The Story of One Family That Ditched Plastic

Going Zero is the interesting story of a family that decided to ditch plastic, after a bean bag burst in their garden, sending thousands of polystyrene beads everywhere. They shunned supermarkets (cooking all meals from scratch), bought second-hand clothes (polyester in new clothes is made from plastic) and make their own homemade cleaners.

Read more on no-dig gardening and humane slug/snail deterrents. If you live with animal friends, read up on pet-friendly gardens (some recommended flowers and fruit trees are not safe). Also avoid netting to protect food (just leave some for wildlife!)

Avoid facing indoor plants to outside gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.

Deciding to walk away from the ‘throwaway society’, today this family sends almost nothing to landfill, proving a well-lived life does not have to be ‘wrapped in plastic’.

If you ever pop round to ours and start randomly opening our kitchen cupboards, fridge or freezer, there’s food in there.

But it’s all in label-less jars, paper bags or sometimes even sacks for bulk items. At first visitors find the lack of familiar packaging quite unsettling.