- Joyce's birthday is coming up this Friday
and she had a great idea.
- Yeah I was like let's have a zero-waste party.
♪ Z roses, z roses, z, uh zero waste ♪
- Snacks, drinks--
- Yes.
- What else do we need?
- Decorations.
You know how a lot of Buzzfeed parties have thirst traps.
- Oh we need to make a zero-waste thirst trap.
- Yes.
So I sent the Facebook invites and I told everyone
to bring a cup because we're
zero-waste hotties this summer.
(instrumental music)
- So Joyce's party is in four hours and we gotta
get zero-waste snacks so I'm just gonna get raisins.
(laughing)
I'm just kidding, I'll get other more tasty snacks,
but we're gonna get a little bit of raisins
cause I like raisins.
So many options.
This says party right?
Look it!
I found some zero-waste chips.
Chips go quick, gotta get a lot of chips.
Who says you can't have fun and be zero-waste?
Look at this, I'm getting worms.
I'm like a mom trying to convince
people that something is fun.
Lemme get some chocolate covered almond clusters.
I think that's enough.
So I just bought six different types of snacks
for the party for $38.78.
- Everyone coming to my birthday party today
The party is zero-waste.
(classical music)
- We're in the hill sides of Los Angeles and we're going to
be foraging for our zero-waste party decorations today.
I'm just gathering flowers and we're going to compost them
after, compost the flowers.
Why buy decorations that will go to landfill and last
forever when you can have free decorations
that are cuter than the plastic ones anyway.
These are very majestic.
This is actually way more fun than going to the store.
It's very pleasant just gathering flowers on the hillside.
(hip-hop music)
Joyce has no idea what's going on.
(laughing)
(classical music)
I borrowed my friends cake holder and
I'm gonna go pick up a cake!
I got a guava cake for Joyce.
Thank you!
The cake costs $30.
(upbeat music)
We're making the thirst wall.
- But here's the thing, I feel like somebody in
L.A. would actually pay a lot of money for this.
It's looking great.
- Yeah!
- So I brought snacks only in these reusable containers.
I brought strawberries and I'm gonna put all my
moonshine in this mug.
- Wow that's a big moonshine bottle, I like it.
- Lots of ice.
- This is beautiful, Fern.
You have a natural talent.
- Ah, I'm gay.
- Okay.
- Yes!
- Are you ready to go see the zero-waste--
- Yes!
- Shenanigans we've been up to?
- Yes!
- Okay let's go.
- Oh my (beep) God this looks amazing.
- We made a thirst trap wall--
- I love it.
- With flowers that I foraged this afternoon.
- Whoa, for free!
- For free!
We have some zero-waste snacks that we got in bulk.
- Lovely.
- I think you're roommate brought the fruit
and she cut it up very beautifully.
- Oh wow!
(upbeat music)
(party music)
- Happy 24th birthday to me!
- Happy birthday Joyce!
- [Party-goers] (cheering)
- I love seeing everyone's reusable cups.
(nails tapping)
- Where does this go?
- I have a compost, here you can put it in the compost.
- Zero-waste!
- (yelling)
- We brought our One Direction cups and we're like siting
at home thinking "Which one are we gonna bring,
are we gonna bring Harry?
Are we gonna bring Liam?
Are we gonna leave Zayn at home?
- We had to go with the solid choice tonight,
we're going with the Irish favorite, Niall.
- I have Louis.
- [Party-goers] (cheering)
(hip-hop music)
- (laughing)
- Thank you!
(pop music)
- We're trying to light pasta for the candles.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- We're not on drugs!
♪ Happy birthday dear Joyce ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- Wow.
Thank you so much for coming.
From a girl who had no friends,
to too many friends to fit in her house.
- (cheering)
- I love all of you individually and
I want the best for you.
It's Gemini season.
- (cheering)
- Fuck it up!
Back that ass up!
- (cheering)
- One, Two.
- [Party-goers] Three!
(cheering)
- Okay, so trying to use pasta as candles doesn't really
work but we tried it for you.
- [Party-Goers] (cheering)
- (dance music)
- I am home now, the party is still raging,
but I'm gonna have sweet dreams tonight thinking about all
those red solo cups that we did not send to the landfill.
(squealing)
(classical music)
We're gonna look through the party trash!
♪ Party, party, party trash ♪
♪ Party trash ♪
I think we did pretty well.
- Let it be known that this trash is not the trash
that we made making our zero-waste party.
And we did our best to ask people to bring their
own cups and not to bring trash.
But you know people are people and they brought some trash.
- Yeah.
- So we're just gonna go through it.
- (laughing)
She's always dancing.
- I'm excited about going through trash.
So we'll set up recycling, landfill, and compost.
(bottles clatter)
- That was the worst ASMR of my life.
- (laughing)
(drum beat)
♪ Zero-Waste birthday ♪
♪ It's a zero-waste sorting ♪
♪ She's sorting things ♪
♪ She's sorting while I sing ♪
For pizza boxes you can recycle the top if
it's not food-soiled, but anything that's food-soiled can't
go in the recycling so this will go to landfill.
- What about chip bags?
- Those are trash because they're mixed material,
cause they're plastic on the outside and foil on the inside.
All the stuff in front of us is compost, and recycling.
The final verdict is that for a party of over 60 people,
this is all the landfill we made.
- Magic.
- [Auriyana] And it's not perfect but I think we did way
better than if we just didn't try to have
people reduce their trash at all.
- [Joyce] Yeah, having people be conscious about the mess
they make, even when you're all tipsy and turnt,
it's actually cool cause mostly everyone tried.
- What do you think in terms of time and money?
- I don't know what you did.
- (laughing)
In terms of time I think it's the same because
I still would have had to source decorations
and the cake but I just did it zero-waste.
And in terms of money, I spent a certain amount of money,
that is here, and it was not much.
- It wasn't.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Please let me know in the comments if you
would have a zero-waste party just like this.
And next week, we're gonna try to go
to the club with zero-waste.
♪ Ah back it up ♪
♪ Back it up zero-waste back it up ♪
♪ Hey all right back it up ♪
♪ Hey back it up ♪
- (laughing)
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