For 30 days he wore every piece of trash he created!
I recommend this video for everyone. The trash we produce on a daily-basis is just something terrible. These days it is not enough just to sort plastic and glass properly…what about not to be the cause of the trash?..
For 30 Days I Wore Every Piece of Trash I Created by Rob Greenfield on youtube:
After I watched this video, I thought about my trash, what it would be what I wear on myself within 30 days?
Pour-degradable trash which I am creating within a month in 2020:
- scotch of cardboard boxes from online purchases
- plastic packages from vegan products like dried fruits and nuts (however, large part of those packages I used to use twice, trice or more)
- once a month that could be plastic bottle of a shampoo (still using some commercial products)
- plastic bags where I put compost which is going to municipal needs (because not all plant materials are appropriate for my home-made Bokashi compost)
- some small pieces of plastic which are the part of labels when you buy new pair of socks or T-shirts (many companies use them widely)
For 1.5 years, I am trying !successfully! not to create these kind of pour-degradable trashes:
| Tubes of a toothpaste | BECAUSE | I make my own teethpaste for teeth and keep it in glass or silicone refillable jars |
| Tubes of face/body/hand creams | I make my own body/face/hand cream and keep it in the same plastic jar which is refilled | |
| plastic bags for garbage bin | BECAUSE | I clean the garbage bin with water and soda, sometimes with vinegar, dry it and put some cardboard or piece of paper on the bottom. Being a transitional vegan, our menu does not consist any meat or fish by-products, so the garbage bin smells well, not like a hell 🙂 |
| disposable plastic bags | we do not bring any single piece of plastic bags to home – all plastic bags which we already have serve us for long | |
| coffee/tea cups for take away | BECAUSE | have my super cup with me usually or prefer to sit down in a coffee shop and have my tea from ceramic cup (without sipping plastics from “paper” disposable cups) |
| plastic straws | any straws actually, they cause wrinkles to appear:) | |
| plastic bottles for water | BECAUSE | I use my water thermos and Tupperware plastic bottles if the water should be in demand, just thinking few hours in advance and making small prognoses – lots of money saved! |
| dishwasher soaps | one 0.5 liter bottle of such soap serves for us approximately for 1 year, if not longer. We wash the dishes with hot water, and if the plates are greasy – first remove the fat with paper towel. However, our menu does not contain lots of fats, it is mostly vegetables and fruits, nuts, grains…nothing really fatty fat on a daily basis | |
| plastic bottles of washing liquids for clothes | BECAUSE | I use old plastic bottles which have left after the last commercially-purchased washing shampoo was bought. I make my own washing liquid from special soap flakes, which serves just perfect. Soap flakes, in their turn, are packed in cardboard boxes |
Just thinking few hours in advance and making small prognoses – lots of money saved in regards to bottled water and plastic bags!
What about you? What would be in your trash package to hold for a month?
Photo by Dr. A. Palatronis on www.z-antenna.com
