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Name: Waste Not
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Author: Erin Rhoads

Erin Rhoads

Make a Big Difference by Throwing Away Less

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In 'Waste Not' Erin Rhoads shares her journey towards a zero-waste lifestyle. She offers practical advice and tips on reducing our dependence on single-use items and adopting a more conscious approach to living that benefits both our health and the planet.

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What’s in it for me? Learn how living a minimal waste lifestyle can transform your life.

Ever notice how the modern world is virtually wrapped in plastic? Even to-go coffee cups are lined with it. And what’s worse, all the plastic produced in the past century is still around, clogging up landfills and polluting our oceans. But while a few decades ago the word environmentalist was synonymous with hippie, these days, most of us are environmentally conscious, dutifully carrying our glass, paper, and plastic to the recycling bin.

Unfortunately, we also carry around a lot of false assumptions – like the idea that recycling is the best we can do. But have you ever considered trying to generate less waste? This isn’t just a journey to protect the environment, but a chance to transform your life. You’ll be eating better food, learning new skills, avoiding toxic chemicals, and learning to appreciate the moment rather than material things.

So if you care about how you move through this world, then read on, and learn how small changes can help align your actions with your beliefs.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how recycling really works;
easy steps you can take to stop relying on plastic; and
how literally all areas of your life can be just fine with less waste.

The less you consume, the less waste the earth has to absorb.

The idea of “zero waste” might sound crazy at first, but consider this: When a leaf falls off a tree, it’s broken down by microorganisms, which in turn sustain bugs that sustain birds that sustain . . . well, you get the picture. Nature itself is a zero-waste system.

Or at least it was until human beings came along. And while we got along with nature pretty well for millenia, during the Industrial Revolution, new technologies introduced mass production. So as we extract fossil fuels and raw materials from the earth to make new products, waste – often, toxic waste – is a major result. In fact, every environmental threat stems from human actions.

And though things like using solar panels and recycling diligently can help, those efforts still use resources. That’s why it’s important to reduce consumption.

The key message is: The less you consume, the less waste the earth has to absorb.

Everything you buy requires energy – not just when it’s produced, but when you throw it away. Just think about the impact of plastics, which can take more than 500 years to break down. Plastics don’t nourish the soil; instead, they clog it up – and they’ve now made their way into our food and our water.

Even worse, plastics now end up stuck inside the noses of sea turtles and in the malnourished bellies of Laysan albatrosses, who often mistake plastic for food. And while plastic doesn’t break down quickly, it does break up into microplastics. Along with the microbeads often found in face wash, those all end up in the ocean. In fact, in 2016, scientists estimated that Europeans consumed roughly 11,000 bits of microplastic in their seafood every year.

But what about recycling? Doesn’t that prevent waste?

Not necessarily. A little recycling symbol doesn’t mean an object can be recycled indefinitely. Most plastic can only be recycled once before the end of its lifespan. And while paper can be recycled ten times, recycling is also a market-driven business, so stock can sit for a long time before anything is done with it.

Meanwhile, we continue to buy more stuff. In fact, we’re encouraged to do it. That’s because products are designed with planned obsolescence in mind – they’re meant to fail so that we have to purchase new ones.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. In the next blink, we’ll get into how you can start making small changes in your life to make a big positive impact on the world we live in.

Take a look at your consumption and see whether you can do things differently.

The easiest way to understand the zero-waste lifestyle is to think of it as a circular system, as opposed to the linear system of “buy, use, discard, and rebuy” in which most people participate. The term “zero waste” was coined in the 1970s by Dr. Paul Palmer, a California chemist whose company found uses for Silicon Valley’s chemical waste. Palmer was guided by the belief that any waste was a design flaw and that all byproducts should have a known use.

Like Palmer, Bea Johnson also believes that recycling is not a sufficient solution to the waste problem. On her blog Zero Waste Home, Johnson encourages her readers to look at their trash through the lens of the five Rs – refuse, reduce, reuse, rot, and recycle – and consider whether an object was necessary in the first place – that is, whether they could have refused it. Only if nothing further can be done with it does she encourage recycling.

To reduce waste in the kitchen, do some advance planning.

The kitchen is usually the center of family life, the place where people cook, gather, and drink their morning coffee as they prepare to face the day. Typically, the kitchen also gets replenished on a weekly basis – and, unfortunately, it’s where most waste originates.

If you’ve taken a look at your plastic usage, you know exactly how much unneeded packaging you have in your kitchen. So this is a great moment to remind yourself that for thousands of years, humans got along pretty well without all that packaging – and you can, too. It just takes a little planning.

Produce less waste by taking care of the things you have.

Now it’s time to take a look under your kitchen sink, where you probably have an arsenal of plastic bottles filled with hazardous chemicals, each one designed to target a specific type of filth around your home. Unfortunately, most of these chemicals contain hormone disruptors, neurotoxins, and carcinogens, which build up in homes and also get flushed down into the soil. But just as humans in the past didn’t need plastic bags, they didn’t need all these chemicals, either. Instead, they relied on a few simple items, like soap and vinegar, to keep their homes and possessions clean.

Part of the zero-waste lifestyle is learning how to take care of your stuff, whether it’s hardwood floors, antique rugs, or even clothes. And in being mindful of how you look after your things, you actually begin to value them more. In turn, they last longer – and reduce the need for you to replace them.

Being mindful of your clothes is a fashionable lifestyle.

Believe it or not, one of the biggest sources of waste is clothing. With the rise of “fast fashion,” which encourages us to buy a new wardrobe every season, it’s no wonder clothes are clogging landfills. Australia, for example, imports 90 percent of its clothing and throws away 6000 kilos of it every ten minutes. Think about all that waste – not just of the physical objects, but also the resources involved in producing them.

But don’t worry. A zero-waste lifestyle doesn’t require that you pare your wardrobe down to a monk’s habit; it just asks that you reorient how you buy and hold onto clothes. Instead of chasing down the newest trends, seek out timeless staples. And if your closet is stuffed with items you haven’t worn in months, ask yourself whether there’s anyone in your life who’d love to have them.

Love yourself by taking care of yourself naturally.

Just as you have an overabundance of chemicals beneath your sink, you likely have one above your sink, too. All those face and hand washes, beauty masks and hair gels, and even toilet paper and sanitary pads use tons of wasteful packaging that you simply don’t need.

Don’t worry, though – you don’t have to forgo makeup and face masks to be zero waste. But since you’re pursuing a zero-waste lifestyle, you don’t want your actions to contribute to the environmental impact caused by scented toilet paper and cosmetics you don’t need.

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Waste Not (2019) is a practical guide to changing your consumption lifestyle in order to have a big, eco-friendly impact. Learn how to enjoy the conveniences of the modern world without leaving behind a pile of modern trash.

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Über den Autor

Erin Rhoads is Australia’s best-known eco-blogger. Since 2013, she’s been documenting her zero-waste lifestyle on her Rogue Ginger blog, and she currently works as a waste reduction consultant. Rhoads has been a regular contributor to ABC Radio, BBC World Service, and the Guardian.

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