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Every minute, about one truckload of plastic waste ends up in the ocean worldwide. Are we in Switzerland partly responsible for this problem?
Leara and me would like to find out what packaging alltetnative we have to plastic and how we could produce them.
Then we want to try and produce some here at our school with the help of some other classes. After that we would like to give halfe of the produced packaging products to a village shop nearby and send the other halfe to a shop in Kerala. Then we would like to see how many people would use this products, and if it prevent the waste of plastic
The average American person produces about 2 Kg trash per day. Terrible for the environment, convenient for your all-day life.
Though, is there a any way to reduce the trash of a person to 0 waste? Probably it is, but to achieve zero waste you are going to give up a lot of comfort.
First of all you'll have to live "off-the-grid" (=Netzunabhängig). Also to reuse almost everything will be a must do. Furthermore you will live from rainwater, only drive with the bike or walk, plant vegetables yourself, and use solar panels. There is even more stuff!
To sum up, theoretically it is possible, but in reality it will fail for most of us, since we are depending on our current lifestyle.
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