THE PITS! They're a smelly bunch. Naturally, we all want our friends to stay close and our enemies closer, so have no doubt been rather UNnaturally slathering aluminium based antiperspirant deodorants on our underarms to keep the sweat at bay. Unfortunately, the toxic load on our systems from these heavy-metal-laden deodorants is hugely detrimental to our health.
These are my tips for how to drastically minimise your landfill waste. There are options for everyone from Share Waste schemes and bokashi bins, to building your very own compost bin and keeping chickens.
With an average of 1 pack per week for 1 baby (this would be more if you use wipes for messy hands and faces too) and each pack containing 60 wipes, this creates 3120 wipes in total that can only go to landfill*. Instead, I recommend using 3 packs of The Waste-Free Home reusable wipes (1 x Terry and 2 x Muslin) instead of disposable ones.
We have ditched the throw away wet wipes and now just make up a jar or container of wipes as and when we need them. Our wipes are thick and strong so the jobs that used to take up to 3-4 disposable wipes now only take 1 reusable baby wipe.
