Sustainability

No Waste, No Problem

Once COVID-19 hit, my zero-waste lifestyle started to fall apart. Suddenly, waste was one of the last things on my mind and maintaining this lifestyle became unimportant. Some zero-waste influencers, like Lauren Singer, @trashisfortossers on Instagram, felt the same.

No Waste, No Problem

This summer, I started to feel a bit hypocritical about my environmental footprint. I was having immense anxiety about climate change and was preaching that action needs to be taken to stop it, but was still supporting fast fashion and throwing away three single-use plastic water bottles a day. It’s not just about personally producing less waste; it’s also about not supporting the companies that function to pollute and produce mass amounts of plastic.