Zero Waste Lifestyle, Dare to try ?

I want to start the article with this quote;

"We get everything we need from nature, so when we infect nature, we infect ourselves"

Like most of the people, I never really care about my daily waste like plastics, styrofoam, tissue paper or everything that I find did not useful anymore I tend to throw it on the dustbin, based on my old mindset, we only teach do not litter, and I thought as long as I put my waste on the place it will help the environment or me already the person that really care about the sustainability of the earth, in fact, that it is a big mistake !!!.

I'm not talking to the people who really don't care about nature that litter their waste everywhere like in the river, road and they always left the trace of waste anywhere that they are going to, because at this critical time I believe that you and I as the young people have more responsibility to address this problem. Their time is over and they have failed to educate us as their child to really care about the mother nature. So you guys are my target and I want to encourage you as the free and young folks to understand the problem that we faced of today. 

I'll tell you why this cross to my mind, one day I watch a youtube video about a zero-waste lifestyle and it blows my mind because this guy, she take the plastic and the waste problem to another level that is I never really think and care about, let us think about that first, let say if  we think that we are as a well-educated people and that it is our responsibility to keep environment clean, and we are doing that by throwing our waste in the trash can, is that right ? how this can really help the environment ???

Let's see how our well-educated behavior affect the world,

As you already know, this is our daily basis waste, its really easy to organize our waste on the bag of plastics its look very nice and very well maintain, I suppose that is what we think every time we throw waste on our the trash can in backyard of house or in public trash can and it will be cleaned by the trash man in the noon and tomorrow that will be empty and clean again and ready to receive our waste, and you know this happens every day and will never stop. 

Where all this waste goes? Here on the picture below, everything's that you put on that plastics bag will be ended up down there in the landfill and its keep increasing day by day as long as we as human still live on this planets. The pile will keep increasing as you know it takes a very long time to decompose plastics. An average person of Indonesian waste production is 0.8 Kg/ day its means in a year almost 300 Kg and it's 7.3 million ton/year in Indonesia itself. Its mean in next 10 years we will have a lot of waste that we never can handle. 

Today we still can experience a beautiful beach like this, while the other beach has unsolved a waste problem like in the next picture, whose to blame? is that the government who failed to maintain the waste? the people? or the tourist ?. The answer of this question is no one to blame for this such a problem, who knows if we do not take any action from now on, maybe next 10, 20 or  30 years every beach on this planet will look like that, and our children will only look at the beautiful beach in the picture that we take today and they will experience that only from a fairy tale. Please remember everything that we are experiencing today like a beautiful beach, a fresh air in the forest, a fresh water, trees are the results of our ancestor keep that for us and pass through the generation, so today we can experience it. What will happen if we do not really care and always be a consumer?? you answer that question by yourself folks.

The sheer amount of plastic that has been generated in the past 60 years is mind-boggling. New research shows that we’ve produced plastic as heavy as 1 billion elephants since the 1950s. Even more staggering is the amount that has rapidly become waste. Just 9% of this plastic has been recycled. That means the majority of plastic waste has simply been dumped in landfills or burned.

We are not yet talking about how our waste affect the animals, did you know almost all of our waste go through the ocean? it is still possible for our waste escaping to the environment, even when it is on landfills, plastics are at risk of blowing out by wind goes to the river and ended up in the ocean. Do you think that to garbage on the seashore only from the people on that island? most of the waste is from the ocean that carried away by the wave to the island. The ocean is polluted by our plastics waste and that is harming the sealife ecosystem, look at the picture below;

How dare we are as a human do such a thing to another earth habitat, we take advantage of nature more than what we need, with no intended to protect and keep it sustainable to others and guess what, we are doing that with consciously, we as a public give that permission to big corporation to extract everything excessively from the mother nature so that we can buy from them to fulfill our daily need and throw the waste that earth has no ability to decompose it back. 

We as a human has an advanced sense to think either that is good or that is not good at all, how about the animal, they don't understand about this material (plastics), they have no ability select the food. In some case, turtles think the plastics are the jellyfish and eat that because its shape gimmicks the jellyfish, can you imagine how dangerous this to our ecosystem? and this happens not just for turtles, it happens to all animals like birds, fish and many more affected by our irresponsible behavior in next coming years.

Do we have a solution to this matter?

Sure we have, but since the use of the plastic has been around for entire our life and its a part of our daily activity, so I would suggest at the earliest stage you have to be more aware and keep in mind whenever you're using a plastic bag, straw, plastic glass, and everything contain plastics it will affect the environment and cannot be decomposed for such a long time.

When you're more aware of the plastic, you'll notice a change in your lifestyle and start to resist the use of plastics when it is really not necessary. Your brain will start to figure out how the plastic will be the real problem for our environment and our future will be full of plastic waste if people like us didnot take action from now on.

A small example; Its okay to said no when the cashier gives you the plastic bag to wrap your things and just put in in your bag. Its very basic things right ?.

We can start with this starting point;

Looking to Reduce Your Waste? Start with the Big Four! 

I myself challenge you all, hope we are not late and can help the environment.