by Laura | Dec 15, 2021 | Zero Waste Home
The most wonderful time of the year is also the most wasteful, but that needn’t be the case! In this post I share five ways you can reduce your food waste this Christmas so the season is lighter on your wallet, waistline and our precious planet. Podcast: Play In New...
by Laura | Jan 5, 2019 | Zero Waste Home
If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in dumpster diving for food, you’re in the right place! In this Eco Chat I’m joined by a dumpster diving friend of mine, Dushan Popovic. We’re chatting everything dumpster diving including how to get started, the best times to...
by Laura | Dec 12, 2018 | Conscious Business, Zero Waste Home
Today you’re going to be inspired by Ronni Khan from OzHarvest. OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organization. It collects quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivers it directly to more than 1,300 charities who support people who...
by Laura | Sep 28, 2017 | Live Lighter, Sustainable Eating, Zero Waste Home
If you have a pantry that’s brimming with food, much of which that’s been sitting there for a while. Or if you regularly find yourself tossing out stale or soiled food from your pantry, then this post is for you. I’m chatting about simple actions you can take to...
by Laura | May 30, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
In a world where famine and hunger are a daily battle for millions of people, the need to reduce food waste, and indeed the concept of food waste, can be difficult to comprehend. However the statistics on the volumes of food wasted are alarming. Roughly one third of...
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. 
