10 WEIRD AF Zero Waste Swaps I ACTUALLY DO ALL THE TIME | sustainable habits & hacks

Hi friends! Hope you're doing super swell on this fine quarantine day! Here are some strange/gross/I can't believe I'm admitting to this on the internet things I do to minimize my waste lol. Let me know what yours are!!! Group inspo :)

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Hello! My name is Christie. My middle name is Sedona. I'm from Montreal, Canada, and now live in Seattle. I live a vegan, and mostly zero waste lifestyle. I'm very passionate about wellness, fitness, mama earth, self care and ethical fashion. I'm over the moon happy to be on this journey with ya!

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[SedonaChristina]

y'all! There are so many good recommendations in the comments that are making me so giddy and warming my heart! ECO CREW!!! Dang I'm feeling v inspired to take my "eco-habits" to the next level. Thank you to everyone for caring about your impact, and doing little acts of kindness for mama earth (and simultaneously saving that $$$ dough, am I right??)! And thank you for being here in this little corner of the internets. I dunno what I did to deserve that. (And I'll stop myself here with the cheesy-ness lol shedding a quick tear here tho)

I hope you're having a scrumptious, healthy and happy quarantine day! And if you happen to be an essential worker right now, THANK YOU!! Truly. You're a dang rockstar, and I am so grateful for you. This is a weird place to say that, but I will shout it from the rooftops gosh dang it!!

much love. Sending anyone reading this a big virtual hug. Thank you for being uniquely you. K Happy hump day! xo

[CassiFaith]

I have a betta fish whose water needs to be changed weekly so I collect all his dirty fish water and give it to my plants! My plants love it because his dirty water has lots of great fertilizing agents in it!

[MissCarlyita]

I like to freeze my old coffee in ice cube trays then when I want an iced coffee, plop in some coffee cubes, pour fresh coffee overtop. BAM iced coffee without being watered down!

[kristiesue]

Regarding the toilet paper... if you smoosh the roll so that it is oblong before you put it on the roll holder, it doesn’t spin freely and everyone in the house uses less 😃

[kaitlyncook]

My mom taught me to iron tissue paper from gifts and reuse the tissue paper and gift bag. I'm pretty sure we have used the same boxes and bags for Christmas for years.

[somedude]

my weirdest thing is probably that i save dryer lint, extra strings, packaging (like bubble mailers mostly), etc and use it to make pillows for my rooster. hes a rescue and has lived inside his whole life, so he has a little bed that i made using an old cardboard box, and then stuff whatever i can find into a piece of scrap fabric as a pillow. they get really gross after a while and you cant really clean it, so they do eventually end up in the trash, but i used to just buy him stuffed animals to sleep on so this is a lot better

[suzannerekseom]

I am always so shocked when I see a YouTube and they say like "this is such an old shirt, like 2 years". I mean, serieus. My oldest pieces are probably more than 10 years old (when I stoped growing).

[katzenlady]

I'm actually doing a lot of these things.
Additional things that I do:
I water my plants with the water I used to boil potatoes. When I print something at work and need to cut it, I keep the small parts to write down my shopping list. And when I don't like the snacks I bought, I just bring them to work and put them on the kitchen table with a note 'I bought some snacks to share' (don't tell it my coworkers 😁)
Hope my English wasn't too bad. Greetings from Germany 🙂

[Kaitlin_Jo]

I live in a college town and people ALWAYS will throw perfectly good stuff away at the end of the year! I love dumpster diving! Last year I found a perfectly good desk (and it was a cute white one)! So I took it home!

[krismieko]

if im with a friend and their clothes rips or something and theyre like darn its ruined, if i see them later i ask if i can use it for scrap fabric. most of the time they say yes and later on i can surprise them with a small bag or utensil holder or something so they still can use it. i find a lot of people are emotionally attatched to their clothes so theyre happy to get more use out of it.

[doodle]

hi i am an indian and i know its like a joke of how frugal indians are. theres a joke of how when we buy a t shirt first the dad wears it then the kid wears it then it turns into a rag then a mop untill it disintegrates into air lol. so same

[canamcghee]

love these tips! i just wanted to add to the note of washing surfaces: if your household has residents with food allergies, washing off counters and dishes and other surfaces with more than just water is absolutely crucial (even in times of non-pandemic).

[bealivebefree]

I save the little sticker that comes on produce ( apples, bananas, etc) and use them to clean up hair. I have long hair and it sheds so those stickers help me keep the bathroom cleaner.

[meln]

On the hoarding jars front - ask a locally refillary if they will take them for their customers. My local one will take them, sanitize them and offer them to customers for free to try small amounts or if they forgot their jars. Super awesome! I have a bag to drop off once this "slow down" is over. Also, for boxes, I am guilty too, I have a flattened stack of diaper boxes under the bed, but man they come in handy. They are subbing for my reusable bags right now when doing pickups for food from the local farmers. Stay safe.


Also, as for cooking - have you heard of residual cooking? They taught it in the great war and depression for saving on cooking fuel, and you turn off your heat source near the end of the cooking, and let the hot pan or pot finishing cooking with the residual heat left. Works really well and saves money - boom, mind blown.

[jturner]

On Friday nights my family would go “howling”. We would drive around looking for furniture or things to reuse in our home. It’s one of my favorite memories. 😂

[nicolelemon]

One small way I save water: I give my dog fresh water every day, instead of dumping any water down the sink she didn't drink I will use it to water my plants.

[doodle]

ah the washing the utensils with only water thing is also very indian. here's how we decide whether we wash it water or soap.
theres this concept of jootha (the closest thing i could find in english is ort)
so if your saliva or saliva hands have touched the utensils its jootha. i eat from a spoon / plate its jootha. i touch my mouth to the bottle its jootha.
so like when you're preparing food you don't go double dipping etc to avoid jootha. we avoid jootha by drinking water without touching you mouth (you tilt your head up drop water from an inch height to your mouth. you could also do the same with spoons )
so if you've just chopped vegetables etc you don't wash the utensils with soap. so the bottle you have'nt touched with your mouth you don't wash and its pretty clean and it never smells untill you touch your mouth to it. tmi but yeah its a very widespread concept here
like the oats you soaked it was never jootha so its fine i guess if you don't use soap. we've been doing it for centuaries even in covid and well we don't get sick
(edited also if it has oil you wash it )

[emileegaitten]

One time my roommate (who rarely cooks) bought 6 gigantic sweet potatoes and let them sit on the counter for weeks and weeks. One day I noticed the trash was really heavy. There were 6 sweet potatoes with a few sprouts each, all sitting at the bottom of the trash. So I took them out of the trash, peeled them and froze them and I’ve been gradually eating them ever since.

[Leabers]

Ok here's a weird one, thoes green flip lids from Shakey pizza cheese can screw onto a mason jar perfectly so I always keep them and use them for flip lids for beans rice or other dry goods storage.

[emmabetterley-dow]

My family occasionally does a “Swap” where we will all get together with things we no longer want or use, and we lay them out on tables and display them and then we go through and take turns taking items that we want! It’s not so realistic right now with COVID, but I look forward to the day that we can do this again :)