Check out these FREE, printer friendly (low colour) activity sheets for World Sustainable Toy Day! Investigate what materials your favourite toy is made of, match the broken toy with the repair method, make a sustainable Christmas wish list, and loads more activities to think about toys and the environment! Go ahead and use for yourself and/or your organisation - share and tag us in social media posts: @worldsustainabletoyday and @ecosplat DOWNLOAD HERE   ..read more

Easter holidays are almost here! Check out these crafting ideas  Easter egg pockets What you will need: EcoSplat reusable water balloons Paper Scissors Stapler Chocolate!   Be sure to check out our blog with water balloon games for the Easter holidays!  ..read more

In episode eight of So Circular Anthea and Helen talk about the effect of Covid-19 lockdowns on the environment.  They talk about improved air pollution, pop-up bike lanes and the downward creep of our environmental expectations.  It originally aired in 2020 on Plains FM 96.9 and was brought to you by Remix Plastic, Plains FM with sponsorship from The Rubbish Whisperer and support from NZ on Air. So Circular is a radio show/podcast hosted by EcoSplat co-founders, Anthea and Helen, that discusses sustainability and circular economy. It provides individuals ways th ..read more

We decided to have a water fight comparing magnetic reusable water balloons with EcoSplat! There were many advantages to EcoSplat including: ? More ecofriendly packaging - the EcoSplat box is fully recyclable and compostable, is designed to not have any glue and can be repurposed into gift tags or other crafts. ? EcoSplat are super fast to 'fill', just dunk and throw! ? EcoSplat can be thrown multiple times, meaning you don't have to go to the water after each throw = massive advantage! The opponent using magnetic balloons had to throw and then go back to the 'watering hole', mak ..read more

Sometimes we hear the claim that single-use water balloons are biodegradable but is this true? Is there really no harm in leaving millions of pieces of water balloons littering our gardens and beaches? Single-use water balloons are made of latex which comes from the sap of the rubber tree. To make this natural product into an elastic, rubbery, coloured balloon lots of chemicals need to be added including sulphur, heavy metals, plasticizers and pigments. The end result is a long way from the original natural latex.     So what does happen to the coloured rubbery pieces once they are ..read more

Ever wondered what the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are and how businesses can use them to focus their mission and make business decisions? Read on to find out how EcoSplat's business activities aligns with the UN SDGs and helps us to measure our impact. What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals? The Sustainable Development Goals are an urgent call to action by all countries to work in a global partnership for the peace and prosperity for people and the planet. They recognise that ending poverty, improving health and education and reducing inequality has to go hand-in-hand ..read more

It's nearly 2023 and so time for a whole of lot 'how to be more sustainable next year' blogs. New Year resolutions are hard to keep and we don't want to add more stress to your life so we've picked changes that will make the biggest positive difference to the environment. Here's our top 5 list of super high impact resolutions - Happy New Year! #1 Scrap Food Waste Reducing food waste has been identified as potentially the single biggest way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Production of food uses a lot of resources including seeds, water, fertiliser, hours of labour, transport and ref ..read more

In episode two of So Circular Anthea and Helen talk about The Buyerachy of Needs - a way of deciding when to buy and when to make do. In this episode Helen talks about how the richest 7% of the world's population are responsible for half the world's carbon emissions and how we need to stop buying so much stuff. And Anthea provides lots of solutions to help us buy less stuff at Christmas. It originally aired in 2020 on Plains FM 96.9 and was brought to you by Remix Plastic, Plains FM with sponsorship from The Rubbish Whisperer and support from NZ on Air. So Circular is a r ..read more

In episode five of So Circular Anthea and Helen talk about compostable packaging and how swapping one type of single-use packaging for another isn't the answer. In this episode Anthea explains the difference between home and commercial composting and why commercial composting isn't a silver bullet to plastic pollution and Helen gets annoyed about greenwashing. It originally aired in 2020 on Plains FM 96.9 and was brought to you by Remix Plastic, Plains FM with sponsorship from The Rubbish Whisperer and support from NZ on Air. So Circular is a radio show/podcast h ..read more

Both Anthea and I have been working in businesses to reduce plastic for many years now. We've shared practical skills to help people avoid plastic such as making shampoo bars, household cleaners and beeswax wraps. This is where most of the conversation around reducing plastic is focused - individuals trying to live low waste lifestyles. But in a system that is set up for convenience and disposability, it's a hard road.  Often, we think, “what can I do to have the biggest impact on reducing plastic pollution? Should I stop buying packaged snacks? Do I have to make my own shampoo ..read more