Number one on my list is to: use less. It's the first of the 3 Rs. If in doubt, just don't but it. If I do buy something, I usually buy it used–other than food, that is. lol Although many people who try to be environmentally friendly speak openly about buying organic foods, I care more about sourcing my food locally whenever possible. I do try to use products that use fewer chemicals and with less packaging, but buying locally reduces the environmental footprint of shipping. Logistics is a "hidden" environmental cost, mostly because there is so much shipping that the added cost for any single product is very small. You're more likely to find cheaper products of any sort in supermarkets that are shipped long distances than local products. But that is an absurdity created by economies of scale and basically shipping everything via centralized logistics centers.
I'm super careful because first there's a lot of green washing (especially now in Japan where I feel like a lot of companies jump on the SDGs marketing wagon without having the proper philosophy prior to it) and second mass production even green/clean etc is still mass production (I think I'm an anticapitalist 😅).
Wow thanks for sharing this, but yeah I feel like this maybe Rakuten’s way to appeal to those who care about the environment. Very few of these items seem to be local products. The way they say it’s certified by all those associations…. It just doesn’t seem very plausible.
I also do my best to be environmentally friendly. Especially in the bathroom and kitchen. In my bathroom, I only use hard soaps, use a metal razor and try to save all my water while the water is warming up. It’s hard to get my head around bath culture in Japan. Sometimes I take a cold shower with leftover water. In my kitchen, I use so many glass jars, beeswax wraps, and organic cleaners and compost. And of course I am vegetarian trying to be vegan. The hard part about having a pet is its not so much eco friendly, because I am constantly changing my small animal’s bedding, every 2 weeks, but atleast I use recycled paper.
Zero Waste is hard to achieve in Japan due to all the plastic packaging. For years, I have been composting, frugal shopping, reusing, and considering all that comes into my home as resources, including packaging.I take a zero-waste lifestyle as a daily challenge, like a game. Most months, I only produce a single bag each of burnable and nonburnable garbage.And I have a helper, a pet compost box!https://www.city-cost.com/blogs/TonetoEdo/MYX06-living_howto
It's a chance you have all these ships around you. I only have the supermarket 😅 in the past I could go to a local farmers market in the city but now I work that day
I sort/separate my garbage, I try to buy local and seasonal vegetables and fruits. I live in an apartment but I grow vegetables/plants and I have a DIY composting system. I save water from showers. I use my ecobags at the supermarket. I don't have a car. I make stuff (food for example), I fix stuff, I try not to buy. I use the public library etc.
On top of it: I won't have children lmao
I do these stuff just because I feel like doing it. I don't wanna claim that I'm a role model for sustainability or environment friendlyness. It's just 100% egoistic actions but it happens to be in the sustainability vibes... I mean of course I care for the environment and sometimes when I see all that single use plastic and consumption I feel really bad but dude I'm on long haul flights when I visit my home country and i place an iHerb order every 2 months..Greta would be shocked.
Number one on my list is to: use less. It's the first of the 3 Rs. If in doubt, just don't but it. If I do buy something, I usually buy it used–other than food, that is. lol Although many people who try to be environmentally friendly speak openly about buying organic foods, I care more about sourcing my food locally whenever possible. I do try to use products that use fewer chemicals and with less packaging, but buying locally reduces the environmental footprint of shipping. Logistics is a "hidden" environmental cost, mostly because there is so much shipping that the added cost for any single product is very small. You're more likely to find cheaper products of any sort in supermarkets that are shipped long distances than local products. But that is an absurdity created by economies of scale and basically shipping everything via centralized logistics centers.
I don't know what it worthes but I just got an ad about this on Insta.
Rakuten earth mall.
Fair trade products, organic products...
I'm super careful because first there's a lot of green washing (especially now in Japan where I feel like a lot of companies jump on the SDGs marketing wagon without having the proper philosophy prior to it) and second mass production even green/clean etc is still mass production (I think I'm an anticapitalist 😅).
Do you know this mall? What do you think?
I also do my best to be environmentally friendly. Especially in the bathroom and kitchen. In my bathroom, I only use hard soaps, use a metal razor and try to save all my water while the water is warming up. It’s hard to get my head around bath culture in Japan. Sometimes I take a cold shower with leftover water. In my kitchen, I use so many glass jars, beeswax wraps, and organic cleaners and compost. And of course I am vegetarian trying to be vegan. The hard part about having a pet is its not so much eco friendly, because I am constantly changing my small animal’s bedding, every 2 weeks, but atleast I use recycled paper.
Zero Waste is hard to achieve in Japan due to all the plastic packaging. For years, I have been composting, frugal shopping, reusing, and considering all that comes into my home as resources, including packaging. I take a zero-waste lifestyle as a daily challenge, like a game. Most months, I only produce a single bag each of burnable and nonburnable garbage. And I have a helper, a pet compost box! https://www.city-cost.com/blogs/TonetoEdo/MYX06-living_howto
I sort/separate my garbage, I try to buy local and seasonal vegetables and fruits. I live in an apartment but I grow vegetables/plants and I have a DIY composting system. I save water from showers. I use my ecobags at the supermarket. I don't have a car. I make stuff (food for example), I fix stuff, I try not to buy. I use the public library etc.
On top of it: I won't have children lmao
I do these stuff just because I feel like doing it. I don't wanna claim that I'm a role model for sustainability or environment friendlyness. It's just 100% egoistic actions but it happens to be in the sustainability vibes... I mean of course I care for the environment and sometimes when I see all that single use plastic and consumption I feel really bad but dude I'm on long haul flights when I visit my home country and i place an iHerb order every 2 months..Greta would be shocked.