Sustainable things that you can do to make a huge impact on the environment. We're talking climate change guide to sustainable living and zero waste living. First of all, zero-waste living is the term that most people searched for a lot but it's not something to think that in the next two to three months you will be a completely zero-waste expert. So first to keep in mind that being zero waste is not the most important thing but tackling your personal waste footprint is the most tangible thing you can do when you want to live more sustainably, reducing your packaging, reducing the amount of stuff you're sending to landfill is the best place to start but to get a real handle on what you're wasting the first thing to do is a trash audit. This is basically where you take a day worth of trash or however long it takes you to fill up your trash bin and at the end of that period of time you go through it and see what you're throwing away. So, for example, maybe you're throwing coffee grounds in your trash and you realize that you could start some form of compost. So, a trash audit is the most tangible visible thing that you can do. Over to an eco-friendly lifestyle, it was about less packaging and more about consumerism because every single thing we buy has a footprint on the environment something's made of cotton a lot of resources go into growing that cotton. The greenhouse gas emissions it takes to manufacture or process all things that we buy have a massive footprint on the environment. Also, educate yourself by staying informed in politics and in the news and watching documentaries that can help you on your sustainability journey. Try to spend plastic-free life, one thing to keep in mind we as a beginner is not to throw away any of the stuff that we already have. Our toothpaste, our deodorant, our shampoo, conditioner, body wash all have plastic in them. plastic is everywhere which is true and it can be really tempting to just throw all those things out to get your reusable version for those things or your plastic-free version and move on with your life but it's not the sustainable thing to do. If you already have a product and you're not going to be repurchasing it, therefore, creating the demand for more of those items to be made there's no use in throwing it away. In our food intake, we should start thinking about and incorporating more plant-based proteins into our life and less animal-based proteins for the planet's sake.
We've talked a lot about reducing right those three r's principles: reduce, reuse and recycle. Pretty much what we've gone over so far is to reduce then let's talk about reusing not throwing things away and instead of finding a creative and useful way to reuse things is really good to do and this can become overwhelming in the beginning. There are different ways to reuse things in your home if you just stop and think about it pencil holders’, used food can all sorts of things we're using toilet paper rolls to sprout seeds. There are so many ways you can implement reuse and it's a kind of easier. The next step is obviously recycling and the most sustainable option always relying on recycling to be a solution is not an indefinitely sustainable process obviously, recycling is more sustainable than sending something straight to the landfill because we are recovering those materials through recycling but especially when we talk about plastic can only be recycled a few times before it loses its integrity and cannot be remade into something. Reduce, reuse and recycle are in that order for a reason because recycling is sustainable but not the most sustainable option if you do have recycling. It is important to know what is and is not recyclable in your particular area if the processing plant that you are sending that material to is unable to process it's going to end up in a landfill anyway and that may seem like not a big deal. When plants receive big groups of recycling and a lot of it is unrecyclable unable to be recovered, they often times send that entire batch to the landfill so you putting things in your recycling that is not recyclable could be resulting in things that are recyclable going to landfill. Once you figure out what isn’t recyclable in your city then you can also figure out if there are drop-off locations for the things that are not recyclable in your takeout service and your curbside doesn't accept thin plastic recycling. Check your local grocery stores sometimes they have drop-offs at the front where you can recycle thin plastics. A huge portion of food is thrown out before it even makes it to us to be exact and just think about how many times you've bought something from the grocery store and it went bad so you threw it out. it's also really bad that we're throwing food scraps in landfills for several reasons number one because if we're putting a usable food scrap into the landfill, we can't then recover it to make really important soil. After all, our soil is losing a lot of biodiversities a lot of nutrients and landfills things do not compost to something you need sunlight water and air three things that food scraps do not get in a landfill. When food breaks down improperly the way it does in the landfill, methane gas is released, which is a much more powerful gas than carbon dioxide awful thing for the planet and the ecology overall. Bought a composting bin, specially design for your home and throw your food waste in it. These are the simplest things we can do for the betterment of our planet. So, don’t waste your energy and time and do something good for this plant. We cannot do all the good that the world needs but the world needs all the good that we can do.
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