While I've not managed to adopt this myself, and I doubt I ever will due to quite how difficult it is to achieve, I have become more and more interested in the concept of Zero-Waste living.

it can be as simple as ensuring that you sort your trash––making sure that things are recycled and composted. The next steps can be difficult, as people are now trying to ensure they always have reusable mugs, forks etc. for when they go to get takeaway food or go to a cafe.

I found a list of *[100 ways to reduce your plastic usage](https://myplasticfreelife.com/plasticfreeguide/)*, as well as a *[reddit group](https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroWaste/)* committed to the Zero-Waste Movement

That is a very interesting idea and would greatly affect our world for the better. I read over the "100 ways to reduce your plastic usage" and the first two are very easy to accomplish. Those two ideas, to stop using plastic water bottles and to reuse shopping bags, would definitely make the Earth a cleaner place. Another one that I know wouldn't be too big of a change in my life but could really help is number 44. This one is to carry your lunch in a reusable stainless containers or cloth bag. Thanks for sharing!!

Pablo and Jessica - This idea of zero-waste living, whether in whole or in part, would undoubtedly be a reasonable step forward for our society.  It certainly seems like a viable solution that most people would be able to participate in, and perhaps there could be certain incentives that we can create for zero-waste participants.  For example, Pablo mentioned bringing reusable utensils and/or dishes to restaurants and cafes.  Maybe this system could parallel current efforts in California grocery stores to encourage bringing reusable bags.  At these grocery stores, customers must pay extra for bags if they did not bring their own reusable ones.  Though it is marginal, this encourages many to avoid purchasing harmful plastic bags.  As for the reusable utensils example, perhaps restaurants could offer an incentive such as charging extra for utensils.  It seems insignificant, but incentives and punishments for these sorts of things can gradually increase over time to  the point where a majority of people will adopt the reusable materials.  I think that was a very interesting point about zero-waste, Pablo!  I too will try to join the movement to my best ability.

I think this is a great idea! Many things on that list are not difficult to do, and it would make a big difference if a lot of people participated. However, I think there are many people who would find some of these things inconvenient and be unwilling to try zero waste living. For example, there are many people who wouldn't want to give up bottled water. It seems difficult to live a completely plastic-free life, but it would make a big difference if everyone tried at least a few of these ideas. Many people are probably unfamiliar with the idea of zero-waste living. I think spreading this idea is an important step in reducing waste. Ryan, I think the incentives are a great idea! There is a cosmetics company called Lush that encourages customers to bring back empty containers to be recycled. In return, they get a free product. Incentives like this are definitely are fun way to get customers to stop wasting plastic. I found an interesting website about [what you can do to reduce waste](https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-wa … you-can-do). This website had a point ab out saving materials for things like arts and crafts projects. I think that is a great idea rather than throwing away any plastic packaging or materials that you have.

Agreeing with what you all said above. I think this idea of go zero waste is super great and important for me to know. Because just like people saying above, one person starts to take their reusable shopping bag to the market can't have much influence, but if all of the people began to take their bags to go shopping, the outcome is going to be so much different. Continue with the ideas mentioned; I tried to look up some ways that can help to live a life with zero waste. There are many creative websites and ways; one example is a site named as Going Zero Waste. There are numerous ways of how to make the old staff into things that can be used again. Like people came up with ways we can do in our daily life like use the used milk/juice bottles as containers to hold other things -- nuts, baking soda, and salts. The ideas in these websites helped me to think deeply about what small things I can do in my life to make my life become better in doing going zero waste.