Reducing Landfill Trash By Living Zero-Waste
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| Image Source: @goingzerowaste |
Youtube Links:
Lauren Singer discusses her zero-waste lifestyle on Ted Talks:
Bea Johnson’s Ted Talk on raising a zero-waste family with her husband and two children:
Zero-Waste Blog Links:
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: refuse, reduce, recycle, and rot. The selective links above will lead you to Ted Talk videos and zero-waste blogs, in which discuss how to live more mindfully and sustainability by taking steps toward small zero-waste changes.
Considering as a first public voice who introduced the zero-waste movement to the media community, Bea Johnson (@zerowastehome) has successfully adopted a “collective action” to powerfully influence the public readers and bloggers through #DIY blogposts, waste discussions, and health/economic benefits of reducing waste. Another crowdsourced elite of the zero-waste movement is Lauren Singer (@trashisfortossers), an Environmental Studies graduate from NYU and founder of an organic company The Simply Co. Through posting her zero-waste journey to Trashisfortossersblog, Lauren has inspired millions of followers to reduce daily waste by taking small changes, from bringing reusable shopping bags to making DIY cleaning products.
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| Zero-Waste Kitchen Swap [Image Source: Pinterest] |
Now that you have a general understanding of these influencers’ backgrounds, kindly scroll further down to read the common Q&As about the #zerowaste #lifestyle.
Why a zero-waste lifestyle will make a significant impact on the environment and to your daily lifestyle?
The experience of zero-waste helps you to become a more mindful and conscious consumer. Not only waste reduction lessens your impact on the environment, but it also creates a cost-effective budget for your daily purchases. Instead of buying an excessive amount of disposable products, you can reuse items that are already available at home, such as cotton cleaning cloths for house cleaning (instead of paper towel) and reusable water bottles (instead of plastic bottled water).
Does zero-waste mean no waste at all?
Not at all! Living zero-waste should not be an arduous challenge or competition for producing no garbage. Instead, a zero-waste lifestyle helps you to feel happier, more meaningful, and more mindful by implementing the 5R’s into your daily life. When you recycle and compost, you are part of the zero-waste lifestyle. By taking a stance against needless waste, such as single-use plastic items, you are making a step to live more simply and sustainably.
How can you start a zero-waste lifestyle?
Supporting local groceries, bringing reusable water bottles, shopping at the thrift stores, refusing plastic bags, and reusing handkerchiefs are some of the ways you can start living sustainably. To be an effective zero-waster, refer to the 5R’s that I have mentioned and explained above!
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| Easy Swaps - Image Source: @trashisfortossers |
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| Reusable beeswax wrap instead of disposable plastic wrap [Pinterest] |
Lastly, visit more links below for tips on easy zero-waste changes:
-> Check out the 30-day #zerowastechallenge and leave a comment below to share your experience! If you have more zero-waste tips to share, please do tell and share with other readers as well!
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