by Laura | Jun 22, 2018 | Zero Waste Home
Our bathrooms often fly under the radar where plastic waste is concerned. Instead we focus on reducing plastic waste when we’re out and about by carrying a reusable coffee cup, reusable shopping bags or even a reusable straw. However there are some sneaky...
by Laura | Jun 7, 2018 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
In this post we uncover the REDcycle story and share how you can easily recycle soft plastics at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. Despite your best attempts to reduce your plastic consumption, it can be difficult to avoid plastics entirely in the modern world and...
by Laura | May 25, 2018 | Chemical Free Living
In this post I’ll share which of my favourite natural cleaning products I used to complete the exit clean on my house in our recent house move, and how they performed. Podcast: Play In New Window Subscribe in iTunes Moving house. It’s right up there as one of the top...
by Laura | May 8, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
I love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains I love her far horizons I love her jewel-sea Her beauty, and her terrors The wide brown land for me. I’ve been able to recite verse two of Dorothea...
by Laura | Apr 23, 2018 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter
When did you last purchase a new item of clothing? When did you last move an item on from your wardrobe? And where and how did you move this item on? How much of your wardrobe do you actually wear on a regular basis? I encourage you to take moment to reflect on these...
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
