PLASTIC FREE JULY

Take on the month long challenge. Invite your friends. Share your commitment. Stay accountable.Use one of these images on your socials. GOOD LUCK!

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Plastic Free July - Download

Click to download free "Plastic Free July" E-Book.

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Natural Stain Removal, Clothing Whitener, & Plastic Free Laundry Hacks

While I grew up with it, I have honestly found plastic bottles of BLEACH on beaches. F THAT.

Now I use strong, NATURAL chemicals to whiten my clothes and remove stains. The main hacks are bicarb soda, salt, & lemon juice!

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Vegan Mung Bean Pancake Recipe

I hope to show how LUSH life is when you avoid all the plastic wrapped foods, plastic wrapped sauces, and food in plastic to-go containers. I have to get creative in the kitchen to stay keen on this lifestyle. My tongue likes exotic flavours and fancy, delicious dishes!

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Plastic Free Travel Tips

Traveling can put our plastic commitment to the test! We want to stay healthy, travel light, and relax on our holiday. However, with the right mindset, it can be incredibly enlightening and rewarding....

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Deodorant Recipe - Make Your Own

I used to prefer spray deodorant, but this is SO easy and works SO well, I am hooked on this DIY deo-cake (it actually smells like cake too!).

Only 3 ingredients! 4 if you fancy...

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DON'T WASH YOUR HAIR

If we refuse to eat stuff made from long lists of chemicals, why drench our head in them daily?

Much like the gut, which needs a balance of healthy bacteria for optimal digestive health, the skin is healthiest when its trillion or s bacteria, or biom, are in balance – not stripped away by soaps, blocked by antiperspirants or killed by antibacterial cleansers...

MAKE YOUR OWN CHIPS

When I quit disposable plastics, I did it for the oceans, but my tongue was not always totally on board....

Fortunately, it is quite easy to make all things SNACK-ABLE from fresh, natural ingredients. Keeping trash out of the ocean and crap out of your body.

EASY CHIPS or CRISPS in just 30 MINUTES

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KATE'S TRASH JAR

Building awareness of my trash, by boycotting "away" & throwing it in a jar instead. An inventory of “Kate’s Trash” jar reveals a shocking performance for a plastic free mermaid! Clockwise from bottom left: 1. Plastic Cup (from a gig at the beach hotel...

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MERMAID RALLY to BAN Plastic Bags

It was feeling too quiet here in Australia about a ban on plastic bags, so I dusted off the seashells and we held a rally in our paradisal ocean town of Byron Bay. It’s been a year since we walked into Parliament with 12,500+ signatures requesting a ban on plastic bags...