hi guys welcome back to my channel if you're new hey and if you're coming back
thanks for coming back.I'm about to do a 30-day zero waste challenge
what is zero waste ? zero waste is pretty much reducing your waste and the things
that you have that produce waste to zero I live in a big city I think this is
gonna be pretty complicated because everything I buy has plastic in it but
I'm gonna give it a try I probably to kill myself halfway through this let's
give it a try
okay so I'm bringing some jars these literally just have some olives in it I
bring out a little cart with some more jars and some plastic bags so let's go
shopping okay guys I thought it was gonna be really complicated to find a
place but I literally just did a google search and found this place right next to
my house that you can buy plastic free and in bulk okay so this place is
This place is 100 percent organic they had vegan cookies pastas cereals grains dried
fruit nuts etc it was super easy to use all you have to do is pull down the
lever to get as much as you want for the price that you want hey guys I
just got back from the zero waste supermarket it actually was really easy
surprisingly I was like no it was so easy I don't know if there's like a standard to
the zero waste thing but I literally just brought my container I filled it up
and that was it it was really easy so I wanted to show you guys what I've got
and how much it cost this was literally container with olives in it and I just
cleaned out and I put some cheerios inside multi-grain rice a cereal for
breakfast sea salt a mix of nuts and raisins oatmeal ah I'm so excited about
this buckwheat pasta nuts dried fruit this is plastic but the
cheat is I reuse this technically it's okay some vegan cookie
you could get them just like this honestly like I think it's really great
because for example if you don't want to get a big big amount I literally just
got this much of Himalayan salt I didn't want to pay like 10 euros I just got a
little bit I got all these spices in bulk
I literally just took this container and fills it up and that was it and then I
put on the little labels so I know what I have and it's so great because now I
have this container for the rest of my life essentially if I want to reuse it I
just take it and pay about twenty eight euros I thought it was a little
expensive but granted it is all organic so that's where the price is coming from in
the second place I went which I got all this stuff with only 11 euros 71 now my
next question is how the heck am I going to clean my house cleaning supplies
always come in plastic I don't know how people clean their hospitals out plastic
so that is my next venture
ok guys you will not believe it I think after speaking into the universe that
I'm gonna be doing 30 days zero waste all of a sudden these places are just like
popping up out of nowhere and so I'm really busy with work I was like I got
time they're making my own soap I was just walking in the city and I literally
saw soap on tap literally soap on tap the was the name of the place and look
what I have this is detergent and it's all organic detergent which means like
since it doesn't have some of these harsh chemicals I don't need to buy
softener and it's so much better for the environment you have time to make it
that's great but in this container you just take every single time and you fill
it up and that's it this is a liter and a half and this
costs me 7 euros this should last me about three months two or three months
okay and then for the other stuff I was actually really surprised all you need
is some vinegar and baking soda and that's it I've been cleaning my house
and it's been great I'm saving so much money in cleaning
supplies so cleaning supplies okay guys I just got back from the normal
supermarket I really wanted to go to a normal supermarket just to see how
sustainable this would be and this lady notice that I was not putting my
vegetables into bags and she was like what are you doing and when I told her
that I was doing at zero waste challenge and I'm also a vegan she began to tell
me oh I could never be a vegan I could never do that because it's so expensive
and I would love to do it but I just can't afford it I wanted to show you
guys all this food I got for literally fifteen dollars which is gonna last me a
month when I was looking into her car I saw some slices of salmon and and I just
asked you know how much was the salmon and she said it was about ten euros and
I said well ten euros if you're gonna eat it in one of two meals
I have $15 worth of food and this is gonna last me for a month so it's really
not expensive that is the biggest myth ever couldn't even fit everything on the
table I also have some potatoes over there these bags here you see of
chickpeas I actually brought myself to the grocery store and this also bad I
brought myself to the grocery store ever since going zero-waste doing this
challenge I mean a lot healthier I've been wanting to eat some snacks and I
was literally walking in the street once again and I saw potato chips that you
can buy in bulk right now it's in a plastic but I will show you that it is
reusable this bag so every time I go to this place I just have to reuse it so
that was a win so these are the things I got this week I got a reasonable water
bottle instead of plastic a bottle and I've been taking this around when I need
to get water from the tap or at a friend's house I also have a reusable
bag that I take to the grocery store which pretty much everyone and their mom
knows about I have a new bamboo toothbrush this is really
great it's just like any other toothbrush if it ever ends up in the
landfill I know that it will return back to the earth here is a menstrual cup but
there was a little bit of a learning curve with this but once you get it they
are amazing these are some reusable wood utensils that I use when I am out eating
this is one of my favorite things of all times is what I use to take out my
makeup it's like a reusable cotton pad it's not actually a reusable cotton pad
these actually bought on Amazon they're flack tating pads for pregnant women or
women with infants but they are so amazing you literally just put some oil
on it and take off your makeup and you just throw it into the washer and it
comes out clean just like this okay guys I just finished 30 days of zero waste I
did honestly it was not as hard as I expected at all I came into this
challenge really thinking that the only people that do this are super extreme
but I learned that the little changes that I made everybody can do some of the
main pros I found after doing the zero waste challenge is not being overwhelmed
with so many bags I have in my house and just plastic in general another thing as
I found myself eating a lot healthier because all processed food is in
packaging so I was really forced this month to eat a lot healthier than I
usually do okay the next thing I really loved about this zero waste challenge is
I actually saved a ton of money everything that I used in this 30 days
I've been reusing or I just made myself and the last thing I really thought was
a great Pro about zero away I just feel really good I feel like I'm consciously
making an effort to make a difference in this world and I feel like that feeling
at the end of the I rejected over 100 plastic bags this
month and those bats are never gonna be in a landfill somewhere makes me feel
really really accomplished okay some cons I found with the zero waste
challenge is there's a lot of things I really do just miss having around the
house I miss having my soy yogurts and I miss having like processed junk food
you're not gonna die on zero waste there's always a ton of food but there's
a lot of processed food that I just really alike that you just can't get in
zero waste I'm sure there's lots of recipes about
how you can make your own a yogurt and all the things that I really kind of
missed in my diet I honestly didn't feel like zero waste was any more
inconvenient than going to the grocery store and then coming back home and like
sorting through all the plastic and like swimming in plastic are definitely
things that are literally impossible to get in zero waste it's something like
gifts for people that's something they really really want I don't think if you
live in a city you're actually 100 percent zero waste because even when you
go out it produces waste so it does make you kind of feel like hmm sometimes I
felt really bad about some of the waste that I was producing even though I
wasn't the one actually keeping the waste in my house but I know this thing
I'm doing is producing waste made me feel kind of like but with that being
said I do feel like every single person can make simple changes to reduce their
waste to at least 80% of the waste that they make and reduce reduce reduce I do
truly believe that after this challenge that reusing is a lot more effective and
a lot better for the environment veterus I thought what that means that I
encourage everyone to go out there you can do it I'm just a normal person that
lives in a big city and it actually makes you feel really great in the end
when you accomplish it so I will leave you guys with that thank you so much
watching this video if you liked it please give me a thumbs up and comment
down below how do you reduce your waste in your home and do you think you could
actually do if every day to zero waste challenge
I would love to hear about it okay see you in the next video bye
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