M11.5 Zero Waste Life

Like the young woman said in her Ted talk, quitting plastic is not an easy thing to do. The past two years I've switched to living a more minimalistic lifestyle and through that, I discovered about zero waste life. As I learned how people live a zero waste life and compared their way of life to my lifestyle, I realized how it can be difficult. Like the speaker mentioned, you have to do a lot of research to build a zero waste lifestyle. Although I cannot see myself living a zero waste lifestyle, I try my best to not produce that much waste. Similar to the speaker, I also get frustrated when people get take-away food and the plastic that comes with it that will be eventually be thrown away in the next hour or so. I always meal-prep and bring my own lunch to work so I don't have to take-away food. I always use a reusable water bottle. Recently, with Starbucks slowly phasing out straws in their stores, had got me to consider using a reusable straw. I rarely buy drinks but on those occasions I do, I don't want to use a plastic straw. I always carry reusable bags with me whenever I go grocery shopping. One thing I want to improve on is to not shop so much on Amazon because of all the plastic it produces from its packaging.