How to go zero-waste

Discover simple steps to embrace a **zero waste lifestyle** and protect our planet! Start your eco-friendly journey today.

Choose words from the word bank to complete the text. What is a zero-waste lifestyle?. This type of lifestyle is all about promoting responsible choices regarding the prevention of our environment. One of the main goals is to reduce global pollution by reducing the amount of garbage that winds up in the oceans and landfills. Therefore, the target is to make as little trash as possible. Here are some beginner’s steps that can lead you to a waste-free lifestyle.1 A medal to metal! Plastic straws are a single-use item and contribute greatly to environmental pollution. So, why don’t you ditch those and use a better alternative – metal straws! Not only they are eco-friendlybut are also long-lasting, easy to clean and can be used over and over again.2 Food packaging? No, no! Buy products in larger quantities. Although not everything is available package-free, more and more supermarkets provide the option of buying in bulk at least products such as flour, grains, beans, spices, sugar, cereals and even candy. Make sure to bring reusable containers.3 No more plastic bags! It is widely known that only a small percentage of plastic bags get recycled, while most of them end up in landfills. Nowadays every grocery store sells cloth bags. So, you have no excuses!4 Good-bye plastic toothbrush! A bamboo toothbrush will offer you the same cleaning quality as a plastic toothbrush with the only difference that the bamboo one is biodegradable. Since plastic brushes can take up to 1000 years to decompose, it is good to have this option in mind.5 Message in a bottle: Worldwide more than 60 million water bottles end up in the trash…daily. Let that sink it. Although 20 to 30% of them end up being recycled, it is still not an excuse to keep on using plastic bottles. Therefore, a small change such as using a reusable water bottle can make all the difference.6 Why would you toss out food scraps when they can be composted? Instead of throwing them into the garbage, put them in a compost bin and let them decay naturally. Not only will this benefit mother Earth but it will also benefit your plants. Decomposed organic material can enrich the soil with numerous nutrients and do wonders for your plants.As a society that is constantly on the go and always looking for convenience, it can be quite hard to change our habits overnight. However, the tips mentioned above are a great start that will allow you to join the zero waste lifestyle and do your utmost to protect the environment around you. VOCABULARY Match changes in the world's weather, in particular the fact that it is believed to be getting warmer as a result of human activity climate change a natural or chemical substance that is spread on the land or given to plants, to make plants grow well fertilizer a gas contributes to climate change, especially carbon dioxide greenhouse gas relating to forms of energy that are produced using the sun, wind, etc., or from crops, rather than those using fuels such as oil or coa renewable an amount of a substance that is produced and sent out into the air that is harmful to the environment, especially carbon dioxide emission the conditions in the air above the earth such as wind, rain, or temperature, especially at a particular time over a particular area weather the general weather conditions usually found in a particular place climate a place where rubbish is buried landfill able to decay naturally and in a way that is not harmful biodegradable decaying plant material that is added to soil to improve its quality compost that has been designed to do the least possible damage to the environment eco-friendly the material on the surface of the ground in which plants grow soil to sort and collect rubbish in order to treat it and produce useful materials that can be used again recycle Go zero waste! What would you do to reduce plastic use? Write an idea in each tag.