Interview by Eloise Hanson at “Through Ella’s Eyes” How long have you been living a zero waste life? I have been endeavouring a plastic free life for around a year and zero waste for 6 months. I say endeavouring because although I may no longer buy plastic or contribute to landfill with new purchases I do still have a backlog of things I have collected in the past, that if cannot be reused, do go to recycling or landfill. Also by saying "endeavour", it takes the immense press

Let’s start this off bluntly. The world is fucked and we all know it. So, how do we un-fuck the world? No, not by blaming it for all our problems. We begin by un-fucking ourselves! In life, there are these pesky little things we call EMOTIONS. Typically, only women have them and across the globe, we are taught to deny them, repress and push them down far enough so that they never bother us again. What’s happened though, is that after ages of denial and repression, we’ve squee

A philosophy that endeavours to redesign the traditional linear economy and shape it into a circular one, leading a zero waste life aims to send no rubbish to landfills. The idea is to adapt current lifestyles and practices in order to model sustainable natural cycles, ultimately writing waste out of existence. According to a 2018 report by Circle Economy, an estimated 90% of global raw materials do not make it back into the economy. While the incentive to reduce, reuse, and