Robert Sheehan Instagram – Hello, So here’s a little update on my zero waste mish. It’s been about since August(ish), when I started getting my main shop at zero waste markets. At first it felt jarring and labour intensive, to have to bring bags and containers and fill them up at the shop, but now it feels habitual. Food shopping has become a more interesting experience, and my appetite to try new things has increased. Plus, it compels me to eat healthier, and eat healthier versions of unhealthy stuff. So that’s (little to) no single use plastic waste from my food shop. At work shooting Umbrella, I avoid single use plastics by leaving my reusable cup (for tea / coffee) there, and some nice cutlery in a drawer (far more pleasant to than eating with a crappy plastic fork that snaps on a cold carrot). So that’s no daily disposable cups / cutlery. I bring some bottles of dressingg Production have kindly made sure we all eat lunch / breakfast from compostable or cardboard containers. At home, I do the organic waste bin in the freezer technique (picture). Lemon peels, teabags and eggshells (eggshells are great for crushing up and putting straight in your plant pots). Gratefully, Toronto city do a curbside food waste collection service, so my scraps either become compost for more growing, or are fed into an anaerobic digester and harnessed for energy. That offsets the need for more oil and natural gas. Toronto’s aim in the future is to refine their process to the point where our food waste keeps us all warm. If I get takeout – now this isn’t 100% of the time, sometimes I get deliveries – I bring my containers to the restaurant and they put the food in those. Again, at first it felt very alien and cumbersome to be lugging lunchboxes to my local restaurant in a bag, but from the familiar expression on the restauranteur’s face behind the counter, I realised I wasn’t the only one. Far from it. Lots of people are doing this to avoid half-a-bin’s worth of unnecessary single use plastic or styrofoam sitting in their bin after their dinner. You can also filter your Uber eats searches to show takeout restaurants that are committed to compostable / sustainable packaging (Continued in comments…) Planet Earth