Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 1:57:15 GMT -5
While some companies, governments and citizens are thinking about options to implement in our daily routine, and reduce the amount of garbage and waste that is around us, several families have acted drastically and all the garbage that is produced in their home, in one year , has been the size of a jar weighing less than a kilo.
How do they achieve it? They are integrating France Mobile Number List new habits that help consume more responsibly, especially that removes disposable and polluting materials from our lives that only drive global warming and its effects on the Earth.
On average, a person living in developed countries generates about 1 kilogram per day, while in developing countries between 400 and 700 grams are produced.
It is necessary to change our habits and start with ourselves to create the habit of not consuming products with single-use plastic.
Story of a family that has lived 11 years without producing waste
Bea Johnson's family produces a minimal amount of garbage in a year, it is so little that it fits in a glass jar the size of a fist.
But it hasn't always been like this. Previously they generated more than two tons of garbage per year.
So far in 2019 they have only accumulated a few fruit labels, a piece of electrical tape that one of the children brought home stuck to a shoe, and labels from a clothing purchase.
Everything else has been reused or composted.
To see the “zero waste” progress, the Johnson family has 11 jars, one for each year they have lived without causing waste.
“This is a lifestyle, not a call to environmental action,” says Bea Johnson, 45, a pioneer of the zero waste movement. “What I preach is not really recycling. It's not having to reach out to him."
This way they don't produce tons of garbage:
Bea Johnson tells in her book Zero Waste at Home how an American family learned to live without producing waste. It has been translated into 26 languages, and generated a community of two million people on social networks.
How do they achieve it? They are integrating France Mobile Number List new habits that help consume more responsibly, especially that removes disposable and polluting materials from our lives that only drive global warming and its effects on the Earth.
On average, a person living in developed countries generates about 1 kilogram per day, while in developing countries between 400 and 700 grams are produced.
It is necessary to change our habits and start with ourselves to create the habit of not consuming products with single-use plastic.
Story of a family that has lived 11 years without producing waste
Bea Johnson's family produces a minimal amount of garbage in a year, it is so little that it fits in a glass jar the size of a fist.
But it hasn't always been like this. Previously they generated more than two tons of garbage per year.
So far in 2019 they have only accumulated a few fruit labels, a piece of electrical tape that one of the children brought home stuck to a shoe, and labels from a clothing purchase.
Everything else has been reused or composted.
To see the “zero waste” progress, the Johnson family has 11 jars, one for each year they have lived without causing waste.
“This is a lifestyle, not a call to environmental action,” says Bea Johnson, 45, a pioneer of the zero waste movement. “What I preach is not really recycling. It's not having to reach out to him."
This way they don't produce tons of garbage:
Bea Johnson tells in her book Zero Waste at Home how an American family learned to live without producing waste. It has been translated into 26 languages, and generated a community of two million people on social networks.