A home organized according to the zero waste principle is not much different from any other. The only difference is that there are fewer bags and a regular bar of soap is used more often.
Living without waste is not a newfangled trend, but increasingly a necessity. Let’s save the planet’s resources and learn to throw away and consume less. There are a few simple rules you can follow.
1. Conduct an audit
To avoid duplicating items you already have, check your “stocks” often. This is especially true for consumables such as sponges, brushes, paste, and so on.
2. Make a shopping list
This will save you from unnecessary expenses and, as a result, unnecessary waste. Limit your intake to minimize waste. And to do this, buy strictly according to the list – only what you need.
3. Have sales
An excellent tradition, which is very popular in the West, is called Garage Sale – once a year or six months you put all your unnecessary things up for sale. The cost is symbolic, something is generally given away for free or exchanged. Try teaming up with friends or neighbors.
4. And buy second-hand
Discard stereotypes, second-hand shopping is not shameful, but smart. Often people put up for sale completely new items and things that did not suit them. It makes more sense to buy what you have already purchased than to throw away a new one and buy again.
5. Do something yourself
For example, bags sewn from pieces of fabric can replace plastic bags and even the string bag with which you go to the store. And the fabric for them can be found in your own wardrobe – use things that you don’t wear.
6. Don’t replace things unnecessarily
Purchasing new items should be associated with a need for them. Another vase, a new carpet, an additional lamp on sale – all this leads to clutter not only in your interior but also on the planet.
Also, try to use all available funds to the end. This is especially true for cosmetics and cleaning products. A battalion of tubes on a bathtub is not only an unpleasant visual noise in the interior but also wasted money and additional waste. Buy a new package only when the old one is completely finished.
7. Use reusable items
Instead of a disposable plastic razor – a reusable one, instead of cellophane – a zip-lock bag that can be washed. Yes, it’s a little more expensive, but in the long run, it will last longer and offset the waste of new disposable items. And most importantly, there will be less waste.
For example, soap. You can use it to wash your hands, dishes, floors, and even wash clothes (shredded into shavings in advance). Soap is inexpensive and, best of all, is completely recyclable.
8. Buy the item, not the package
It is quite difficult to follow this rule in modern realities. However, if you can take something without a bag or packaging, do it. The easiest place to start is fruits and vegetables in stores.
9. Avoid trendy items
There is nothing wrong with the things themselves, the downside is that they can go out of fashion just as quickly as they entered it. And you’ll have to figure out how to recycle your recent purchase.
10. Exchange with your neighbors
Before buying anything, ask your neighbors to see if they have the item you need. Do the same if you want to get rid of something. Naturally, we don’t take garbage into account, but household appliances, dishes or, for example, textiles may be useful to someone.
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great ideas…I follow each one already