How to treat the post-90 s couples who are addicted to picking up garbage and living a "zero waste" life?

These days, the circle of friends has been blown up by a couple of North drifters. They don't order takeout for three years, and they don't buy clothes for seven years. Their daily life is almost "zero waste". Once, only two small cans of domestic garbage were produced in three months, which was amazing. And according to what they say, you can actually save more!

Think about it carefully, a "zero waste" life is really unimaginable in modern times. Nowadays, even if young people don't order takeout for a week and don't buy clothes for a year, it's hard to do it. Miss Yu Yuan and her wife from Beipiao were very unaccustomed when they first tried this kind of life. She felt that she didn't like second-hand things, and then said, "Slowly, I found it was just a small psychological obstacle. "Zero waste" does not mean a life style without any garbage, but means avoiding unnecessary garbage. "

However, this Beijing couple has turned their life into the most advanced lifestyle.

The girl and her British boyfriend live in a residential area on the Third Ring Road in Beijing. They did an experiment last August to see how much garbage two people could produce in three months. The answer is two glass jars. In fact, the girl herself is a crazy consumer, influenced by a video of 20 16, and changed her lifestyle. In the video, an American family of four is told that garbage can only be put into one jar. At that time, she was particularly shocked and deeply inspired.

After that, she began to try to practice this lifestyle in depth. Talking about their furniture, she said that many of them are second-hand, and even a pair of oxhide shoes was bought at her boyfriend's hometown for four yuan and worn for a long time.

Domestic garbage is a by-product of human life. With the rapid development of social economy and the high concentration of urban population, it seems inevitable that the output of domestic garbage will increase gradually. This couple has also given us a lot of inspiration now. I believe some people have started to start a new chapter according to their lifestyle.

I feel incredible and deeply admired, but I can't help but reflect on what terrible pollution urban solid waste has caused today. Usually, do you have a good garbage sorting?

The Impact of Domestic Waste on the Environment

1. Land occupation

The vicious accumulation of municipal solid waste has become a worldwide environmental disaster. According to the survey, at least 200 of the 668 cities in China are surrounded by garbage. For example, there are five or six hundred unorganized garbage dumps around Shenyang, covering an area of more than 3 million square meters. It can be said that Shenyang has been surrounded by garbage. This phenomenon of wanton occupation of land by garbage has seriously affected industrial and agricultural production and life. If we continue to expand, the land area will become less and less, and all will become garbage, which is extremely terrible.

Atmospheric pollution

Fine solid waste will fly with the wind, which will aggravate air pollution. In the field where a lot of garbage is piled up in the open air, it stinks, rats are infested, and mosquitoes and flies breed. A large number of harmful gases are released into the atmosphere, causing air pollution. According to experts' testing, a large number of gases emitted by garbage contain toxic organic substances. If accumulated all the year round, the toxicity in the atmosphere will gradually increase enough to harm human beings.

Contaminated soil

Solid wastes such as municipal solid waste are piled up in the open air for a long time, and their harmful components migrate to the surrounding and deep soil through soil pores under the leaching and infiltration of surface runoff and rainwater, which destroys the structure and physical and chemical properties of the soil, greatly reduces the water retention capacity of the soil, and then pollutes plants growing in the soil, and sometimes accumulates in plants, which is harmful to human health when stored and eaten.

Spread disease

If the municipal solid waste cannot be removed from the urban area in time or simply piled up in the suburbs, it will often cause garbage everywhere, sewage cross-flow, and stink, which will seriously damage the ecological environment of cities and villages and affect the ecological landscape of cities and villages. At the same time, domestic garbage contains a large number of microorganisms, which is the breeding ground of germs, viruses and pests. After living in garbage ponds and landfills, mosquitoes, flies, birds and other organisms will bring pathogens in garbage to other places, which will seriously endanger human health. The spread speed is extremely fast, and it is out of control.

5. Fire

Garbage contains a lot of combustible substances, which will produce methane and other combustible gases in the process of natural stacking, and it is easy to cause fire when it encounters open fire or spontaneous combustion. With the increase of organic matter content in municipal solid waste, the harm of biogas produced by simple covering of garbage in long-term storage is becoming increasingly prominent, and garbage explosion accidents continue to occur, causing huge losses. Once a fire breaks out, the damaged area will expand rapidly and the loss will increase. At the same time, smog will continue to devour fresh air and increase air pollution.

Garbage pollution has long been a macro problem of society. After all, this is the land where we live and the earth is our common home. If we let the pollution continue to increase on our own, and we don't improve or solve it, we will eventually hurt ourselves. Therefore, it is our "common task" to protect the earth from childhood, simply classify garbage and waste resources as little as possible.