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Want to take action to live with less waste and less stuff? Keen to lessen your plastic use, lower your carbon footprint and reduce your rubbish, and need to know what steps to take?

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Welcome!

Want to take action to live with less waste and less stuff? Keen to lessen your plastic use, lower your carbon footprint and reduce your rubbish, and want to know what steps to take?

You're in exactly the right place.

I’m so glad you’re here...

Find out more...

I’m so glad you’re here...

Find out more...

Welcome!

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Introducing The Less Waste No Fuss Kitchen

Simple steps to shop, cook and eat sustainably.

Whether you’re wanting to reduce your plastic and packaging, trying to lower your carbon footprint, keen to minimise your food waste or all of the above, find options to help tweak your habits and make positive changes through the food choices you make. Pre-orders receive exclusive bonus content.

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WASTELESS Course

A practical step-by-step program to halve your trash in 60 days.

Would you like to get better at recycling, and throw less stuff away? Make the world a better place? Keen to get curious and creative, connect with a whole community passionate about doing what they can to make a difference, improve your health, support independent local businesses and tread more lightly on the planet… all by reducing your rubbish and wasting a whole lot less?

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“We all make choices that have the potential to create waste every day, and the opportunity to do things differently. We can be part of the problem, or we can be part of the solution.”

Lindsay Miles

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I’m so glad you’re here!

Hello, I’m Lindsay

I help others take action to live with less plastic, less waste and less stuff. In 2012 I accepted a month-long challenge to avoid plastic, and never looked back! Now I live a zero waste and plastic-free lifestyle, and teach others the steps to start the journey too. I’m a speaker, writer, author and low-waste living advocate, sharing my journey and what I learn along the way. My passion? Sharing skills and ideas; growing community and connecting with others. Doing stuff not buying stuff.

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Shopping at bulk stores 🫙 ⠀ I first started d $Shopping at bulk stores 🫙 ⠀ I first started down this low waste lifestyle /zero waste living “thing” focussing on reducing my plastic, back in 2012. Choosing to shop at independent bulk stores that sell groceries from bulk, rather than the supermarket where everything was overpackaged in plastic, was one of the first changes I made. ⠀ And its one of those changes I made right at the start that’s stayed with me through all these years. ⠀ 🫙I love the simplicity. I love that bulk stores like @thesourcebulkfoods take up a fraction of the space that the big supermarkets take up, and yet they have all the pantry items and cleaning products I need. ⠀ 🫙I love that bulk stores taught me to cook from scratch and made me a master of making a good meal when “there’s nothing in the fridge”. It was not by intention to learn to make more food from scratch when I tried to go plastic-free, but it led me there and I’m grateful for it. ⠀ 🫙I love that I eat healthier. Partly that comes with the cooking from scratch, but also I used to buy a ton of junk food disguised as “healthy snacks”. When you bake your own you tend to makes less and you also don’t use weird fillers and gums because they aren’t ingredients you can actually buy! ⠀ 🫙I love the atmosphere. My local bulk store @thesourcevicpark is located in a busy shopping centre, but inside the store it feels like a world away from bustle outside, and the staff are genuinely interested in your day (and what recipes you’re cooking!) ⠀ Grateful for bulk stores, being able to refuse plastic and other single use packaging in my weekly shop, and support independent businesses. ⠀ #lowwasteliving #livingwithlesswaste #avoidsingleuseplastic #ecochoices$

I am so relieved that my persimmon has germinated

Can you name these five flowering/fruiting trees?

I don’t have a door from my kitchen to the outsi

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I have another book!

Introducing Less Stuff

A book about changing our relationship with our things, from a zero waste perspective

The clutter filling our spaces impacts on our productivity, stresses us out, keeps us stuck and stands in the way of the lives we dream about.

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