zero waste fail #1
My first fail was to start zero waste immedeatly after I found out about it and I didn’t think about how I would succeed.
I vigorosly started to only buy food without plastic packaging and that meant vegetabales, fruits and pasta in cardboard boxes was pretty much all I ate at that moment.
In switzerland there is this stupid rule that organic produce may not be mistaken by the buyer for normal produce. This regulation results in excessive plastic packaging of organic produce. That ment organic produce was of my buy list.
Meat as also eliminated because I didn’t want to use tupperware to buy it and most stores didn’t think about letting me purchase meat with my own containers.
I broke of my experiment in trying to live zero waste because it strained my mental health and I was exhausted trying to find food without plastic packaging I liked to eat. I am a person who lives for good food, and I don’t mean fancy food. A good strawberry can give me so much joy or a good stake can make me happy for a whole day. So eating a diet of mainly pasta (which by the way I never loved anyways) was horrible for my mental and physical health.
Solution: Start slowly integrating zero waste in your daily routine. The second time I started I was detirmend to succeed and I reasearched other peoples fails and tips on starting zero waste.
Easy things to start with:
-bring a reusable water bottel everywhere you go (glass is way better than aluminium in my point of view and there will be a post about why)
-bring a cloth shopping bag with you wherever you go
-buy/make reusable produce bags
-shop at a local farmers market (most farmers sell their produce with less plastic packaging or none at all and you’ll get more seasonal produce)