living more sustainably and having less of a consumeristic mindset is so
freeing and gives you a sense of peace and serenity knowing that true happiness lies
within hello everyone and welcome back to my channel where aim to bring everything
for minimalism sustainability self-care and self-development
growing up with two nature lovers my mom and dad i was exposed very early on about caring for mother
earth and her resources my mom would speak about our carbon footprint and how we need to be aware
of it and reduce it as far as possible long before this was a term used as commonly as it is today
and my dad was forever in the garden planting a new set of vegetables and herbs
or a new tree so let's dive right into these hacks and habits choose that imperfect tomato
that you wouldn't normally pick most people don't buy fruits and vegetables that have a dent or
is bruised and almost always this ends up in the landfill food waste is a real concern in the world
and in essay a third of food is never consumed and ends up in the rubbish dumps according to wwf
why is this the case when there is so much poverty in the world you may think this is a figure for
a developing country with no proper measures to reduce this waste but if you follow matt homewood
from copenhagen you will see that this is not the case and even in first world countries there is so
much food waste there seems to be a disconnect between what i want to add we've become numb to
the issues outside of me and my life possibly also feeling like we cannot do anything in our personal
capacities and this is far from the truth with apps such as audio that help reduce and redirect
food waste from ending up in the landfills and with people such as matt doing their part you're
able to raise awareness and feed someone who would otherwise go hungry food wastage comes at a very
high price to the economy and the environment with water energy and other resources going
into producing it reducing food waste could be a fundamental strategy to improving food security
we as individuals have a voice and a choice be conscious of how and where you spend your money
you're essentially voting with your money when you buy goods and are supporting allowing those
industries to thrive another more active way you can voice your opinion is by writing to
legislatures or a company you think should be producing more sustainable items whether this
is through the packaging of their items or using more ethically sourced ingredients or
anything else you're in disagreement with we the people can make a change
in our consumeristic ways we don't think twice about using and replacing household items from
toothpaste to shampoo and anything else in general most people use way more than necessary when it
comes to these items every single year 1.5 billion toothpaste tubes end up in landfills in the u.s
alone and the plastic in those tubes need 500 years to degrade that means brushing your teeth
every day contributes to plastic in landfills and in the oceans in a big way but we can't
exactly stop brushing our teeth so what do we do well it comes back to my point of consuming less
it is said that all we need as adults to brush our teeth is a pea-sized amount of toothpaste
so starting by reducing our consumption may be a start it may be a low-cost item and you
don't mind replacing it but always consider things beyond that the resources used to produce the item
the transportation and storage cost and then the eventual disposal of this item
consuming less of anything in general will help save the environment and save your pocket in the
process what will be preferred will be looking to move to a more sustainable source of such products
consider items from places like faithful to nature that come without the plastic packaging and are
more sustainable source of this product there's always a way to be more sustainable in your daily
life so be more conscious of your actions and as always be the change you want to see
you