Going beyond zero waste and zero plastic

Today, more and more concerns about preserving our environment are rising. It is becoming critical to protecting our planet to ensure we leave it clean and healthy for future generations. We are observing lots of green alternatives, lifestyles, philosophies popping in the news and media.
From individuals to businesses, everyone has to feel concerned to make the right efforts to reduce waste and plastic.

Zero waste: What is it?
Zero waste is a philosophy that encourages every resource to be reused when designing or creating a product. From materials to processes, the purpose is to commit to avoiding any trash to end up in landfills or incinerators but to be reused at any time of the product’s lifecycle.
Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. (definition from the Zero Waste International Alliance – ZWIA)
More and more businesses are adopting this philosophy as part of their production processes to eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a huge threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.

From Zero waste to Zero plastic
In the 2000s, people start realizing the impact of waste on the environment and the urge to change our production and consumption behaviors in order to keep our planet clean. For 20 years, businesses, governments, and individuals are taking part in reducing their waste and plastic footprints. “There is no planet B” said Ban Ki-Moon when he was UN Secretary-General in 2014, and 4 years later it is still a powerful message that worths being released to ensure everyone act to change to save the planet.

In several countries today, for more than a decade, plastic bags are banished from supermarkets to fight against plastic ending up in landfills. But one country – Netherlands – is going beyond this interdiction by opening the world-first plastic free aisles opened in a supermarket.

Really a great initiative in line with offering green alternatives and choices to customers. A more environmentally friendly approach developed by A plastic planet. Read the article here.