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Start Lessen Your Waste Impact : the Guide, part.1 (Food, Home, and Personal Care)

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Start Lessen Your Waste Impact : the Guide, part.1 (Food, Home, and Personal Care)

Like our promise in the previous post, we will share you some ideas on how to live the zero-waste life for real! Relax, no need to hold your breath. It’s not a rocket science. And so much as we know that in this 7,5-billion-people-inhabited earth our individual action might be so microscopic to the whole thing, keep in mind that there might be millions of people who have this exact hesitation as you are in the first place. Then, imagine the impact if those number of people eventually commit to this less-waste lifestyle. Our action would be like one beautiful...

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Zero-Waste Cities Around the World

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Zero-Waste Cities Around the World

Living a zero-waste life may seems like a pipe dream for most of us. How could I get my personal care goods? Most of them are sold in plastics! What if I suddenly want to bring home some street food, and I don’t carry any food container at the moment? How should I replace/refill my stationery needs, like correction pen and highlighter--which obviously create waste once it runs out? Those personal questions alone are already uneasy to solve for one individual soul, not to mention for the entire community--how to fulfill the communal needs that require plastics in the name of...

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Maggot : A Research To Be Inspiration

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Maggot : A Research To Be Inspiration

“Do you want to wear a mask?" “Mmm, nope, thanks." A woman in teacher uniform and her three students pushed me down the aisle. Passed through the cafeteria and the laboratory until the end. On my right side, there’s a dim room as large as a dorm room in 3 x 5 meters. His appearance resembles a warehouse. Not so bright, a little stuffy and some stuff that I don’t know what is it for. “Here the research is usually done,” Rini started. Ignatia Rini Purwati (44) is a biology teacher in SMA Marsudirini Muntilan. She has small figure and...

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Converts Waste Back Into Raw

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Converts Waste Back Into Raw

Baran Gunung. An adobe-walled building without doors stood firm there, but seedy. The giant metal machine kept puffing the white vapour. Non stop. At one side of the machine, a guy crammed tons of garbage into the mouth of the machine. It was fast. Sorrr! At the other side, the solid granules as small as rice were spewed out. The plastic pellets. “This is the pellet maker,” said Slamet Raharjo (32), not the owner. He is a chief of the operators and technicians. With Otong, his partner, they manage the other 17 workers. Raharjo then explained that to make pellets,...

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Ecotourism Village : Sukunan

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Ecotourism Village : Sukunan

“It all begins here,” said Endah, pointing her chest. ... It was the end of 2002. Endah Suwarni Setyowati (46) and her husband, took a new step which changed their life. A small step which is patiently done, has now been fruitful. Endah is a housewife  who ever decided to quit from her job, and Iswanto, her husband, is a lecturer who has environmental concern. They are not native inhabitants in Sukunan, a village they lived with their two children now. Sukunan is cool and peaceful. There is still some big trees, and the road is not so wide. It’s...

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