![]() ![]() Meh! It’s free – the extra bag that the shop guy will give me for each purchase, the 15 liters of water that run off while I brush my teeth with the tap left on, the soft white slippers, and the daily change of linen in the hotel room. In addition to inertia, I continue to battle a lot of the reasons-not-to that my parents and in-laws, my husband, my friends, my maid put forth, every time I try to bring about the next change in my daily life. Let’s face it, transitioning to a zero-waste lifestyle is an uphill task, to put it mildly, a plastic-free or carbon-neutral one is very nearly impossible for us commoners. To be awenest, I am a long way off from what I can probably achieve without making life too inconvenient. Some habits were just a result of my middle-class upbringing, some more consciously practiced since a Cape Town or a Chennai ran dry sitting right next to an ocean, some brought into effect by the stomach-churning image of a whale that had starved to death – ironically with a belly full of plastic.Īnd there’s no dearth of Did you know?! that the internet can throw at you every day to keep you going – like how each of us ingests about 5gm of microplastics every week, the equivalent of eating a credit card! It happened in parts, at different stages of my 35 years. Unlike the handful of sustainability enthusiasts whom I personally know, I don’t have (or cannot remember) that one turning point when I decided to make my lifestyle greener.
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