The thin plastic bags on the roll at the grocery store’s produce section are one of the easiest single-use habits to swap out — and unlike a lot of zero-waste changes, this one doesn’t ask much of you. A small set of reusable bags lives in your tote, comes out at checkout instead of a…
There is a particular kind of smell that makes an apartment feel like a home instead of just a place you sleep — and you don’t need a candle or a plug-in to get it. Simmer pot recipes use nothing but water, a stove, and whatever fruit, herbs, or spices you already have in the…
Open a bokashi bucket for the first time and the smell surprises most people — not rot, not garbage, but something closer to sauerkraut gone slightly sharp. That single detail explains much of how this method works, and why it can handle materials such as cooked meat, dairy, and small bones that conventional home composting…
Most homemade laundry detergent recipes assume you’ve got a garage, a 5-gallon bucket, and room to store a giant batch that’ll last six months. None of that describes apartment life. This recipe is built for small-batch mixing in a mason jar, uses ingredients that are widely available at larger grocery stores, natural-food stores, and online,…
Thin plastic films — cling wrap, sandwich bags, shrink wrap, and similar single-use packaging — make up an estimated 46% of the nearly 14 million metric tons of new plastic entering the ocean each year, according to research behind a Tom Ford-backed, Lonely Whale Foundation initiative targeting thin-film plastic waste. A beeswax wrap is one…
A DIY all purpose cleaner costs under fifty cents to make, takes three minutes to put together, and cleans every surface in your apartment as effectively as any commercial product. It contains no synthetic fragrance, no harsh chemical residue, and comes in a reusable glass bottle rather than a single-use plastic one. Most commercial all…
I used to buy paper towels every two to three weeks without thinking twice about it.Then I worked out what I was actually spending. A decent roll of paper towels costs around $2 to $3. At one roll every two weeks that is somewhere between $50 and $75 a year. On something I was literally…
How apartment worm composting works Which worms are best for indoor composting How to set up your first worm bin step by step What worms can and cannot eat Common vermicomposting problems and how to fix them How to harvest nutrient-rich worm castings Let’s get started. I used to throw away over half my kitchen…
Yes, You Can Compost in a Tiny Apartment — Here’s How When I first looked into apartment composting, I assumed my kitchen would smell like a dumpster within a week. Spoiler: it didn’t. The truth is, composting in an apartment is much easier — and cleaner — than most people think, if you use the…
