In today’s video I wanted to have a little chat with you about conscious consumerism, ethics and sustainability, and how to balance veganism and zero waste. Make yourself a nice cup of your favourite tea and let’s have a bit of a discussion!
Vegan vs. Zero Waste | Tea Time
That’s a very important topic, and I feel like bringing some of my experience here. First, Vegan life style, for me, is not sustainable. The collaboration between species is at the heart of nature. Think about ants using aphid. It’s balance, and that’s the just the thing we are missing know, a little bit of balance and common sense. Personally, I always prefer using natural materials, because other alternatives are very bad when its produced (pollution), when its used (little tiny bits of plastics and other elements can penetrate your body) and when its became a waste.
Now, as an everyday life style trying to minimize waste, you can prefer market or other kind of shop that don’t use plastic packaging for veggies (that’s a non sense), keep in mind the season when you buy ( I’m a little bit mad when I see youtubers making recipe with tomatoes or strawberries in February….), using simple cosmetic from the kitchen, or in solid form (no packaging or a tiny one). About clothing, recycling is a good start but also the choice of the shop. Primark, HM and other proposed cheap clothes, yes, but the price of this is badly paid jobs, poor qualities of clothes and lot of waste (and most of the time a plastic-made wardrobe). Prefer natural material, buy less but better quality, go to thrift shop ( there a amazing treasure there trust me) or even, if you have time, made your own creations.
I must confess though that I think the economic logic of a blogger or a youtuber, with partnerships and publicities, trendy things and so very short-lived etc… often leads to encourage overconsumption.