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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Around 26% of toys bought at Christmas are neglected by the end of January, and 40% will be thrown out within the first 3 months of being unwrapped. Combined weight of electronic toys comes to 3.2b kg (environmentjournal.online)

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[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And one of my kids Birthday is just a few weeks before, and the other a few weeks after.

The house just explodes with crap between November and January.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

My daughter is in early Jan... this year literally made us call our mortgage broker and start looking for a bigger house.