Reducing Landfill Trash By Living Zero-Waste
Image Source: @goingzerowaste Youtube Links: Lauren Singer discusses her zero-waste lifestyle on Ted Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF72px2R3Hg&t=204s Bea Johnson’s Ted Talk on raising a zero-waste family with her husband and two children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUmo-40pqA Zero-Waste Blog Links: http://trashisfortossers.com https://zerowastehome.com https://www.goingzerowaste.com To open, I want to introduce the zero-waste lifestyle that many bloggers have been implementing in their daily lives with a mission to lessen human impacts on the environment. Eliminating single-use plastic products, reducing needless waste, upcycling old materials, sorting recyclable discards, and composting food scraps are the five steps that take you to the zero-waste routine. According to Bea Johnson, a global movement advocate and author of the book and blog Zero Waste Home , an easy way to remember these five steps is to keep in mind the 5R’s rules