by Tanya Lewis | Sep 14, 2020 | Waste Free Living
Clutter (a form of waste) can make us feel stressed, anxious and depressed, research found the levels of the stress hormone cortisol were higher in mothers whose home environment was cluttered. Source Sage Journals In 2011, neuroscience researchers using fMRI...
by Tanya Lewis | Nov 12, 2019 | Waste Free Living
Reduce is not just about reducing our consumption of plastic bags, bottles, single use cups. Reduce, comes into its own when we actively reduce the impact we have on the planet and lower our carbon footprint to stem climate change. I am writing this from a hotel...
by Tanya Lewis | Sep 5, 2019 | Waste Free Living
Repair it, don’t hoard it! In 2012 I stumbled across an article in the New York Times advocating to repair items before landfill. The Repair Café Foundation (now Repair Cafe International Foundation (RCIF), was founded by an ex-journalist Martine Postma in the...
by Tanya Lewis | Mar 18, 2019 | Waste Free Living
Ever thought about the time we waste due to poor time management? How often do we waste time on tasks that are no longer relevant to our day or tasks, when we waste time it could be the difference between boom and bust. Time spent organising, decluttering and...