Issue Selection-Waste Reduction

I’ve always been the one kid in the cafeteria harping on the others about what could be recycled and what couldn’t.  You could find me looking through my family’s trash in order to salvage scraps of plastic to be recycled or reused.  Waste and the lack of recycling options has always been something important to me, and I’ve decided that it is the issue I’m going to focus on this semester.  While I’m very passionate about this topic, since coming to college I’ve gradually done less to reduce my personal waste, and now I want to see how little waste I can create in the next few months.  I’m looking to go “Zero Waste” and this is the perfect opportunity for me to document my journey.

I’m very passionate about sustainability in general and considered other topics such as water and land conservation, but waste reduction seems like an issue I can solve on a more personal level, and it is something I’ve wanted to explore for a while.   I think that all of the resources I need to go zero waste exist here at OSU, I just have to be willing to seek them out.  It will be a pretty big transition for me, but at the end of the semester I hope to be more conscious of smaller decisions that I make in my life.  I think that the only barrier that I will encounter will be my own laziness.  However, I’m hoping that by setting smaller goals I can achieve big results come spring.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *