Laura Nitzberg
@LauraNitz · 3:45
Zero Waste Life style
Hi. Swell. How is everyone today? So today I think I'm going to talk about 0000 waste life style middle school science teacher. And today in class we were talking about out how we can reduce our waste just to help the planet. And we were talking about what happens to plastic after it actually gets thrown away, et cetera. So first off, I want to talk about what a zero waste lifestyle is in case anyone didn't know
Silly Boy
@danielpomper · 0:31
Hey, Laura, thanks for sharing all this. I'm wondering if you have any suggestions as to like, where to start. I've tried kind of before, and I always kind of have trouble because it's really, really hard to live zero a waste. And I honestly think that a lot of times people push the responsibility onto consumers. But if we were to just reduce the packaging and stuff in the first place, we might not have this problem. Curious is what you think
Ryan Cartier
@Cartier · 0:30
Daniel, I'm just wondering if you actually wrote down everything that you throw out during the day. Would that be a list that then you could look at and decide how to not throw those things out and what the alternatives are for like one thing one day. And then if you did that a couple times, would that be a way of starting to chip away and reduce the stuff
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 3:15
The city also provides 96 gallon compost and plant debris trash cans for green waste only. But those are free. Right. So the city, by their rate structure, is encouraging people to reuse food and plant waste or have the city pick that up and reuse it. They're encouraging that by making it free. But they are disincentivising using the trash cans by charging more for that