#formamaearth

when i get back up north again -after Christmas with family-, i will start to save every thing i will not be able to donate/recycle/rot.

every buy is a choice. and i need to make the better ones!

go, listen;

even there are people in the lead you cannot understand,

Johnson is clear who she believes has the power when it comes to creating demand for zero waste: the consumer.

On the subject of using a plastic bag, she says that saying ‘no thank you’ could have a greater impact than you might think.

“Because when you accept it, you are creating a demand to make more,” says Johnson. “Every time you accept a free plastic bag it is a way for you to say ‘I love plastic bags and I dream of a world filled with them for my children’s future’. So more oil will be drawn from the ground to create a replacement.”

Johnson fears that consumers are waiting for politicians and manufacturers to change things, instead of realising they could do something themselves.

“They are just sitting back, saying ‘the waste issue is too big of an issue and I’m just one small consumer, what I do will not make a difference’. And I’m here to say the contrary,” states Johnson.

When I got started, people were saying what you do doesn’t really matter, what really matters is what the politicians do and it’s what the manufacturers do and we’ve been able to prove the opposite.

She suggests that if readers want to start to move towards a zero waste lifestyle, they start with saying no, and then move on to their home. Tackle one room at a time, and one area of that room at a time.

Really question everything in that room. Go through one drawer at a time, one room at a time, one closet at a time, and question the true need and use for anything that is contained in that drawer, closet or room.