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Hummus!!!!!I feared I was the only one.
I use a shampoo bar and then rinse my hair with apple cider, it doesn’t smell to me…?
A big fail for me was the deodorant, the coconut ruined a lot of my shirts so now I use a recipe I found from “going zero waste blog”I’ve only gotten the “weird looks” at stores a few times. Most people thing its cool and have told me they are going to start doing the same thing. I’m a very shy person and normally this would bother me but I just remind myself that I’m just living the values that I’ve always had. I’m doing this for the planet, for the other precious organisms that we share this earth with and for my health.
I totally agree with her statement, the biggest change for me was diet, I do love salt and vinegar potato chips and soda. But I finally gave it up (it took a very long time to give up the soda though 🙁 ).
I think a lot of us forget that most of the waste is produced before the actual product is delivered to the shelf. For example, the meat, egg and dairy industry (a touchy subject for many). Not including the suffering, brutality and fear that is perpetrated here, these industries are responsible for a lot of pollution. Individuals are now rising up against factory farms being located in there communities because these corporations are dumping waste water and contaminating the soil/drinking water (food and water watch is in a legal battle right now over this very issue). So, my point is we need to remember that achieving “zero waste” is not only measured by the amount of garbage we can physically fit in a mason jar, although it is a great start.
I agree with this statement because I see it on a daily basis and sadly this was how I used to live (sometimes), although I wasn’t fully aware of what my decisions had on the environment at the time, even though I had always considered myself an environmentalist.
I initially learned all about the zero waste movement through Bea’s book/blog and I realized that this is pretty much the way my grandparents lived. They didn’t think of it as being “zero waste” or being environmentally friendly, it was simply their way of life. Bringing mason jars/containers to a store was a novel idea for me because I’m a shy person this was initially very hard for me to do. I thought that buying items that wasn’t in plastic packaging was good enough but Bea taught me that avoiding packaging in general is route to take. I didn’t however agree with the section about how to choose a pet. Maybe I’m just interpreting it wrong (and i apologize if I did). I don’t own a dog but if I decided to adopt, I would not base my decision on the physical attributes of the breed e.g. “chose his coat color to match the floor so that his shedding hair would not show.”
Too few people care or bother to take action/change when they have been exposed to the depths of pollution plaguing the planet. Everyone at my workplace knows about the plastic pollution problem and the toxic consequences to our own health and the environment (I get asked a lot of question about why I always bring my own utensils, water bottle etc. and why I (kindly) never accept anything offered to me that’s wrapped in plastic), yet I still see my coworkers using plastic cutlery and carrying there food in plastic bags every single day. I have actually had coworkers (everyone from the janitors to doctors) mock me and make mean spirited jokes about the fact that I don’t use single use plastics. So sadly, I don’t think Bea’s vision is possible.
My vision for the future is that people will be more mindful of there choices and try to live more environmentally friendly.
