated annual waste per capita of 36.1 …