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Wanting to reduce the amount of plastic in your home? Try out a few of our simple tips to help shed single-use plastic that won't break the bank.

Re-Cy-CleEasy as one, two, threeAh, simple as Do Re MiRe-Cy-Cle, one, two, threeBaby, you and me, girl (*sings in Jackson 5 voice) Sometimes the fruit hangs so low, it almost touching the floor, and that is what we find with this marvellous recycling game. You can define, we did 5, simple steps that carry far and wide (basically not into the plastic soup that floats in our oceans) You wanna tag along? We’ve selected our 5 simple steps, that are on fleek, on budget and good for your karma! Start with ending single-use plastic of the small bottle kind. Yes, those bottles of water you get with meal deals, on mass at your supermarket or your local shop. Instead, why not...

When we, Lyndsay and Annemarie, started out with conscious.cleaning, we made a couple of promises. Such as, there are no maximum days of holidays that you can take (wieoeeeeeee at first, but later we learned that this job “never ends” we just never want to fully switch off).  But more importantly for our product, we are never ever going to make concessions that would put finance over the environment. With that we mean for every single part of our process, including the product, packaging and even flyering, it would all either be made of already recycled materials, easy to be recycled and either infinitely recyclable or long lasting  And that is how we got to work, and it that we are so proud to say that we have these...

I guess starting this article with “did you know” does not score high on the originality rating but it’s as good a place to start as any. Are you aware that of the UK’s Household plastic waste, only 9% actually gets recycled? And of the remaining waste, a whooping 79% ends up on waste mountains in poorer countries, and inevitably at the bottom of the ocean?  We all try and do our bit, putting our waste in the recycling bin every week but hearing these stats sacred the living bejuzus out of us and really got us thinking.  So why is it that so little of our plastic waste actually gets recycled and turned into something new? It comes down to a few...

We all know reducing your carbon footprint is important and you’ve probably heard & read a lot about the topic; but how often is it really discussed? And how much are each of us actually doing?   If you’re at the kind of parties & get-togethers we’re at, the answer is rarely, if at all. And it’s not really hard to understand why. We’re just not comfortable discussing the things we're not doing or struggling to achieve. So back to the basics, what is a carbon footprint?  According to the dictionary “the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organisation or community.” So Carbon Dioxide, what is that? “a heavy...