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These cloths made from bees help in preserving the food and covering them. Ms.Shez had a bee farm near her house in Australia so she made her own.

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When Ms.Shez was young, she was taught to never ever throw waste on the streets. In her opinion, people who don't care about the amount of waste that they are generating don't like this planet enough and don't know the true beauty of nature. She really enjoyed the experience of creating zero waste products such as beeswax for covering food and the fact that she was able to eat fresh tasty food free from chemicals.

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10 Ways to Reduce Waste | Zero Waste Swaps for Beginners

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Reduce the consumption of packaged Snacks

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Reduce the consumption of packaged Snacks

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I would not tell you to stop them immediately because that is not a small change and that is a big change but try to at least give limits like eating only 3 times a week. Every month or week, you can decrease the amount until the point where you would barely eat. Plus, you'll become free from all those sugary stuff!

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This is a website where another lady sells her zero waste products with her information.

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Think waste-free living is depriving, time consuming, costly, or reserved for hermits living in the boondocks? Think again! With a blog turned bestselling book and talks throughout the world, Bea Johnson and her family have debunked those misconceptions and inspired a global movement. Join them and hundreds of thousands of others in enjoying a richer life based on experiences instead of stuff!

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Think waste-free living is depriving, time consuming, costly, or reserved for hermits living in the boondocks? Think again! With a blog turned bestselling book and talks throughout the world, Bea Johnson and her family have debunked those misconceptions and inspired a global movement.

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These are really common in India. I am sure they are really cheap

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How Swiggy will be packed

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In Chennai, Ms.Shez seems to have a difficult time going zero waste. In chennai, there are no bulk suppliers, no non packaged butter, and chicken to eat her food scraps.
Today, she isn't going zero waste but she is still striving to get batter and better. In her opinion, she is doing terrible. In Indian organic stores, ther is this himalayan laundry berry which she uses instead of detergent. She operates it with her clothings and after the laundry is done, the  seeds are composted. Food such as pasta, sugar, or other spices are bought packaged because there are no bulk suppliers in Chennai.
Also, when she tries to get delivery food such as swiggy, they are all packed with plastics. This is really difficult because she orders food when her friends come. Even though she thinks that her habits became worsened, we would still think that she is doing better compared to us.

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Ms.Shez is our high school PE teacher who is from Australia. She has lived with Zero waste for 1 and a half years. When she and her husband moved to a rural area where the supermarket was 40 minutes away for a job in a nature trip related company, they just decided to go zero waste since the market was too far away. In those years, they have never ever generated waste. The food scraps went to the chickens and she created compost with egg shells ande other food leftovers.

Firstly, she would buy glass jars to store her food.
Next, she would buy crops directly from the farmer's market where crops are not packaged. Other ingredients hard to get such as pasta and sugar were bought in bulk suppliers where food will not be packaged.
But milk cartons will still be bought because they are compostable so she used it for compost.
When her company's lunch ended where food was provided, she would bring leftover butter which was really hard to get without packaging.

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When you don't know where to start off with, look at how others are saving waste.

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If you are into coffee or tea, just buy a mug and place it on the workplace. 

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If you are into coffee or tea, just buy a mug and place it on the workplace. 

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When an average office worker uses 500 paper cups a day, just buy a mug instead and save paper!

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1. You save money because there is no need in buying disposable product. If you buy a 100 rupee water bottle, you can use it for years while if you buy a 10 rupee plastic bottle, it will go to the trash in the end of the day. Just buying it for 10 days will equal the price of a water bottle which you can use for years.

2. You eat healthy because then you don't buy a lot of packaged foods and have to get foods which are cooked freshly without any preservatives.

3. You develop a better habit. When you no generate waste, you will need to take care of numerous aspects such as eating, using, and even saving in order to minimize your waste. Also, disposable goods are for convenience so you will have to spend more time and also give a lot of effort.

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When you save waste, there are some crucial benefits which can effect your life. These Benefits can actually motivate you to save waste.

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Try to go to school with a  water bottle

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Try to go to school with a  water bottle

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Everything might seem difficult but start off by just buying a cheap reusable bottle and bringing it to school just like your other school works. You will be used to bringing in a water bottle in no time !

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To start off with, she first started to decrease the plastic products. While decreasing the amount of plastic products, she also did some research on zero waste and started to make her own products. From recycled bamboo toothbrush to a coconut baking soda toothpaste, she started to make her own products. Then that way, she knew what she was putting on her body and can control the ingredients as well. Today, she started her own company called The Simply Co and is also inspiring people by Ted Talk and other medias.

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1. An office worker uses an average of 500 paper cups a year.

2. The amount of waste generated has trippled the amount since 1960.

3. There is an island created only by waste in the Pacific Ocean called Plastic Island it is twice the size of Texas.

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1. India's 429 million citizens in urban areas generate 62 million tonnes annually.

2. India's wastes are usually untreated and sent to the open dump yards, causing pollution and trouble to citizens by their disgusting smell and taking away land for house construction.

3. Many Indians are used to throwing waste in the streets rather than throwing them in a trash can.

3. There are no recycling bins in the streets of India. There is only a huge trash can where every waste is unified. This will prevent recycling.

4. Many researchers predict that if India continues to generate untreated waste for 20 years, they will need a land which is 66000 hectares and 110 meters high. This land is around 90 of Bangalore.

5. There are 2200 power plants that converts waste to energy. India has 8 and if India constructs more  of these plants and actually trying converting most of the waste, they can generate  a huge amount of energy. 32,890 Tonnes Per Day of waste can generate 439 Mega Watts of electricity.

