B2 – Upper Intermediate
Think about how much waste you’ve produced in two years. How much do you think it is?
Lauren Singer has striven to live a zero waste life after she realized how much she is contributing to the environment’s degradation. With her new lifestyle, she was able to fit all her trash the past two years in a mason jar. Is it possible?
Let her give you a sneak peak into this lifestyle through this video.
Discussion Questions:
1. What are some benefits of a garbage-free lifestyle?
2. What are the challenges we might encounter in trying to live waste-free?
3. What do you think about her lifestyle?
4. How do you contribute to reducing waste and protecting the environment?
One reply on “Zero-Waste Lifestyle”
1. What are some benefits of a garbage-free lifestyle?
It is important to mantain the nature clean and not to destroy it.
2. What are the challenges we might encounter in trying to live waste-free?
We should buy food that is not in plastic bags, cans etc.
Use always recycled papers.
We shouldn’t buy any product in plastics
What would it happen with broken TVs, computers, washing machines, fridges etc.
3. What do you think about her lifestyle?
I think it is ok, but it is so radical and complicated to do what she does. Nowadays, world it is not prepared to live like she doues. There aren’t supermarket or shops that sell food by weight. All the food are inside plastic bags, cans etc.
4. How do you contribute to reducing waste and protecting the environment?
I really I would like to contribute more than I do to protect the environment. However, I don’t separate different type of trash, because in the street all the garbage goes to the same container. In other places it is possible to separate and throw the different type of trash to differen containers, but it is not in the place I live.