by Laura | Oct 17, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
Microbeads… What are they? What impact do microbeads have on the environment and our health and how you can tell if a product contains them? In this post I take a look at why microbeads may be more immediately dangerous to the environment than a discarded...
by Laura | Aug 8, 2017 | Chemical Free Living
Today I’m sharing three everyday plastic habits to kick to reduce the amount of plastics you consume and in turn, improve your health. If you didn’t jump on board the Plastic Free July movement, or you did and found yourself overwhelmed, this post is for you!...
by Laura | Aug 2, 2017 | Zero Waste Home
Today I’m sharing three everyday plastic habits to kick to reduce the amount of plastics you consume and in turn, help the environment. If you didn’t jump on board the Plastic Free July movement, or you did and found yourself overwhelmed, this post is for you!...
by Laura | Jul 18, 2017 | Global Environmental Issues, Live Lighter, Zero Waste Home
Laura chats with A Plastic Ocean film maker Craig Leeson on how plastics in our oceans are impacting our environment and health. The Plastic Free July movement is sweeping Australia and for very good reason. Our obsession with plastics, particularly single-use...
by Laura | Jul 12, 2016 | Chemical Free Living, Zero Waste Home
Plastics have been linked with obesity, early adolescence, infertility and cancer and take hundreds of years, if ever, to break down in our environment. In my last post I shared why we need to be concerned about plastics and how you can stay healthy in an increasingly...
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. 