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This 13 minute video tells more about her journey than the article!

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Why I live a zero waste life | Lauren Singer | TEDxTeen

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1. Annually, American citizens generate between 250 to 400 tons of waste.

2. With an average of 4.6 pounds a day, American citizens generate the highest amount of waste compared to other countries.

3. Over 36% of waste thrown away in the US are recyclable.

4. Annually, Americans use 100.2 billion plastic bags.

5. The amount of waste generated in a day can fill 63000 garbage trucks.

7. There are 3000 active landfills and 10000 old landfills in the US which produce toxic particles.

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Where Does New York City's Trash Go? | Living City | The New York Times

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After Gathering up all the information, we need a good solution where people can do easily

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Lauren Singer is a zero-waste blogger who has not generated waste for 2 years.  What caused her to go zero-waste was due to an incident which happened in college. Despite being a student in Environmental Studies, her classmate would highly depend on plastic products. She was really mad at her classmate for using plastic products everyday and throwing them away. That night, she opened her fridge but her fridge was also filled with plastic products. This was how she started to go zero-waste. She is currently owning a blog called trash is for tossers.

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In order to create a solution which is suitable for people, we first have to find and learn about the people who are already fighting for the issue and look at how they are dealing with it in order to come up with a solution where many people are able to follow.

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When doing this experiment, there were way more benefits of going zero-waste than living a life with generating waste. While a zero-waste lifestyle is much beneficial to our health, a life with waste is much more convenient, but lacks in healthy lifestyle. Many prefer to live a life with waste because they are too busy are lazy and a zero-waste lifestyle requires a lot of time and effort. I think the fact that you spend more time on preparing and giving more effort is actually crucial to our lifestyle because then you will develop better habits along with a healthier life. When looking at all of these aspects, zero-waste life is really crucial for our body and the environment.

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10 Toilet Paper
1 Juice Box
1 500ml Kidney Plastic Bottle
1 1l Aquafina Plastic Bottle
9 Candy Wrappers
1 Paper Towel
1 Eraser Wrapper
2 Batteries

As you can see, this is the amount of waste that I generated in a day. Some day might turn out to have more waste than this and some day might turn out to have less waste than this. In my house, everyone drinks bottled water because the water does not seem too safe. In Korea, people still drink bottled water instead because the pipes can be rusty. I would sometimes drink tap water in Korea but my family will not despite the government advertising the safety of tap water. For the candy wrappers, I unintentionally consume them when I do homework. When compared to my zero-waste day, I think I finally realize the cause of my obesity and how bad school lunch is.

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At lunch, I had fried chicken, garlic toast, french fries, ketchup, mayonnaise, and lychee juice. FIrstly, the menu is really bad for health. There is a lot of carbohydrates inside the fries and the toast and loads of sugar inside the juice and the ketchup. There will be bad trans fat and saturated fat inside the chicken, the mayonnaise, butter used for the toast, and the vegetable oil used to fry the food. In this meal, the juice box is a waste generated.

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Compared to my other day, I bought a 10 rupee plastic bottle from the iHub to start my day. What was good about bottled water was that I really did not care whether I lost it or not because it does not have enough value as a normal water bottle. The water bottle that I used the previous day was over 20 dollars in US currency. However, when a class ends, the water starts to warm up and as the second class ends, the water is now room temperature. Also, they distract others because of the squeaky plastic noise it creates. Even though it is cheap and really accessible, lets try to not use them.

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The next day was to live my life like how I am always everyday.

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6 Toilet Paper

This was what I only generated in a day. Usually when people wash theri hands in the toilet, they use paper towels to dry their hands. However, I just either whipped the water on my clothes or I would just shake the water off. Also for toilet paper, I would actually use more but I tried my best to minimize the amount.
(These toilet papers are new and the ones that I used are flushed. It will be disgusting to take a photo of a used one. )

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In order to prevent waste generation, I also brought lunch from home. There were no products that were disposable and the food was nutritionally balanced.

Ingredients:
Rice, Spinach, Beef, Anchovies

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In order to go zero-waste, I got myself a water bottle. What was really good about this was because the water bottle had a huge opening, allowing me to add ice into the water bottle. Secondly, it was made from steel, giving the bottle extreme durability. Also, because it was made from steel, the water stayed cool for a long time. I added ice before I went to school but there was still ice when school ended!!

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My first day with without waste for a day.

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Aluminum Can:  80 to 200 years
Diapers: 250 to 800 years (In USA, 18 billion diapers are thrown away annually. )
Sanitary Napkins: 500 to 800 years
Paper: 2 to 5 months
Batteries: 100 years
Plastic Bags: 500 to 1000 years
Plastic Bottles: 70 to 450 years
Cigarette: 1 to 12 years
Cardboard: 2 months
Milk Carton: 3 months
Glass Bottles: 1 to 2 million years
Tin foil: Not biodregradable
Styrofoam: Not biodegradable

Sources by:
https://www.cafebrands.ie/how-long-it-takes-for-some-everyday-items-to-decompose/

https://www.down2earthmaterials.ie/2013/02/14/decompose/

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1543-measuring-biodegradability

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In order to see the difference, I have also done an experiment where in one day, I try to live a life without waste and the another day, I live as my normal life and generate waste.

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In order to first know the seriosity of the topic, we need some  background knowledge.

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Why is it important for the world collaborate to make our society no longer dependent on disposable products? If important, what are the solutions for generating less waste?

Supporting:
How serious is waste disposal?
How can people benefit from saving waste?
How are some people saving waste today?