You might be wondering how you can start living your life with the Earth in mind. It’s most likely overwhelming. Refusing plastics, eating more sustainably, solar power, carbon footprints, emissions, global warming... where do you start? How do you get to a place where you are creating a lower impact on our planet? 1. It’s going to take time, and you won’t be perfect.work If living low-impact was easy and quick, we’d probably all have made the switch by now. But it’s not. It will take time for you to switch out your habits and thoughts. If you chose to start replacing every single use plastic in your bathroom right now, you will be wasting the product that those plastics had in them. Wait for things to run out before you replace. Mistakes will happen, and you won't be perfect. You might forget to ask the waiter for no straw, and your drink comes out with a straw in it. No one is perfect, and mistakes are completely understandable. As long as you keep with it, understand that you’re not going to be perfect, and keep a conscious effort, you will do just fine. 2. Start by recognizing how much waste you produceokay Go a couple of days noticing how you live your life. Notice how much single-use plastic you use. How much meat do you eat? Notice how much Styrofoam you use. Do you leave the lights on when you leave a room? Do you put plastic in the nearest bin, or do you hold on to it until you can find a recycling bin? Start by noticing your habits, so that you know which ones to fix, and which ones to keep improving upon. You might be surprised at how much you are doing already, or you could be surprised at how far you have to go.
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