Shopping

• Do upcycling as a team-building activity with your class or colleagues. Organize a team-building event in which everyone brings something from home. It could be anything you haven't used for the last year. Try to make something useful out of it. • Here is a YouTube video with lots of examples. • Offer trainings and workshops on waste reduction: If you don’t recycle in your work/school you can offer a workshop and present it yourself. If you already have boxes for different materials, you can organize movies for everyone to watch on sustainability. And don’t be afraid to be self-confident – be an example of Zero Waste principles. Always try to be positive and do it with a smile, and you will see that people accept your choice and might try it themselves. If someone thinks you are weird, it only means you are doing something different!

Aleksa

Let's talk about unbalanced shopping. It is a disease of modern society that we buy things purely for the sake of our own satisfaction. We buy so much, and more than half of it we don’t really need. It’s a pattern of this century that must be broken. This cycle currently consumes humanity, making every day exactly the same as another: we wake up, go to work, come home, watch TV – where we are pounded by a million commercials for things we, apparently, must buy the next day – and all in a continuous loop. In our desire to possess as much stuff as possible, we never think about whether we really need it, or even better, "Can I avoid buying that?" It’s one big, bad habit our society suffers from. Zero Waste way is a solution for this situation, where we adapt our lifestyles to a system where we avoid buying waste.