Household

How can you do things more sustainably at home? From saving energy to handy cleaning hacks. And from reducing waste to clever tidying tips.

Throwing away a garment because it has an ugly stain? In most cases, there is no need. Earlier, we wrote an article about...

That's bummer! Have you just put on that nice ‘new’ second-hand shirt and the next thing you know, there's a stain in it. Or how about...

Giving up your dirty underwear for science. It sounds like a joke, but at the University of Amsterdam they are investigating which microfibres are released when washing clothes with…

Do you live in the area of Amsterdam, Zaandam, IJmuiden, Alkmaar or Den Helder? Then you probably got quite startled when you saw the red-colored map of...

Plastic packaging in the PMD, return the statiegeldfles to the store and hard plastic in the residual waste. It sounds simple, until you encounter a chip bag, a broken…

Oh, another ladder in your panty… Panties are made of fragile material and often end up in the trash after a few wears. A shame!…

From the beach at the Ouderkerkerplas, we always see her turning around: the Amstel Bird of energy cooperative De Windvogel. For years we’ve wanted to know how such a windmill…

Help, moths! First we saw two, then a whole load of them and they kept coming back. Based on photographs we thought: these must be pantry moths,…

You can freeze much more than you think. Regularly we receive a great tip where we think: huh, can this be kept in the freezer too?…

We previously wrote about why we are fans of wooden chopping boards. They last a long time, look lovely and – perhaps even more importantly...