Nutrition

Nutrition has the second-largest impact on the CO2 budget. This makes it even more important to observe a healthy and sustainable diet. This starts with the purchase of food : A shopping list prevents you from buying more food unnecessarily. Transport food in reusable bags and choose unpack food to avoid more plastic waste. When buying food, try to find some that guarantee an environmentally friendly production framework. A vegan diet with a lots of vegetables, fruits and nuts serves a sustainable and healthy nutrition. The consumption of meat should be at least halved, because meat production causes a lot of emissions. If you have bought too much food that you can not use up in time, try not to throw it away but offer your food on food sharing platforms on the internet. And last but not least, you can compost your biodegradable food to avoid creating more waste.

Waste

Talking about environmental protection and a more sustainable lifestyle, waste is the topic you will find everywhere and that is somehow linked to almost every other topic as well. Mostly all plastic rubbish ends up in the ocean at some point, pollutes and intoxicates our environment and ends up in the food chain. So, first thing we have to clarify, it's nearly impossible to not produce any waste. That's why it's very important that we recycle everything we can, so the raw materials stay in the cycle and don't get wasted, and also try to minimise the single use plastic.

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There are so many alternatives, like a reusable drinking bottle you can always take with you, also easy and effective : drink tap water. At the supermarket, watch out for reusable packaging. Avoid food delivery services and go to the store instead of shopping online. If there isn't a reusable alternative, start being creative. Lots of plastic packaging can actually be reused or upcycled. So next time, ask yourself if you can use the empty hard plastic yogurt cup for something else.

If you want to do more than reducing waste and do something against the trash, you can start collecting the trash laying around on your daily walks, that's so simple to do. Talking about a sustainable lifestyle, we have to start consuming more consciously and always asking ourselves if we really need that, before just blindly buying it. Try to use and reduce, start repairing stuff and stop mindlessly throwing things away. We hope you learned something new, that you can integrate in your daily life now for a more sustainable lifestyle.