Married with two kids, Emma from south east England, gives us the low down on buying, owning, running and living with a Hybrid...

Here at Plastic Free Home, we’re huge admirers of Herefordshire-based Two Farmers Crisps. Firstly, as they’re delicious, but more...

The growing awareness of the plastic problem and the issue of waste and pollution more widely has seen a slowly growing number of plastic...

With the aim of clearing up any confusion and dispelling a few myths around waste disposal, recycling and the plastic problem, we...

Interested to know what the supermarket you shop at has to say about the environment, their impact upon it, and how they plan to tackle...

It's a while now since we stepped up our efforts to significantly reduce the amount of plastic we use at home so we thought we'd take...

This is going to be one of our shorter blogs, as the message is a very simple one. Cotton buds. Many of the leading brands are now making...

Supermarket giant Tesco has been in touch directly, to tell us about the company's aims for 2019. And, on the face of things, it sounds...

Today we visited a new plastic free shop, Scoop, that has opened in Fleet in Hampshire. The shop is the brainchild of Katherine Cottrell,...

Walkers kindly responded following our recent blog article on their recently launched crisp packet recycling scheme. It doesn’t really...

I’m going to address this to all crisp manufacturers, but specifically Pepsico-owned Walkers (Lay's in other countries), having been...

According to the UK Government, we used over 7.6 billion ‘single use’ plastic carrier bags nationally in 2014. Or approximately 140 bags...

Christmas trees If you’re getting rid of your real Christmas tree soon, as the festive season draws to a close, please ensure that you...

Many of us would be forgiven for assuming that tea bags have long been biodegradable and something that we could throw in our compost...

Their respective recent speeches, among the most poignant, eye opening and important I have heard, took place at the 2018 United Nations...

Whether you’re getting rid of used Christmas wrapping paper or stocking up in the sale for next year, ‘can wrapping paper be recycled?’...

In the UK we use over 40 billion drinking straws annually according to research commissions by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). That’s a...

It’s a question that gets asked regularly. “Can I put this in the compost bin?” Composting of course provides free fertiliser for the...

Wet wipes - what’s in a name? Okay, so let’s take a look at disposable wipes. Whatever you want to call them… wet wipes, baby wipes, make...

It goes without saying that we'd love to hear your ideas, about changes you've made/plan to or about something useful you've stumbled...