Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
First of all, it’s important to understand that Zero Waste doesn’t mean no trash, but it means no needless stuff. Indeed, to live Zero Trash is virtually impossible. However, to live Zero Needless Stuff and make sure to use/consume/buy/do only what we actually need is absolutely possible.
So it’s also clear that a Zero Waste life is not about doing just a couple of swaps of daily objects or eliminate some package (even though they’re always more than welcome!). Zero Waste is about changing the reasons and motivations with which we face every single day and act, because it means to start paying attention to the impact we have on the environment and society, basing our choices on it.
Indeed, to live Zero Waste means to come out of the consumerist viewpoint of uncontrolled purchasing, massive owning, and indiscriminate squandering, that causes deforestation, the disappearance of biodiversity, pollution and, of course, the climate crisis.
That’s why, as we were saying, to live Zero Waste doesn’t mean substituting a single-use product with its biodegradable or compostable alternative available on the market, but to find a way to do without or replace it with something that doesn’t just end up in the garbage, if not after years of usage, and that can be recycled at the end of its life. It doesn’t mean to buy 10 different versions of the same reusable alternative because they are all different from one another. It doesn’t mean to buy the items of the only sustainable collection of a very unsustainable brand (see fast fashion, for example). It doesn’t mean to use something because “it’s biodegradable!”. Long story short, it means to live more consciously and do without what we don’t need – which besides consuming our planet, consumes our money and our health too.
Fear not: nobody is perfect and no one can live a perfectly Zero Waste life! However, this doesn’t mean we can’t do something that makes the difference: the important thing is to do the best we can.
Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
First of all, it’s important to understand that Zero Waste doesn’t mean no trash, but it means no needless stuff. Indeed, to live Zero Trash is virtually impossible. However, to live Zero Needless Stuff and make sure to use/consume/buy/do only what we actually need is absolutely possible.
So it’s also clear that a Zero Waste life is not about doing just a couple of swaps of daily objects or eliminate some package (even though they’re always more than welcome!). Zero Waste is about changing the reasons and motivations with which we face every single day and act, because it means to start paying attention to the impact we have on the environment and society, basing our choices on it.
Indeed, to live Zero Waste means to come out of the consumerist viewpoint of uncontrolled purchasing, massive owning, and indiscriminate squandering, that causes deforestation, the disappearance of biodiversity, pollution and, of course, the climate crisis.
That’s why, as we were saying, to live Zero Waste doesn’t mean substituting a single-use product with its biodegradable or compostable alternative available on the market, but to find a way to do without or replace it with something that doesn’t just end up in the garbage, if not after years of usage, and that can be recycled at the end of its life. It doesn’t mean to buy 10 different versions of the same reusable alternative because they are all different from one another. It doesn’t mean to buy the items of the only sustainable collection of a very unsustainable brand (see fast fashion, for example). It doesn’t mean to use something because “it’s biodegradable!”. Long story short, it means to live more consciously and do without what we don’t need – which besides consuming our planet, consumes our money and our health too.
Fear not: nobody is perfect and no one can live a perfectly Zero Waste life! However, this doesn’t mean we can’t do something that makes the difference: the important thing is to do the best we can.
Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
This guide is made of 16 chapters:
This guide on how to live Zero Waste is a collective and ever-growing text, a collection of ideas for those who want to act and develop a more sustainable, healthier, cheaper and more collective way of living. Indeed, living Zero Waste is a very simple act, yet incredibly revolutionary, that takes care of both people and the environment.
We don’t want to be identified as consumers anymore, we don’t want to aggravate the climate crisis and the pollution with an unsustainable lifestyle. We wrote this Zero Waste guide because we want to help the planet, not consume it. Because everything starts from there, from our consumptions, that we mainly express through our purchases.
