Name: 【TEDx】擁有不浪費的人生 (Why I live a zero waste life | Lauren Singer | TEDxTeen)
Uploaded: 2015-10-22T12:29:58.000Z
Duration: 13 min 31 s

This is all of the trash that I've produced in the past 3 years.

When I say that, people think that I'm crazy, or that I'm lying,

通常我這麼說的時候其他人覺得我瘋了，或我騙人

未來簡單式

Now, zero waste, that's a pretty big idea. Right?

零垃圾，聽起來是個很籠統的想法，對吧？

To me living zero waste means that I don't make any trash.

對我來說，零垃圾生活就是不製造任何垃圾

So no sending anything to landfill, no sending anything in a garbage can,

不送任何東西到掩埋場、不丟任何東西到垃圾桶

and no spitting gum on the ground, and walking away.

This is a big concept, and this all started

這是很宏觀的概念，而這一切開始於

when I was an environmental study student at NYU.

我在紐約大學主修環境研究的時候

My senior year, I was taking a course called:

大四那年我修了一門課，叫做：

"The Environmental Studies Capstone course",

which is the culminating course that all environmental study students need to take

這是所有主修環境研究的學生都必須修的課

in order to go out into the world, and make it a more sustainable place.

目的是要我們在世界各地散播理念以及致力讓世界變得更永續發展

and every class she would have this big plastic bag,

a plastic fork and knife, a plastic water bottle,

and then class after class, would just throw it in the trash.

然後每次都直接全部丟進垃圾桶

This was really frustrating, because here we were

這讓我覺得很失落，因為我們身為

these environmental study students trying to make the world a better place,

環境研究的學生，我們應該要努力讓世界變得更好

and there she was, throwing all this stuff into the garbage.

但是她卻這樣不斷把這些東西丟進垃圾桶

feeling still particularly upset about watching her throw everything away,

看著她再次把全部塑膠製品丟到垃圾桶，我感到特別難過

and noticed something that I had never seen before.

Every single thing in my fridge was in one way or another packaged in plastic,

我冰箱裡的每一樣東西都用各種塑膠包裝著

You know I was getting so mad at this girl for making so much plastic trash,

我剛剛還因為那個製造很多塑膠垃圾的女生而生氣

但實際上我跟她做的事是一樣的。

I was that girl, and so I made a decision in that moment.

我就是那個女生，所以我當下做了一個決定

when you wake up in the morning, go into the bathroom, and you brush your teeth.

What is your toothpaste probably packaged in?

Your face wash, your moisturizer, your contact solution.

So many things that are in our everyday lives come packaged in plastic,

我們的日常生活中有這麼多東西用塑膠包裝

and so I realized that if I was going to move away from plastic,

所以我發現如果我想要遠離塑膠

the only way that I was going to be able to do that

was to learn how to make my products myself.

but I certainly didn't know how to make deodorant.

I didn't have the recipe just hanging out in my back pocket,

and so I realized that I had to do some research,

所以我發現我必須先做一些研究

and while I was doing research online, I came across a blog called

我在網路找資料的時候看到一個部落格叫做

the "Zero Waste Home" started by a woman named Bea Johnson

「零垃圾家庭」，是由一名叫貝雅強森的女性建立的

who is a wife, and mother of 2 kids, out in Mill Valley, California,

她住在加州密爾維利，不僅是妻子，也是兩個孩子的媽

and the 4 of them live a completely zero waste life.

他們一家四口過著完全零垃圾的生活

When I learned about Bea, and her family, my mind was completely blown.

我進一步了解貝雅和她的家庭之後，我如夢初醒

I thought that I was doing the best thing for the planet

But the idea that I didn't have to produce any trash,

但是我不用製造任何垃圾的這個想法

Because I was this Environmental Studies student,

I cared about the environment, studied sustainability,

talked about sustainability, protested for sustainability.

與人討論過永續發展，也為此抗議過

But I realized, that I wasn't actually implementing any of those values

但我到那時候才發現，我其實沒有在我日常生活中

into my day-to-day life, and so I made the decision to go zero waste.

真正實現其中的任何一項理念，所以我決定開始零垃圾生活

Let me break it down for you, and tell you some of the things

我會一部分一部分說明，告訴你們一些

that I did in order to make this transition a little easier.

我已經做過的事情好讓想開始零垃圾生活的人生活轉變時更容易些

The first thing that I did was I stopped buying packaged food.

我做的第一件事就是不再買包裝好的食物

So instead of going to the store, and buying things packaged

in paper, and glass, and plastic, I started bringing my own jars,

不論包裝是紙、玻璃還是塑膠，我開始帶自己的罐子

and bags to the store to fill with bulk, or package-free items.

I also started buying my fruit, and vegetables from the farmer's market.

我同時也開始自己到農產品市場買水果還有蔬菜

was I started making all of my own products.

我開始自己製作所有的生活用品

Before I started living this lifestyle, my boyfriend at the time,

在我開始這個生活方式之前，我當時的男朋友

used to brush his teeth using baking soda,

and I thought he was probably the grossest person in the entire world. Right?

我當時覺得他應該是世界上最噁心的人，對吧？

There's no way that you can get your teeth clean

using something like baking soda, it's gross.

Well fast-forward, and it turns out that the first product that I made

然而後來，我做的第一個東西就是

So overtime I started making all of my own products.

我慢慢開始製作我需要的全部日用品

When I would run out of something, instead of going to the store,

我用完其中一項東西的時候，我不會去商店

and buying a new one, I would learn how to make it myself.

So when I would run out of lotion, I learned how to make it myself.

乳液用完的時候，我學會自製乳液

Run out of deodorant, learn how to make it myself.

除臭劑用完的時候，我學會自製除臭劑

Over time, all of the things I had previously purchased,

日復一日，我以前購買的所有東西

The third thing that I started doing, was shopping second-hand.

and putting new waste into the waste cycle,