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Month: November 2016

Plastic-Free Children’s Gifts That Last and Foster Learning

November 23, 2016

We’re going to start this blog post off by presenting you with a little challenge on the topic of children’s gifts: Imagine you’re walking around the kid’s section of a store, any store at all. Visualize all the colors, shapes and different products on the rows of shelves … Of all of the toys you’re…

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Microplastics Testing on the Gatineau River: Citizen Science in Action

November 23, 2016

You’re going to be hearing more and more about microplastics all over the world in the coming months and years. That’s because they are literally all over this Earth. And they are a problem that ranks right up there with climate change. Yup, our beloved Earth is overheating and simultaneously becoming layered in plastic. Warm plastic…

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Top 10 Plastic-Free Gift Ideas in Containers – You Won’t Be Able To Contain Your Excitement!

November 18, 2016

To create less mess and save on plastic packaging this year, what we are proposing here is a little outside of the box. Instead of wrapping a present, why not make the wrapping be the present itself so it doesn’t need to be covered! We have 10 exciting ways to make a meaningful present by…

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Stainless Steel Dishes: The Best Plastic-Free Option for Children

November 5, 2016

How we got our first stainless steel dishes is an interesting story. When we started Life Without Plastic in 2006, our son was only 3 years old.  I had heard about the dangers of plastics from a magazine called Mothering created by the wonderful Peggy O’Mara who was my hero at the time and still…

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