This Byron Bay Brand Is Making It Easy To Ditch Single-Use Plastic At Home

You'll no longer find me staring at supermarket shelves wondering which cleaning products actually work.

Our choices play a huge part in protecting the planet and as I was reflecting on my own efforts to reduce waste, I quickly realised that I was consciously purchasing plastic-free produce but was still buying household products like laundry liquid and body wash in single-use plastic.

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It felt contradictory. Kind of like if you were to destroy yourself at the gym to lose weight, only to still be consuming fast food immediately after.

So when I came across Zero Co, I was seriously excited that I could buy all my usual cleaning items whilst being planet-friendly every step of the way.

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This zero-waste company has made it their mission to rid the world of single-use plastic and clean up our oceans using a circular economy model.

Zero Co makes plant-based personal care and home-cleaning products that are grey water safe and made from already-existing plastic here in Australia.

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They even deliver their products to your door carbon negative!

But that's not all! The business runs on a closed-loop model, meaning every stage — from production to your consumption is sustainable and leaves no waste behind.

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Zero Co's Forever Bottles are made from ocean, beach and landfill plastic and the refill pouches are made from recycled materials diverted from landfill. Recycling all the existing plastic is half of the job, but ensuring consumers aren't contributing back to where it started is the other half. It's what makes these products so attractive (aside from their stellar packaging) and means we can finally say good riddance to single-use plastics. 

It works by ordering your first box of goodies which comes with a set of empty Forever Bottles, colour-matching refill pouches and a postage-paid return envelope. Once you empty the pouches, simply return them (for free) to be cleaned and refilled!

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So, it turns out Zero Co makes ditching single-use plastic in the kitchen, laundry and bathroom very possible and extremely easy. It's such a good feeling seeing their seamless reuse system in place and knowing when I'm done with the products I'm not piling them into the trash.

The Zero Co Starter Box comes with all 10 of their natural products for $159, which is a small price to pay compared to the 1 BILLION bottles Aussies buy and throw away every single year. Plus, if you get it today you'll score free shipping!

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To discover more, visit zeroco.com.au.