Our purchasing power is gigantic: by choosing to spend our money on a certain product or service, we make it stronger, as if we were saying that we like it and that we want more. Hence, by choosing consciously on what we spend our money, we can strengthen what we want companies to produce more and more, and protest against what we consider negative for the people and planet by denying it our money. Whether we realize it or not, this is an action we make daily through our choices, our purchases and our way of living. Surely, a Zero Waste life can help us a lot in choosing more easily what to buy and, most importantly, why, by reminding us that the first and only way to eliminate waste and trash is to not make/buy them.
So after years of research, curiosity, dialogue and practical daily life, Inspire is happy to introduce to you an open guide to eliminate single-use from your life and live Zero Waste – and we are not talking just about plastic, but about all single-use products, but of all single-use products and everything we don’t need that that fill our daily lives without us even noticing.
As we said earlier, it’s a free and collaborative project! Do you have something to add? Write us! We’re happy to implement this guide with your ideas, to create what we really wish for: a version that can be as rich, informed, helpful, and up-to-date as possible.
First of all, it’s important to understand that Zero Waste doesn’t mean no trash, but it means no needless stuff. Indeed, to live Zero Trash is virtually impossible. However, to live Zero Needless Stuff and make sure to use/consume/buy/do only what we actually need is absolutely possible.
So it’s also clear that a Zero Waste life is not about doing just a couple of swaps of daily objects or eliminate some package (even though they’re always more than welcome!). Zero Waste is about changing the reasons and motivations with which we face every single day and act, because it means to start paying attention to the impact we have on the environment and society, basing our choices on it.
Indeed, to live Zero Waste means to come out of the consumerist viewpoint of uncontrolled purchasing, massive owning, and indiscriminate squandering, that causes deforestation, the disappearance of biodiversity, pollution and, of course, the climate crisis.
That’s why, as we were saying, to live Zero Waste doesn’t mean substituting a single-use product with its biodegradable or compostable alternative available on the market, but to find a way to do without or replace it with something that doesn’t just end up in the garbage, if not after years of usage, and that can be recycled at the end of its life. It doesn’t mean to buy 10 different versions of the same reusable alternative because they are all different from one another. It doesn’t mean to buy the items of the only sustainable collection of a very unsustainable brand (see fast fashion, for example). It doesn’t mean to use something because “it’s biodegradable!”. Long story short, it means to live more consciously and do without what we don’t need – which besides consuming our planet, consumes our money and our health too.
Fear not: nobody is perfect and no one can live a perfectly Zero Waste life! However, this doesn’t mean we can’t do something that makes the difference: the important thing is to do the best we can.
Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
This practical guide to how to live Zero Waste explores the many ways to eliminate waste, garbage and single-use products from our lives, cutting on emissions and pollution.
This guide is made of 16 chapters:
This guide on how to live Zero Waste is a collective and ever-growing text, a collection of ideas for those who want to act and develop a more sustainable, healthier, cheaper and more collective way of living. Indeed, living Zero Waste is a very simple act, yet incredibly revolutionary, that takes care of both people and the environment.
We don’t want to be identified as consumers anymore, we don’t want to aggravate the climate crisis and the pollution with an unsustainable lifestyle. We wrote this Zero Waste guide because we want to help the planet, not consume it. Because everything starts from there, from our consumptions, that we mainly express through our purchases.
Our purchasing power is gigantic: by choosing to spend our money on a certain product or service, we make it stronger, as if we were saying that we like it and that we want more. Hence, by choosing consciously on what we spend our money, we can strengthen what we want companies to produce more and more, and protest against what we consider negative for the people and planet by denying it our money. Whether we realize it or not, this is an action we make daily through our choices, our purchases and our way of living. Surely, a Zero Waste life can help us a lot in choosing more easily what to buy and, most importantly, why, by reminding us that the first and only way to eliminate waste and trash is to not make/buy them.
So after years of research, curiosity, dialogue and practical daily life, Inspire is happy to introduce to you an open guide to eliminate single-use from your life and live Zero Waste – and we are not talking just about plastic, but about all single-use products, but of all single-use products and everything we don’t need that that fill our daily lives without us even noticing.
