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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[–] AnAnonymousApe@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I spoke with an employee at my local recycling centre earlier in the year, when dropping off a car load of waste. I asked him how they recycle the plastic and his response was "Don't worry lad, we burn it all to recycle it into nice clean energy".

[–] Jellojiggle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Ohhhh that’s how recycling is done.

[–] SubsAndDubs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes that old chestnut, we will make it look like we are protecting one thing but actually destroying another thing.