Zero Waste

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Being "zero waste" means that we adopt steps towards reducing personal waste and minimizing our environmental impact.

Our community places a major focus on the 5 R's: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. We practice this by reducing consumption, choosing reusable goods, recycling, composting, and helping each other improve.

We also recognize excess CO₂, other GHG emissions, and general resource usage as waste.

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Recycling was a lie — a big lie — to sell more plastic, industry experts say. Less than 10 per cent of the plastics we’ve used have been recycled. This documentary reveals why. (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] Llamajockey 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to provide a hopeful, positive spin on this... Think that there is %10 less waste out there because of this "recycling effort" Very tiny small silver lining.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ah, but we spent decades not discussing the plastic issue in the public discourse because of the recycling lie. We've been much more tolerant of plastics than we might otherwise have been, and so produced much more of it in that time.

Rmemeber, the promise of plastic packaging was that it would "save trees" and be endlessly recyclable.