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It all started with a straw
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That reached the sea
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and ended up inside the nostril of a turtle,
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and someone asking the right question,
Wouldn’t it be the best to stop producing waste at all?
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There were already people who weren’t producing waste
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Is it really possible to avoid producing waste?
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I decided to try it myself, and I convinced my family too.
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Our goal is to produce the least amount of garbage in our home,
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She has shown us some videos with tips
to stop generating so much waste
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From the documentaries films we saw,
I was very shocked from the one that showed birds,
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That are found dead on the coastlines,
Because they ingest the garbage that we have thrown away
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Somehow the garbage reaches the rivers and the sea,
The birds consume it, and die,
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This story started some time ago
when I met a friend who was a „minimalist“
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and she inspired me, she always tried not buy in packages,
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And she had very little stuff in her room,
only the things that were strictly necessary.
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My name is Gabriela Baeza,
and I have started this zero waste project
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It is complicated, I support more the idea of reducing our waste production by half compared to the average Mexican family
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Because we don’t have the infrastructure to be a zero waste family,
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in my understanding of what zero waste is, I really don’t
understand clearly what zero waste actually means.
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WEEK 1
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The challenge: Zero waste
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The plan was to buy in bulk and without package,
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but we forgot about a detail.
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What are we going to do with all these plastic bags?
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I am going to go myself to the supermarket,
to see if it is possible to be zero waste,
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Because maybe it is not even feasible
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We decided to go and buy fabric,
and then make our own bags,
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then, buy the products, and put them inside the fabric bags,
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We have to try and see if the people at the supermarket allows us to do it
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Well no one said anything at the supermarket,
They only looked at us weird…
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But everything went very well.
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Later on, we went shopping at the local market,
it was also kind of easy.
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During this time we have used the 5 „Rs“ of the zero waste movement
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Reject, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Reincorporate
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What are they all about?
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Reject simply means to be attentive that someone
will not be giving you something that you do not want,
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Like when you order a drink and someone gives you a straw,
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or that someone puts your shopping in a plastic bag,
or gives you a flyer,
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Reject means to be very attentive and say no thanks,
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Please do not give a straw, please don’t give me that accessory,
Is being very attentive and reject.
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The second step is to Reduce,
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Which consist on asking yourself,
do I really need what I am about to buy?
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The third step is to reuse,
And buy quality and long lasting stuff,
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so that you don’t have to be buying often
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We have always being told that recycling is a very great thing,
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But in terms of the environment and the energy recycling is not the optimal solution,
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Recycling requires a lot of energy, and it is something that we can avoid if we follow the 3 previous steps.
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The last one is to reincorporate, which means that when we have our organic waste,
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Clean and separated we can either
make compost, or take energy out of them in a digester.
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From both processes, we can have a natural fertilizer.
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This week was very intense because I went to get all
the things that we required to stop producing waste,
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From that, what took more energy was to find the milk,
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I searched on the web, and I have found
like the last milk store from back in the day,
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that still sell milk inside glass jars.
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I found a store of soaps and shampoo,
the soaps come without package and the shampoo is solid,
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and I have tried it and it leaves your hair clean and soft
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I wanted to discover where our waste is going
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not only from the internet or from books
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I wanted to go and see it with my own eyes.
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And, well I am a bit depressed,
Because it is very sad, what we saw yesterday
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It is terrible, there are mountains and mountains, especially of plastics,
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The hovels of the waste pickers that live there,
the conditions under which they are living are very sad,
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They live right next to the garbage, their kids are playing with garbage,
People eating there at the dump
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They don’t have access to clean water, there are no services and they live there
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The stream that flows from there
contains a lot of pollutants, heavy metals,
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It is a red colored water. Where does it go?
It filters in the aquifer mantle, and what does it pollute?
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It is also very sad the situation of the dogs that are living there,
they literally eat garbage,
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and they don’t have any other water to drink,
other than that polluted water,
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I don’t know what damage is it causing to their kidneys,
I just believe that any living being deserves that kind of life.
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Now we will go to the recycling center where we will deliver
all the garbage that we have accumulated during these past two months,
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And well, let’s go
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We will go deliver our waste, and they will give us vegetables and other products,
in exchange of our well-separated wastes
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The actions that we are implementing
with the purpose of not generating waste,
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Well they have brought to me a lot of satisfaction,
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Because I know that we are doing something
for our environment, even for our own health.
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I am very happy of participating on this project,
I believe that another benefit is that we are helping the local economy,
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Plus, we are eating healthier and fresher
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I believe that I underestimated the goal,
I am very surprised by all the reduction level we reached
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I am skeptical that we can reach the zero percent,
But it is an excellent exercise to see the level of reduction that we can reach.
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Waste does not exist in nature, everything is reused
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We can live our lives under a wiser logic
Like the logic of our planet.
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And if you use this? Versus that?
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In a returnable bottle taste better
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Say no to free samples