As we said earlier, it’s a free and collaborative project! Do you have something to add? Write us! We’re happy to implement this guide with your ideas, to create what we really wish for: a version that can be as rich, informed, helpful, and up-to-date as possible.
First of all, it’s important to understand that Zero Waste doesn’t mean no trash, but it means no needless stuff. Indeed, to live Zero Trash is virtually impossible. However, to live Zero Needless Stuff and make sure to use/consume/buy/do only what we actually need is absolutely possible.
So it’s also clear that a Zero Waste life is not about doing just a couple of swaps of daily objects or eliminate some package (even though they’re always more than welcome!). Zero Waste is about changing the reasons and motivations with which we face every single day and act, because it means to start paying attention to the impact we have on the environment and society, basing our choices on it.
Indeed, to live Zero Waste means to come out of the consumerist viewpoint of uncontrolled purchasing, massive owning, and indiscriminate squandering, that causes deforestation, the disappearance of biodiversity, pollution and, of course, the climate crisis.
That’s why, as we were saying, to live Zero Waste doesn’t mean substituting a single-use product with its biodegradable or compostable alternative available on the market, but to find a way to do without or replace it with something that doesn’t just end up in the garbage, if not after years of usage, and that can be recycled at the end of its life. It doesn’t mean to buy 10 different versions of the same reusable alternative because they are all different from one another. It doesn’t mean to buy the items of the only sustainable collection of a very unsustainable brand (see fast fashion, for example). It doesn’t mean to use something because “it’s biodegradable!”. Long story short, it means to live more consciously and do without what we don’t need – which besides consuming our planet, consumes our money and our health too.
Fear not: nobody is perfect and no one can live a perfectly Zero Waste life! However, this doesn’t mean we can’t do something that makes the difference: the important thing is to do the best we can.
Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
This practical guide to how to live Zero Waste explores the many ways to eliminate waste, garbage and single-use products from our lives, cutting on emissions and pollution.
This guide is made of 16 chapters:
This guide on how to live Zero Waste is a collective and ever-growing text, a collection of ideas for those who want to act and develop a more sustainable, healthier, cheaper and more collective way of living. Indeed, living Zero Waste is a very simple act, yet incredibly revolutionary, that takes care of both people and the environment.
We don’t want to be identified as consumers anymore, we don’t want to aggravate the climate crisis and the pollution with an unsustainable lifestyle. We wrote this Zero Waste guide because we want to help the planet, not consume it. Because everything starts from there, from our consumptions, that we mainly express through our purchases.
Our purchasing power is gigantic: by choosing to spend our money on a certain product or service, we make it stronger, as if we were saying that we like it and that we want more. Hence, by choosing consciously on what we spend our money, we can strengthen what we want companies to produce more and more, and protest against what we consider negative for the people and planet by denying it our money. Whether we realize it or not, this is an action we make daily through our choices, our purchases and our way of living. Surely, a Zero Waste life can help us a lot in choosing more easily what to buy and, most importantly, why, by reminding us that the first and only way to eliminate waste and trash is to not make/buy them.
So after years of research, curiosity, dialogue and practical daily life, Inspire is happy to introduce to you an open guide to eliminate single-use from your life and live Zero Waste – and we are not talking just about plastic, but about all single-use products, but of all single-use products and everything we don’t need that that fill our daily lives without us even noticing.
As we said earlier, it’s a free and collaborative project! Do you have something to add? Write us! We’re happy to implement this guide with your ideas, to create what we really wish for: a version that can be as rich, informed, helpful, and up-to-date as possible.
First of all, it’s important to understand that Zero Waste doesn’t mean no trash, but it means no needless stuff. Indeed, to live Zero Trash is virtually impossible. However, to live Zero Needless Stuff and make sure to use/consume/buy/do only what we actually need is absolutely possible.
