
Throwback Thursday: Easy At-Home Composting
Spring is around the corner and it’s time to revisit composting at home.
Spring is around the corner and it’s time to revisit composting at home.
Don’t be so quick to throw away those kuaidi boxes. Turn them into something beautiful.
“Plastic creeps into our lives without us even noticing, so really try and think about each day and what obstacles you will face.”
I quickly realize that in order to succeed at this challenge, I need to aim for “plastic light” and not “plastic-free,” at first.
Is cutting out plastic bags and straws really enough? The Jane Goodall Institute, in cooperation with Holland Park Consultants, is trying something different – encouraging people to try a taste of the plastic-free lifestyle for themselves.
Community is a flexible concept. For example, I belong to a community of people from different cultures, but who all care for the environment, and who refer to ourselves as environmentalists. Being an environmentalist is not what you say but what you do: it’s a kind of attitude that keeps us living for a certain lifestyle standard that will protect the environment. But just like the others in my community, I didn’t start off behaving, or even thinking, like one.
To get some clarity on the new Beijing system, we talked to Markus Dicke, the founder of German Biowaste, the first company in China to design and build biological mechanical waste treatment plants on a commercial scale.
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