Tag: Global warming

30 days no trash-#3

30 days no trash is a challenge/project I created to raise awareness about the trash crisis and to empower people. This post is about what it means to be zero waste and how you can easily reduce your waste.

To learn more about this project, check out this previous post: https://tigershakti.org/2023/06/21/30-days-no-trash-2/

If you want to learn about what the trash crisis is, click this link: https://tigershakti.org/2023/06/21/30-days-no-trash-2/

What does it mean to be zero waste?

Zero waste is a lifestyle in which a person produces as little or no waste as possible. There are multiple principles of zero waste including: Rethink, reduce, recycle, compost, reuse, recovery material, residual management, and refuse (“What Is Zero Waste? Learn about the Movement & Why It’s Important | Zero Waste”, 2023). We need to rethink how we get stuff, and find ways to exist without using single-use plastic. To become more sustainable, we need to first reduce our waste. We can also reuse our waste by recycling and composting. We don’t always need new things, and instead can fix up old things and make them useful again. We must be responsible with how we deal with our waste. The easiest way to create less waste is to refuse. If someone doesn’t create waste, they don’t have to deal with it.

How can I reduce my waste?

There are many things that a person can use to reduce their waste. There are soap bars instead of liquid soap in a disposable container, silicone baking mats instead of parchment paper or aluminum foil, silk or bamboo floss instead of plastic floss, and more (Kellogg, 2017). Some things someone can do to produce less waste include: buying things in bulk, reusing or donating old clothes, making homemade cleaning products, and going to a local farmers market (Weeden, 2022, Kellog, 2017). There are also stores that sell things in bulk without packaging so it is easier to create less waste. The way these stores work is that the customer brings their own container, fills it up with whatever thing they are buying, and then go pay. Stores like these often sell sustainable alternatives like biodegradable floss too. There are many different ways to live a zero waste lifestyle or just be more environmentally friendly. It is important that we all do what we can to save our planet. Recycling uses less energy than it takes to make new stuff, and it can lower the frequency of natural disasters that happen by preventing carbon emissions (“Why Should We Reduce Waste?”, 2022).

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30 Days No Trash-#2

30 days no trash is a project/challenge I created and did to raise awareness of the trash crisis. To learn more about this project, check out this post:

https://tigershakti.org/2023/06/14/30-days-no-trash-challenge/

What is the trash crisis?

2 billion tons or 4.5 trillion pounds of trash are produced globally every year. This trash leaks greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, and is the third largest methane producer in the US (Clifford, 2021). The U.S. creates the most waste out of all the countries in the world, with the average American throwing away around 5 pounds a day. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans (HWH environmental, 2022). Almost every aspect of our lives creates waste. It takes 872 gallons of water to just produce 1 gallon of wine (Christie, 2018).

What can be done about it?

Evidently, we need to find a way to deal with this increasing amount of trash, and one of those solutions is recycling and composting. Recycling trash is actually cheaper than sending waste to a landfill, with a cost of $30 a ton to recycle trash and $50 a ton to send trash to a landfill. The average American throws away 1200 pounds of trash that is compostable every year (HWH environmental, 2022). Composting tackles two problems in our society – it provides a use for food waste, and it makes nutritious soil that can be used to grow organic, healthy food. Also, if farmers use compost to feed their plants instead of chemical fertilizers that degrade soil and pollute water, that is a win-win-win.

Composting can be done at home! You can collect your food scraps and either donate them to your local farmer, or you can create your own compost bin in your backyard!

Being environmentally responsible does not have to mean strictly creating zero waste for a month, it can mean doing small things everyday to make a difference.

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30 Days NO TRASH-#1

The 30 days no trash challenge is a project I created to raise awareness about the trash crisis. For this project, I generated zero trash for 30 days. This post will be the first of a series of my progress and account of this journey. The requirements for my project were that I could recycle, reuse, and compost my “waste” items. While this project might sound easy at first, it is fundamentally hard to do. In a society like ours, it is next to if not impossible to survive and live without having a negative impact on our planet. To get even the basic necessities we need to survive harms our environment. Thankfully, I only have to not throw anything away for 30 days (so easy, right?…). 

Stay tuned for part two of this zero waste series!

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Palm oil and its affects on our environment! Global warming #3

If you have been reading my blog posts recently , (witch I thank you for) you will know that I did a post about global warming and things we can do about it. If you haven’t read that, you can check it out here: https://tigershakti.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/global-warming-part-two/

But now for this post! This post is going to be about palm oil and it’s affects on our environment. Because lots of people don’t even know what it is and how bad palm oil is. So on that note, let’s get started!

Palm oil itself is not bad, but how it is harvested and grown is the problem. Large palm oil industries chop down and decimate forests and rain forests to make room for palm oil plantations. Now, you might be thinking, why is that so bad? Yes trees are being cut down, but the big palm oil planing industry’s are planting oil palm trees too! The problem is that palm oil trees just can’t sustain life and biodiversity like a rain forest or forest can. In a rainforest, there are many, many different types of trees, and all of them together, is what makes up the rain forests diversity and ability to sustain so much life. And when you chop it all down, or burn it all and replace it will one type of tree, oil palm, that just destroys the biodiversity and life.

Now you might be thinking, why palm oil? Well, palm oil is basically the cheapest vegetable oil. And so that is why.

What can we do?! It is very important that we do something about palm oil. Many people don’t even know about the problem of palm oil. And another thing, palm oil is in so many every day items! Like soap, food, etc. Now you might be thinking, what are we going to do about this? Palm oil is in so many things! The best thing that you can do is gradually stop eating or using palm as much as we can.

There is also something called sustainably harvested palm oil. And it is exactly what it sounds like. But even with sustainability harvested palm oil, it is best to leave it and avoid palm oil all together. This is super easy, all you have to do is check the ingredients for palm oil!

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Global warming part two!

In this post, we are going to discuss some things we can do to help combat climate change. Let’s get started!

One very important thing that we would do, is stop buying products with palm oil in it. These products can range from food to soap! But why is palm oil bad? Here is why:

Palm oil it self isn’t bad, (there are still experiments that scientists are working on), but the way we harvest palm oil is HORRIBLE! Palm oil industries raze/cut down rain and normal forests to make room for palm oil trees. And what’s even worse, is that forests are a key biome on our earth that helps get rid of co2! (Carbon dioxide)Now you might be thinking, well, they are cutting forests down, but they are still planting trees. So it’s not all that bad, right? The sad answer is no. In crucial forests, there are a HUGE variety of trees, and oil palm trees just can’t sustain forest life.

The next thing we can do is use less single use plastic. Single use plastic is EVERYWHERE! In our soap bottles, packaging, bags. And yes, we can’t just randomly say, oh! We aren’t going to use single use plastic at all anymore! That is what I wish we could do, but sadly it is not as simple as that. Firstly, Mose of our food is packed in single use plastic! So unless you are growing all your meals, good luck with that. Also, for many people it is the cheapest way to eat, or get water in a storm, or get soap. So we need to do this little by little. I go over this in a different post called how to get single use plastics out of our life! Check it out here:

For now though, the easiest ways are to use a washable water bottle, reusable utensils, etc.

Because this post is already getting a bit long, I am going to end it here. But remember, there are ALWAYS ways to help our planet.

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