So it’s also clear that a Zero Waste life is not about doing just a couple of swaps of daily objects or eliminate some package (even though they’re always more than welcome!). Zero Waste is about changing the reasons and motivations with which we face every single day and act, because it means to start paying attention to the impact we have on the environment and society, basing our choices on it.
Indeed, to live Zero Waste means to come out of the consumerist viewpoint of uncontrolled purchasing, massive owning, and indiscriminate squandering, that causes deforestation, the disappearance of biodiversity, pollution and, of course, the climate crisis.
That’s why, as we were saying, to live Zero Waste doesn’t mean substituting a single-use product with its biodegradable or compostable alternative available on the market, but to find a way to do without or replace it with something that doesn’t just end up in the garbage, if not after years of usage, and that can be recycled at the end of its life. It doesn’t mean to buy 10 different versions of the same reusable alternative because they are all different from one another. It doesn’t mean to buy the items of the only sustainable collection of a very unsustainable brand (see fast fashion, for example). It doesn’t mean to use something because “it’s biodegradable!”. Long story short, it means to live more consciously and do without what we don’t need – which besides consuming our planet, consumes our money and our health too.
Fear not: nobody is perfect and no one can live a perfectly Zero Waste life! However, this doesn’t mean we can’t do something that makes the difference: the important thing is to do the best we can.
Another crucial reflection is that, for the way manufacturing works at the moment, recycling is not a solution, but a particularly comfortable excuse that allows us to not change our lifestyle without weighing down our conscience.
As Annie Leonard rightfully said: if you entered your home and found it flooded, with the kitchen tap running, what would your first action be? Would you first close the tap, or mop the floor, with the tap still running?
Recycling without first ‘closing the tap’ of consumption is exactly like mopping the floor while the water is still running and flooding everything. Logically, the first step is to stop the production of new materials and new single-use products. Only then can recycling become an actual solution.
How can we stop production? By asking companies to stop producing that specific product, of course. This means petitions, boycotting, political actions and brand audits. But first and foremost, it means not buying that specific product anymore, aka that future waste, or not using that specific service anymore, because too polluting. Companies only produce stuff that is demanded by the consumer. No purchase, no production.
So, more generally speaking, we need to reduce consumption. Reduce is the keyword of a Zero Waste lifestyle: to reduce the shopping, the squandering, the quantity, the immediacy…and ultimately, the pretenses. To come out of the “fast-life” and adopt the perspective that the majority of purchases we make every day are for products we DO NOT need and that, on the other hand, actually poison us.
There are three questions that can help us change and adopt a lifestyle shaped around the Zero Waste philosophy. When we are about to buy something, from the supermarket to any other kind of shop, let’s try to ask ourselves:
Because the point is not to stop making purchases once and for all, it’s impossible. But we can surely quit buying stuff we don’t need. A Zero Waste life is possible. Buying consciously is possible. Being mindful of the environmental and social impact of the object we have is possible.
We know that in the era of consumerism — of fast times, of work that doesn’t leave space for life, of whims, gadgets and more-the-merrier attitudes — what we are about to say seems absurd, but: the less we consume and the less we own, the happier we will be. Not only because, by consuming and owning less, we free ourselves from that feeling of perennial dissatisfaction that we all know so well and that consumerism was thought to create, but also because, concretely speaking, we find out that we can live well anyways spending less. And, looking at the future, needing less money means, consequently, working less. To do without fulfilling every single desire that crosses our minds, to learn to distinguish momentary whims from true needs, to reduce our attachment to material objects are all actions that can help us feel in charge of ourselves and satisfied with our existence.
By saying all these things, we are referring to a socio-economic system that doesn’t exist yet, whose beginning depends directly on us, from our will and desire to create it. In exactly the same way we put our time, effort, and money into this current socio-economic system, we can choose to act so that new systems may be established, especially starting with our smallest daily actions.
If we don’t start to live by this set of ideas, there won’t be any suggestions or Zero Waste alternatives that can work, because the first great way to not produce waste is to not produce waste!
