I recently stumbled upon an interesting video where a girl tells that she has produced only 450 grams of garbage over the past three years. Then I found her lecture in the TED and decided to share it. I do not fully agree with it in some moments, in fact, I think, she is simply unhappy with modern society and unhappy with the lack of transparency in technological production. But her overall message is clear to me.
Questions :
1. What do you agree or disagree with in this video?
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
Comments
And I'm really impressed that she has her own values and does a lot of things to be honest to her self and her values.
2. I belive so. Small steps while taken by a group of peoplecan change a lot.
3. I'm really bad at managing my garbage. And after watching that video I realised that I'm so unaware of my groceries shoping habits. For now I can't even say that I'm slightly reducing garbage. But now I know how to start :D
In my opinion small tricks related to household garbage can help the ecology of city, because people are producing most wastes (at least in cities where most people work in services).
I am trying to avoid taking plastic bags and using plastic bottles to reduce amount of garbage I produce. What is more, I am trying to segregate my wastes, so at least part of them can be recycled.
-As great as this idea is, I think that we shouldn’t go from one extreme to another. What would be the global results of ‘not producing any wastes’? How many people responsible for the recycling process etc. would lose their jobs? There are always consequences which come with choices, and most of them remain invisible to us, some, and to some, forever.
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
-Doing such things in a greater scale, surely would help the ecology not only of a city but of the planet.
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
-I am not sure whether that counts, but I’m “crushing my garbages” so that they take less place.
Yes, my wife did a deodorant and cream on her own, but not to reduce the production of garbage, but simply to make everything natural.
I would like to believe that the "zero rubbish" lifestyle will help save the ecology and nature. It seems to me that plastic produces and sells so much that most will not stop using it. Plastic packaging is convenient and time saving. Plastic is recycled. Therefore, I would solve this problem in such a way that people made sure that the plastic got into the container. I just try not to use plastic dishes if I can take another and nothing else. But I do not store at home a separate jar from which I go to a store or a jar into which I pour only drinking water.
Overall I agree, but it sounds hard to me to adapt to this lifestyle. I don't think that a lot of people will try it - it requires to be consious of our environment and to completely change Your behaviour. Also she mentioned buying second hand things, and making a lot of products on her own. Cool, but... what will happen to the national economy ?
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
It would help a lot - in 2018 there was a big problem a Warsaw because there was no company which will take garbage out of a few neighbourhoods - it was a good chance to see how much garbage do people "produce" in a week.
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
I do nothing, and I feel bad about it - propably I should at least sort my garbage before throwing it out, but in my rubbish dump there are containers only for mixed garbage, whitch is not motivating me to actually sort them
Well, if most people would start living similar to her, then that would definitely help the ecology of the city but for now I think that few people won’t change the world. The things that she’s talking about are kind of extreme but we can definitely reduce garbage production in our everyday life remembering about simple rules.
The only thing that comes to my mind is using a water filter so I don’t buy water in plastic bottles. I have a special jug that has a filter inside filtering water for me. I don’t know whether it’s more a special step or just my ow comfort because I don’t have to think whether I will have enough water to drink or not because this Sunday shops are closed.
I totally agree with this girl about zero garbage, actually, these ideas will keep our planet saving.
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
of course yes, but it depends on people culture around the care of their environment, there are interesting or not.
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
actually, I'm didn't thinking about my steps in everyday life around my way at reducing the amount of garbage before, but it's the time to pay attention. "Useful topic".
I agree with the idea of reducing waste and exclude unnecessary garbage, but this 0 waste lifestyle is to much for me. I mean it is a good concept but for people who have time and ambition to limit so many products.
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
For sure they will but propably not in a significant extent. The most pollution and trash is produced by factories and huge workspaces. Anyway a small diference still matters.
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
Now I drink water in my glass bottle so I reduced the waste of pastic bottles. The number of water points where people can fill their bottles is growing really fast. Even in our academy there is one! The second thing is that I am using material bags for shopping.
2. I can't say it for sure, but in my opinion yes, it would help. At least slightly. Recently, I read somewhere that there is more plastic in the ocean that fish itself. So by doing such small things can be useful to at least polluting out plant, I'm not even talking about cleaning all that mess which the human kind produced.
3. The first thing which came to my mind is I never thrown any garbage on the streets or anywhere else. If there is no trash can I'm always caring the trash to the home.
Every small action which contribute to reduction of household garbage is important as it often becomes your habit then your family’s habit, your friends’ habit and so on and it is a kind of a positive snowball effect which helps to protect the environment.
I think that I could do more to reduce amount of garbage I produce. On daily basis I use reusable bags when I go shopping and I always sort waste that I produce.
I agree with speaker, and sometimes I caught my self on the same ideas of over-packaging of products especially from deliveries, cause it don't have lot of sense. So idea to produce less trash and less plastic trash in particular in my opinion is really important.
2. Will such small tricks related to household garbage help the ecology of city?
One by one, if society or more importantly government will look on this problems like speaker, we can get the ball rolling. Doing nothing is the worst strategy.
3. What steps in everyday life do you take to at least slightly reduce the amount of garbage you produce?
I stopped to buy bottled beverages and instead bought a filter for water, so I don't need to buy bottled water everyday. Also I always bring my backpack with me on shopping instead of plastic bags.