Violet's Vegan Comics

Tag: zero waste

  • We Love This Milk!

    * Everything you ever wanted in a milk: We order ours from Riverford every week and it’s so yummy! * Then when we’ve poured it all on our cereal or into our tea, we return the bottles and they wash and refill them 😀 * Superbly scrumptious, entirely ethical and completely cruelty-free: milk the way…

  • Plastic-Free Cake

      You know how frustrating it is when you’re doing your best to avoid plastic but even the glass bottle of organic vegetable oil has a plastic insert, plastic lid and sometimes even a plastic neck-sleeve?  Well, after spending half an hour trying to cut off this evil neck sleeve the other day I decided,…

  • We interrupt this story to bring you …. frozen greens!

    I’m thrilled to tell you that you can now get quality, organic, frozen veg packaged in nothing but a cardboard box! It’s really hard to get enough greens when you’re trying to avoid plastic – unless you can grow your own. But now that I’ve found these we can have our organic greens every day!…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 7

    Zero Waste Club Remember I wrote in my earlier plastic avoidance posts that it was impossible, in my experience, to get organic stuff (like sugar, lentils, dried fruit, nuts, pasta etc etc) that wasn’t wrapped in plastic?  Remember I said that we’d decided we had to prioritise plastic avoidance even if that meant having to…

  • Plastic Avoidance: Part 6

    Toiletries Update 23.11.21: You can get vegan plastic-free toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, toothbrushes – everything your teeth could ever need from Georganics, including cardboard-packaged tooth soap and refills. Check it out! 😀 Toothbrushes According to the Australian Environmental Toothbrush website, over 30 million toothbrushes are used and disposed of by Australians annually, amounting to approximately 1000 tonnes of…