The house, organized according to the principle of Zero Waste, is not very different from any other. Is that there are fewer packets here and is often used by the usual piece of soap.
Life without waste is not a new-fashioned trend, but more and more need. We keep the resources of the planet and learn to throw out and consume less. There are several simple rules that can be followed.
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1 Conduct an audit
In order not to duplicate the items that you already have, look at your "stocks". This particularly concerns consumables like sponges, brushes, pasta, and so on.
2 Make a shopping list
It will save you from excess spending and, as a result, excess garbage. Limit consumption to minimize waste. And for this buy strictly on the list - just what you need.
3 Self-sale
An excellent tradition, which is very popular in the West, is called Garage Sale - once a year or half a year to put all your unnecessary things on the sale. The cost is symbolic, something at all give in a gift or change. Try to unite with friends or neighbors.
4 and buy with hands
Drop stereotypes, Second-hand is not ashamed, but reasonable. Often, people are put up for sale absolutely new items and things that did not come across them. It is wiser to buy already purchased than throwing new and buy again.
5 Do something yourself
For example, stitched from pieces of matter bags can replace cellophane packages and even a volcast from which you go to the store. And the cloth for them can be found in its own wardrobe - use things that do not wear.
6 Do not replace things without need
Buying new items must be associated with the need for them. Another vase, a new carpet, an additional lamp on the stock - it all leads to litter not only of your interior, but also planets.
Also try to use all available funds to the end. This is especially true for cosmetics, cleaning agents. The battalion of tubes on the bath is not only unpleasant visual noise in the interior, but also spent money and additional garbage. Buy a new packaging only when old is completely over.
7 Use reusable items
Instead of a disposable plastic razor - a reusable, instead of cellophane - a package on a zip-clasp that can be washed. Yes, it is a bit more expensive, but ultimately will last longer and levels the waste to new disposable items. And most importantly - there will be less garbage.
For example, soap. They can wash their hands, dishes, gender, even to wash clothes (shred in advance in the chips). Soap is inexpensive and, most pleasant, is completely utilized.
8 Buy the subject, not packing
It is quite difficult in modern realities to follow this rule. However, if it is possible to take something without a package or packaging - do it. The simplest thing is to start - this is fruits and vegetables in stores.
9 Discard ultramody things
There is nothing bad in the things themselves, minus is that they can also get out of fashion as they entered. And you will have to invent, how to utilize your recent purchase.
10 Exchange with neighbors
Before you buy something, ask your neighbors, perhaps they have the thing you need. Approach similarly if you want to get rid of something. Naturally, we do not take the garbage, but household appliances, dishes or, for example, textiles, can come in handy to someone.
