BY FERNANDA SOLIS
Zero Waste Living Because everything starts at home
Reducing plastic its a good way to start saving the earth!! Throughout the years plastic has been used as a material useful for almost everything. It is a really accesible material and very adjustable to each thing. For example whenever I go grocery shopping I try to avoid using plastic bag, but for everything I buy the packaging is full of plastic.
What is zero waste? Introduction
It is a philosophy that encourages the redesign of making products to make them easily reusable. It has as an objective of reducing the consumption of materials like plastic that affect marine life forms and also to reduce the ocean pollution that contributes with climate change. That's why I have created this recipe book, in order for people that want to join this lifestyle or at least that they want to reduce their plastic consumption little by little. This recipe book contains various ways to make your own personal and cleaning products that are used mostly on a daily basis. Now, I know many people do not have the time to do this so I have added some places here in Puebla that sell most of them per liter, meaning you will just have to reuse the same container and just fill it in everytime it finishes.
How Plastic Waste Impacts Oceans
8 TONS OF PLASTIC WASTE ARE DUMPED IN THE SEA, ALL THESE CRITICALLY AFFECT MARINE LIFE FORMS.
THE SUNLIGHT AND HEAT CAUSE THE PLASTIC TO RELEASE POWERFUL GREENHOUSE GASES, LEADING TO AN ALARMING FEEDBACK LOOP. AS OUR CLIMATE CHANGES, THE PLANET GETS HOTTER, THE PLASTIC BREAKS DOWN INTO MORE METHANE AND ETHYLENE, INCREASING THE RATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AND SO PERPETUATING THE CYCLE.
Toothpaste
Most toothpaste tubes are made from sheets of plastic laminate – usually a combination of different plastics – often sandwiched around a thin layer of aluminum that protects the toothpaste’s flavor and fluoride. The mix of materials is pressed together into a single film, making it impossible to recycle through conventional methods.
1. TOOTHPASTE WITH BAKING SODA AND WATER Take one teaspoon baking soda Add one drop of an essential oil(s) Add a few drops of water
3. TOOTHPASTE WITH BAKING SODA AND COCONUT OIL Add two tablespoon baking soda
2. TOOTHPASTE WITH BAKING SODA, SALT AND WATER
Add two tablespoon of coconut oil Add ten drops of essential oil
Take one teaspoon baking soda Add a tablespoon of natural salt Add three drops of an essential oil Add a few drops of water
Mix all the ingredients well to get a smooth texture.
more than 552 million shampoo bottles could be ending up in landfills every year the number of shampoo bottles thrown out in the United States every year could fill 1,164 football fieldsonly 1 in 5 people consistently recycle items from the bathroom Now think about these statistics on a global scale, and add to that all of the travel size shampoo bottles in hotels around the world that are replaced with each new guest!
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
¼ cup coconut milk (homemade or
1.- Combine all the ingredients in an old
canned)
shampoo bottle or jar. Pump soap dispensers and
¼ cup liquid castile soap
even foaming dispensers work well for this. If
20 drops essential oils (such as
you use a foaming dispenser, add ¼ cup of
peppermint, lavender, rosemary, or
distilled water.
orange) ½ tsp olive oil (or almond oil, optional)
2.- Shake well to mix.
3.-Keep in the shower for up to a month. Shake before each use and use about a teaspoon every time you shampoo.
SHAMPOO
Conditioner
Yes, shampoo and conditioner bottles are easy to recycle after a quick rinse, but how many people are actually doing that regularly? Given the statistics above stating that under 10% of plastic is recycled historically,
INGREDIENTS one tablespoon of coconut oil one tablespoon honey one tablespoon lemon juice two tablespoons of curd one teaspoon of rose water
INSTRUCTIONS 1.- Mix all of them well and apply them on your shampooed hair. 2.- Leave it for about 10-15 minutes and rinse off with running water.
More than 60 million plastic containers end up in landfills and incinerators every day – a total of about 22 billion last year. INGREDIENTS 3 tbsp liquid Castile soap 2 cups warm water 2 tsp glycerine 2 tbsp. white vinegar 10 drops lavender essential oil
INSTRUCTIONS Mix all ingredients in a jar, cover, and shake well to blend
DISH SOAP
According to some investigation data and the estimate, detergent consumption per person-year in the world is 11.9 kg and the gross volume is approximately 78.5 million tons. INGREDIENTS 2.5kg Natural Borax Substitute
Detergent
2kg Soda Crystals 500g Bicarbonate of Soda 3 bars of soap 35 drops of essential oil
INSTRUCTIONS 1.-Grate the soap into a large bowl and once all grated, run your hands through the soap mix so that it starts to fall apart into really small pieces.
2.-Mix everything else in and really mix well.
3.-If using essential oil for aroma, add at the end and break up lumps that this will cause in the mix, stir and mix thoroughly. Please note that this will give you a very SUBTLE aroma.
4.-This recipe above makes approx. 6.5kg of laundry powder.
Plastics never go away.Instead, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces, which act as magnets for harmful pollutants.
INGREDIENTS ž cup baking soda ž cup white vinegar 10 drops of tea tree oil 10 drops of lavender essential oils
Mix all the ingredients well to get a smooth texture.
TOILET CLEANER
Multi Purpose Cleaner
It has been determined that approximately 100 MILLION marine animals are killedby plastics duri ng the course of each year. 34% of all dead leatherback sea turtles are found to have ingested plastic due to the way that plastic bags resemble jellyfish causing in excess of 1,000 deaths per year.
INGREDIENTS Ÿ cup of white vinegar 1 tbsp baking soda 1 litre of hot water ½ a lemon
Mix all the ingredients well to get a smooth texture.
Chlorinated plastic can release harmful chemicals into the surrounding soil, which can then seep into groundwater or other surrounding water sources, and also the ecosystem. This can cause a range of potentially harmful effects on the species that drink the water
WOOD POLISHING
INGREDIENTS ž cup olive oil Ÿ cup white vinegar 30 drops essential oil, optional
Mix all the ingredients well to get a smooth texture.
Mirror Cleaner
Rotting requires the presence of bacteria, microbes, detrivores, etc. to eat and digest the substance - effectively, reintroducing the substance into the food chain. Plastic does not decompose because very few organisms derive their energy from complex hydrocarbons such as oil INGREDIENTS ¼ cup white vinegar ¼ cup isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol 1 Tbsp cornstarch 2 cups water 8 – 10 drops essential oil of choice, optional
INSTRUCTIONS Combine everything in a spray bottle, and shake well. Shake well before using, too, as the cornstarch might settle at the bottom
Places that sell most of these products per liter. Just Reuse the same container! DOGO
Clean Master Irapuat en Puebla .
KapClean (online store)
There are more than those sites/places were they sell the products without a packaging and also more companies are coming up with products with no packaging, for example shampoo's or conditioners in a bar instead of liquid.
Copy and Paste the next sites to get more recipes: https://keeperofthehome.org/home made-all-natural-cleaning-recipes/ https://thegreenparent.co.uk/articles /read/make-your-own-cleaningproducts http://www.greeneducationfoundati on.org/nationalgreenweeksub/wast e-reduction-tips/tips-to-use-lessplastic.html
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