The NSW Central Tableland's teacher has cut her waste - food waste, plastic - everything - down into a Moccona jar's worth of rubbish... every seven months.

The Orange local buys nearly all of her food without plastic or waste, and has found an eco-friendly replacement for nearly everything.

Cling wrap? Beeswax paper or, for hot food, silicon wraps. Aluminium foil? Parchment paper.

She's found environmental health products to navigate the plastic-heavy world of skincare and health products, too.

"For a long time I didn't have a lot of facecare products so the moisturiser cream but then Ethique and Viva La Body came out with some beautiful ones, black clay and charcoal and whatnot on your skin," Ms Willoughby said.

"A few years ago I was completely unaware of this stuff - I just didn't think about it."

However, the War on Waste series by Craig Reucassel woke her up to how much plastic we use in our everyday lives.

"A lot of people think if it goes on the ground here it doesn't end up in the ocean, but where do the waterways go?" she said.

"Once you've been educated on it you can't not see it. I didn't know how much plastic there was in everything."

Since then, she's cut nearly all her waste - with compost, chickens and worms helping take care of most waste, and through Eco Orange she's helping others take the plunge too, with a shop set up in her garage for people looking for plastic-free alternatives.

One major solution Ms Willoughby has found to avoiding plastic packaging in supermarkets is to avoid buying what you don't need.

"Food is the worst. Food and shopping has so much packaging," she said.

"I found the thing in [my bins] the most was yogurt containers, so I thought 'what if I could make this myself?' Turns out it's dead easy. Pasta? Dead easy too. I almost think 'why are we buying stuff when it's so easy' to make?"

"It's almost like we're duped into thinking buying is the only option and we can't make things ourselves and we're too time-poor."

Plastic Free July runs all through this month.