Another little necessary observation, precisely because we’re aware that the consumerist lifestyle doesn’t leave any space for life: we realize that teaming up is one of the best and most effective ways to cut down on consumption, waste and costs.
Teaming up can mean many things: buying an object together with somebody else; choosing someone – on a rotating basis – to be in charge of doing package-free shopping for an entire group of people; creating or joining an Ethical Purchasing Group to buy local products for all; helping each other to produce something homemade, from food to toothpaste. In a nutshell, it means helping each other, exchanging objects, ideas and time, in order to live a more Zero Waste kind of lifestyle.
Wastes and trash are not just the ones that end up in the bin. First of all, even if it gets presented to us as durable, every object we buy is a potential piece of garbage, and that is what it will soon become: what we wear, the furniture and decorations of our homes, the toys of our kids; any product that comes to our mind possibly falls into this category, especially if not bought with awareness and for a truly durable use.
Then there is the “invisible” waste: the emissions of the vehicles we drive, the resources used to create and carry the products that we consume in our lives, the sub-products of anything ever produced on Planet Earth, all the unsold products, the servers of the websites, apps and streaming platforms we use every single moment of the day, even the water that flows while we brush our teeth. Long story short: “things” that might not end up in the bin, but that pollute anyways and contribute to our negative and disruptive environmental impact.
This is why to adopt a Zero Waste kind of lifestyle means to change the way we think and how we look at the world, to question our actions and to not underestimate the importance of any gesture, as insignificant as it may seem just because it may look like a “drop in the ocean.” But what better metaphor, considering that the “ocean is made of drops” and our Planet, exactly like us, is made mainly of water.
When we talk about how to live without producing waste, as we’ve said, nobody’s perfect…but we all forget about it.
The consequence of this forgetfulness is that we end up being overwhelmed by our goal: “starting tomorrow I’ll start living Zero Waste. I won’t produce any waste, not even a grain! But how? Impossible!” Discouragement sets in, possesses everything and giving in is a matter of seconds. That’s all folks!
However, this approach is as much “consumerist” as the one we’ve been trying to let go of: it’s a classic case of everything at once and all or nothing. The habit to seek fast and lightspeed fruition, the immediate solution, comfy and ready-to-use, causes us to want to give up on the endeavor we view as impossible. But no. Don’t worry, be happy!
Perfection doesn’t exist, especially in a world where living Zero Impact is virtually impossible. Nobody is expecting that you’ll transform into the Zero Waste World Champion and, even if tomorrow you become one, nobody expects you to become one overnight. To take the first steps, we all start from where we can. A gesture, two, three if we really want to get in the game big time.
Exactly because living Zero Waste means to change our lifestyle, nobody changes in a day, especially when we talk about daily habits.
Find what’s easier for you, whether it’s a reusable water bottle, making homemade products, or any other action that would allow you to eliminate once and for all at least one type of garbage from your life – and dedicate yourself to that.
As always, one thing leads to another. Your rhythms will relax, and you’ll spontaneously find pleasure in reducing your purchases, consumption, and needs. You’ll rediscover the pleasure to simplify – by simply pronouncing this word that is so magical, we can already hear your sighs of relief.
Happy traveling then, happy first steps, or happy continuation for those who already started. And don’t forget, we’ll be here, ready to help you and to walk a bit of the road together with you every time you need us to. We’re not perfect either, after all!
While reading this guide, you might find repetition throughout the various topics.
That’s because this guide is designed to be read either fully (section by section), or by jumping from one item to the other. So, it’s possible to begin with the section you’re most interested in and that you have the best chance at starting from.
Start exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
This zero waste handmade deodorant is very easy to make and we’re to show you how to do it. To make 200ml of deodorant you need 3 ingredients: 300 ml of tap water 1 spoon of baking soda 20 drops of Tea Tree Oil If we want, other essential oils we like for scenting Of...
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