I want some right way a little ways as
you can see because behind me
he's a reusable messy cup the other one
in their cycle P so you take two seconds
to think in your opinion which one do
you think is the most sustainable okay
so those who think it is the the paper
cup please raise your hand paper cup
yeah okay good
the reusable plastic cup raise your hand
okay that's not a bad start cool so I'm
gonna take this five minutes to share
with you a simple idea a simple idea
with a big impact keeping our planet
healthy keeping our planet healthy so
that our future generations can live and
thrive as well and this is what
inheritance means to me when I came to
the Netherlands I was 17 I was extremely
excited to start a new life in a new
country and so are all my new friends
but we all had the same problem we had
an exciting new life a busy first week
and no time to go to those big stores to
get the essential for our room so with a
few friend of mine we decided to help
those international students moving
comfy by providing a starter kit for
their student room that would include
items such as duvet pillows or kitchen
equipment and by doing that we enable
them to focus on what really mattered
making new friends and having fun well
and study right
and quickly not only were we helping
students primary school but also tons of
students throughout the country and
everything seemed fine until we realized
there was a huge problem a huge problem
that was contributing to the 2000 kilos
of waste each and every one of us
produce each year we had this big
realization that when those students are
moving out after the six months exchange
they didn't have a choice but to take
their almost brand-new do they pillows
bedding and and dumped them on the
mountain of linen piling up in front of
each student residence they didn't have
a choice for them it was clear this was
trash and they were all thinking well
who would be crazy enough to sleep in my
duvet and it was true nobody wanted
those dirty beddings so you see a lot of
people want to act more sustainably but
when they're not given the opportunity
what can they do so this got us thinking
until we came up with a simple
sustainable solution who said that
beddings or single-use didn't wean then
the house that called the washing
machine and so that's when we decided to
create an acai clean process an acai
clean process so that we can make use
again of all these valuable items let's
take an example in this process each
today is carefully analyzed sanitized
and process so that it can be given
second life and not as composed or
insulation fiber but as an actual
upcycle duvet that can be used again and
by doing that
had just created an almost carbon
neutral debate that could be used again
by the next international students we
had redefined what we considered as
waste and reused it and we made it
easier for students they just had to
leave it in the room so why am I telling
you all this right now well I am telling
you this because I deeply believe that
the solution to waste is not always in
those big multi-million dollars projects
I believe that the solution to waste is
in what we consider as waste and what we
make as waste so today I want you to
look around in your apartment in your
office at university and think about
what you are using should you be using
all that paper for work we all know that
it's made by chopping down trees right
what about those plastic coffee capsules
cannot you find an easily implementable
solution to that just remember it is all
about simple sustainable solutions and
let's be honest here I am not the most
of sustainable person in this room and
probably no one here is but we can all
strive for those changes with a critical
eye it is all about what we consider as
waste and what we make is waste and by
doing just that not only will it please
our planet this will help build and
create the mindset and culture we will
leave behind for the next generations
thank you
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