Which is a bummer because Zero Waste living isn’t black and white or should be so restrictive it is a struggle.
Or at least it shouldn’t’ be.
In reality, shifting your mindset to a lower waste living is much more sustainable because it takes into consideration what you have available locally, what you can’t, or don’t want to give up. Are you seriously going to deny grandma life saving medication because it comes in a plastic bottle?!
Often how zero waste you can go depends upon what is available where you live. Fill your own container bulk bin sections and stores are fairly anemic around here because local code enforcement strongly reminded everyone that shoppers have to use store provided containers. Winter means nothing grows here for 6 months out of the year. Sadly zero waste utopia doesn’t mention that. So what do you do?
You do it by concentrate on reducing and stop focusing on the zero - without guilt.
Guilt is not productive. Trying is.
