Eps 1: Why we should have a zero waste life?
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Reducing, reusing and recycling can be a key part of a climate change strategy to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
A zero waste approach can build community capacity, support marginalized communities and protect community health.
Called 'extended producer responsibility', this gives companies an incentive to reduce packaging, and make their products more durable, or easier to recycle.
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Daisy Shelton
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A waste-free lifestyle involves a more thoughtful, minimalist approach to life. It is not so easy to eat clean, remove all plastic and belongings, and change the sources of the waste to include things like food, clothing, electronics, and other non-recyclable materials.
Megean Weldon explains: "Zero - Waste Living is not for everyone, and it's not like trying to fit one year's rubbish into a jar. If you reduce your waste and accumulate less waste, you will have better health and a better life for you and your family. Johnson and her family, dubbed the "priestess of waste - free living" by the New York Times, reduce their waste to a quart - a glass the size of a canister a year.
There are also many environmental concerns, so it is important to reduce waste, especially if you do not get regular collection for your waste and recycling. The garbage occupies a place in your home and is not only harmful to your health, but also to the planet as a whole.
While we do our best to reduce our waste, the waste you see in your trash can is often the result of a combination of many different factors that compost as much as possible, to be precise. And so: materials that come from natural resources and are processed into a finished product can end up in the garbage at the roadside. The time and energy you spend putting your rubbish in the dump will be saved if you can just make a few adjustments.
If we could make everyone's habits more environmentally friendly, we would address the 87% of our can waste that happens before we even see a product on the shelf.
We use as much as we can, send what is not recycled, compost what cannot, and compost and reuse what we send. This reduces the time it takes to change our systems, to avoid waste and to protect natural resources.
The goal of zero waste is to move towards a circular economy in which we write off the waste of our existence. We live in a linear economy, where resources are taken from the earth, disposed of and recycled. Instead of throwing them away, we are creating a system in which they can fully re-enter the system.
At its core, the zero waste movement aims to reduce waste generation, and evaluating our current waste is the best way to understand what we are throwing away and what should be reduced immediately. This is similar to the finding that a plastic fork is not entirely made of plastic and therefore cannot be recycled as plastic.
There are also a few blogs and YouTube accounts that can help you get started: Green Matters is filled with huge resources to reduce your impact and live with zero waste. Check out what's in the trash and watch this tutorial or read it to learn how to recycle it properly and put it into practice today.
You may have heard of microplastics entering the food chain and you may have been asked to refrain from using single-use plastic. The less plastic we use in food storage and packaging, the less contact we have with plastic in our food and skin.
As you may have heard, zero waste is at the forefront of the environmental movement that is gaining momentum in the United States and around the world.
By applying zero waste management methods, produce as little waste as possible to landfills, reduce the consumption of packaged goods and recycle only when necessary. In the US, the share of recycled or biodegradable waste was 26% in 2015. Much of this waste is not recycled because it is too expensive or because it is mixed and can only be recycled in the form of plastic, paper, glass, metal, plastic bottles, etc.
The movement of zero waste is currently having a moment and we have seen the rise of zero waste grocery stores. But the issue of "lifestyle without waste" is a much bigger problem than just food consumption. Simplifying our lives by reducing waste "has helped shape the movement of the" zero waste "lifestyle into what it is today, as it is today. We can trace the origins of the Zero Waste movement in the United States back to 2006, when Bea Johnson and her family founded their Zero Waste Kitchen. The family's approach was simple: buy 10% of what you need and recycle everything.