I can boldly say I am trying to live a zero-waste lifestyle. As you all know it is difficult to completely eliminate non-biodegradable waste from our daily lives, especially now that food take outs are common. At our university we went on a serious buy-take-out week due to sanitizing measures in September to early October. The amount of trash that we generated those weeks was so huge! For one meal, one would get a plastic bag, plastic spoon wrapped up in plastic, plastic container of the main meal, another one for soup or separate salad, yogurt container and of course biodegradable chopsticks wrapped in paper. Maybe with a picture or pictures you can figure out how much trash we generated in a day.
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| Food packaging 'single use items' |
Sigh!!! Sad, right? So sad that a 30-minute meal generated this much waste, non-biodegradable! Hmm it's so disturbing. Anyway, in Korea the recycling seems to be efficient and it's rare to find piles of rotten garbage.
Back to my routine during the sanitizing week. Due to daily temperature checkups and all, it was a wise decision to reduce contact tracing by eating at the closest place so I avoided going off-campus but resorted to the 'plastic packed meals'. Though some days I just chose to reduce my carbon print by going home and eat plastic free lunch.
Every step counts though it would seem insignificant. I later started to seriously plan on reducing my carbon print. It is my responsibility to make a positive impact on the earth for future generations.
My new strategy towards zerowaste is to always carry reusable shopping bags whenever I go for shopping, refusing excess plastic packaging, carry my own basket when buying fruits and vegetables in the mart, go for bottled products than plastics etc.
I hope you enjoyed reading my ZEROWASTE LIFESTYLE. Please feel free to comment and share any zerowaste lifestyle tips, together we can save the environment.
