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Know someone who can’t bear food waste?
Give them the gift of an arsenal of ingenious
tips and hacks with No Waste Kitchen by
Giovanna Torrico and Amelia Wasiliev
($19.99, Hachette). It’s packed with advice on
how to use up everything from orange peel to
broccoli stems. Available in good bookstores.
Chocolate is a perennial people-pleaser –
even more so when it’s UTZ certified, which
means the cocoa beans are sustainably
farmed, as those used by Haigh’s Chocolates
are. The company has a strong track record
on environmental management, too, with its
Easter bilby campaign and recyclability
factored into all its packaging. Milk Caramel
Chocolate Santa tablet gift box, $10.50;
haighschocolates.com.au.
Here’s cheers to a rosé that ticks a lot of great
gifting boxes: it’s lovely to drink; at $22 it’s
wallet-friendly; and it’s made by De Bortoli,
which is working towards becoming a
zero-waste wine company. debortoli.com.au.YOU BE AUT Y
Nail that gift list with a bottle (or two) of
Kester Black nailpolish. It’s made by a
Melbourne company that was the first beauty
firm in the world to achieve the stringent
B Corporation environmental certification.
$20 each; kesterblack.com.The label is beautiful, the scent divine
and the company ethos excellent. Palm
oil-free Urthly Organics hand and body
wash, $22, comes in bottles made by
Australia’s first carbon-neutral plastics factory,
where old plastic is recycled to be used anew.
urthlyorganics.com.au.Made by hand in Melbourne, The Australian
Natural Soap Company’s All Australian giftbox features five palm-oil-free soaps scented
with essential oils, including eucalyptus and
macadamia. $41.95; Biome; biome.com.au.HAPPY COOK
The Kitchen Alchemy candle from
Circa Home is handmade in Australia,
with soy wax poured into recyclable glass.
One dollar from every sale is donated to
food-rescue charity OzHarvest. $34.95;
circahome.com.au.Spruce up the table of someone you
love with these gorgeous salad servers.
They’re handmade from recycled timber.
$19.90/set, Inartisan; inartisan.com.Featuring designs that are hand-printed on
organic cotton, these tea towels are the
work of The Linen Press, a carbon-neutral
Melbourne company with a solar-powered
studio. $25; thelinenpress.com.au. #GOOD TO GIVE
Pop a gift from an environmentally responsible purveyor under the tree this season.
The green house
Text by Sarah Pickette.