Come back, everybody.
So we have the zero waste
family back in town.
By the way, welcome home, everybody.
Good to see you.
I know you were travelling around
for a little bit and now you're
here to share some really good
back to school ideas because we
know it's expensive and it could be
wasteful to buy all these supplies.
So we thought, you know, you're good,
good experts on all of this.
So let's start, Frederick.
And should we start with you?
Tell us what?
What we need for back to school.
Well, we just need some basic things,
but, you know, so the.
Let's start with the binder.
But like always. Need a binder?
Now I found that binders is
something that a lot of people have
laying around so you can usually
get them used or borrow them.
But if you are buying new,
make sure it is made with paper
or cardboard because you can
when you're done with them you
can remove this part and recycle
this one which is really smart.
And then of course all the papers and
notebooks should be made with posts
as recycled paper and this one is you
have that option around now, right?
You look for recycled on that markings
exactly. Yeah you just read
the same thing with printing.
But you can find it and
few years look around.
It's like, for example,
for this binder the Bella needs.
Yeah, instead of these being plastic,
they're made of paper,
right? Why do they use plastic on those?
I never understood that
you could write on them.
You could have said exactly separate the
part to put the label in and all that.
I see Bella's got her backpack ready.
Are you ready for school?
Yes. So our motto is always borrow,
reuse what you have or buy second hand.
Or at least if you can't do any
of those by sustainable brands,
that will last you a long time.
So, for example. Backpack.
I have lifetime warranty
on it so anything breaks.
They will just fix up for free.
And it has lasted me so long.
You've had that since.
What grade would you say?
Probably 4-4. Yeah,
that's amazing and it looks
great and is very stylish.
I like that.
What is that brand?
I can't tell.
It's. Yeah, it's a Swedish brand.
Ohh nice. A Swedish brand.
And so they'll stitch it up if there's
a hole in it then OK, that's amazing.
Alright, and what do you have here?
So these are really cool pens
and when you've used them.
For school, when they're,
like all used up,
you can plant them into the ground.
You can plant them. Uh-huh.
No way. Seeds right here,
they grow up into, like, herbs, and
that's great. We here, let's put it
to the cameras and we can see there's
seeds in there. That is so cool.
So it's plant chia. OK.
And they will sprout. I love it.
And then it says here create
a home for happy bees.
That's awesome. Yeah.
And they have even made his own pencil case.
I like to make it from. Ohh.
Did you design all of that yourself?
Yes, with a little glitter, too.
It looks good. Yeah.
I mean, literally all these.
I think people have probably somewhere
lying around that you thought
maybe it's trashed thought away,
but no, you can make it look nice.
Yeah. And then I'm hungry.
So what are we
gonna do about that?
well-being a dad with three kids,
I cannot count how many lunches we've made.
So we really prioritize making
zero waste lunches for the kids.
And so if you think about snacks,
right, I think it's so easy when you're
busy just to buy prepackaged snacks,
but that creates a lot of waste.
And quite frankly, it's expensive, right?
All that way, all that packaging
costs money and he's not very healthy.
Right. Most of our grocery stores
have bulk sections now and you can
get snacks like these are pretzels,
peanut butter covered pretzels.
Really yummy. And when.
And you can just put these in
reusable bags such as these.
And it's summer time.
So our kids love sandwiches
when it's kind of warm. Yeah.
Peanut butter or almond butter
and Freddie's homemade jam.
What's this though, Noah?
This is a reusable sandwich.
The fact that we've been using
since I was a little kid,
Oh my goodness, the same one,
same one. We use it over and over
again. I cannot count how many plastic
sandwich bags that we've probably saved.
So easy to clean out. Even holding
the butter in the bottom, it's fine.
You can buy that soap and
water when it gets cooler.
We make soups and stews a lot,
and thermoses which are
which are really great.
Well, of course,
send our own kind of washable napkins,
OK, and we always send the kids
with their own cutlery, right,
bamboo cutlery that they can just.
Bring home little clips to put on
to there to put onto their bag so
the whole lunch can be 0 waste.
They can all like literally
this is all you need.
These are the only supplies.
That's the beeswax wraps,
beeswax wraps so that if we need to
wrap like fruit in there, my daughter
will make salads and different things.
So we have a Bento box that
will kind of make all the with
the different compartments.
So it's really, it's really fun
and it doesn't take as much time
as you think just to just to put
it all together in a zero waste and
then it just easily goes into
one of these. Yeah. Lunch.
Boxes, reusable lunch boxes.
I like the style for that one, too.
So this is, these are all great ideas.
And it looks like you just need
to buy these things once instead
of every school year, right?
Yeah. You want to think about
reusable instead of disposable. So.
And like I said, like James said,
most of these, like,
the thermos there that's been around
since Bella was in kindergarten,
which is like, and we just take care of it.
And they just used and, like,
imagine how much money we saved and all,
how much waste we have, you know,
diverted from the landfill,
which then leads us to what we're
gonna do in about 30 minutes.
So. Coming up here at 8:45,
we're gonna talk about saving
money when it comes to clothes,
reusable clothes for back to school.
We have some models joining us too,
and a whole line of fashion
that we're gonna get into.
So stay right here.
We'll be right back.