I truly admire what Bea has achieved and she is a great role model for the consumer society we have become. I’m with her on waste reduction as a goal for an household and I avoid plastic as much as possible. Unfortunately, not everyone will achieve a "zero waste life" tomorrow nor in the next decades. Additionally waste is also generated by industries. Therefore, we should combine solutions and we should not blame incinerators. Indeed, waste that is processed through incineration is a fantastic source of energy. In Sweden, more than 20% of their energy comes from waste incineration. Modern incinerators have a very low CO2 emissions rate which has dropped by 99% in recents years, a lot better than petrol. Again, Bea is doing the right thing (bravo, really) but solutions should be combined and not blamed.

She truly is inspiring! I also love her sense of humor

9:15 ,one more way of avoiding business cards is taking a pic of that card from ur mobiles

An amazing speech! Love her outlook. This woman is awesome 👏

I met her in bali and OMG she was such a delight just amazing. She is so amazing in person. She made me give up all my paper towels and refuse plastic bags. Amazing woman

yesss more people need to watch this!!

The business card thing: I take a picture of the card on my phone, hand the card back to them and say, "here, I know these cost you money."

Great talk..why is this not more prevalent in the USA?

YES!! Happy Earth Day, fellow Earthlings! 🌏

She's brilliant!

Bravo!!!👍👍👍 Miss Johnson is amazing!!!A great role model~~ 💖💖💖🌟🌟🌟🍎🍎🍎

Bea, well done, very good presentation, agreed with you to Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot to ensure we recycle less and with that in mind we can ensure environmental sustainability and achieved the ZERO WASTE goal.

Just amazing......she deserves a noble....salute to her!

amazing woman

Great talk! Truly inspirational

She is such a hero to me.

As always, she is a really mind-blower So placent to heard she.

What a dud of a crowd. She is quite a dynamic speaker and makes some funny comments. These people just sit there like lumps on a log.

This lady sure knows how to start a presentation

useful information!

If we really want to become zero waste, then we should start farming and gardening our own food. Instead of toilet paper just wash our privates with water. We will be spending money on what we need for the farm only and that's it. It's less pollution and no need for packaging or even going grocery shopping. It's a lot of hard work but we will stay in shape and be feeding ourselves. It's a win win situation.

Yes, I've heard this about recycling...didn't know if it was true.

I love her speech, I love her shoes

Béa tu es formidable!!!! ❤️

A true eco goddess

Как здорово, что жизнь без отходов распространяется по всему миру!

just second video watching her and.i start to think what to do to eliminate things

Yes to all that!

Yes you are right, recycling requires energy to process.. what if you obtain required energy from waste ?

Agree in everything....

She is so gorgeous

Grr...and we PAY them to come get our garbage!!!!

that's very inspiring. i can do more to eliminate waste!

The "plastic lumber" is still recyclable. If the product is given the right recycling number like "2" or "5" after re-shaping the plastic.

Hard but it is ny aim when I graduate.. I'm working on this so hard.

I wonder if these tips, especially #2, held-up during quarantine?

👌👌bravo . I love this

it's really hard because buying everything online is cheaper than in stores nowadays :'(

It makes me sad that even as recently as the summer of 2019, one restaurant I visited was still totally not prepared to switch to cloth napkins instead of disposable ones! Gurr! They just went on about not knowing who would clean them, because they certainly weren't going to.

What did people do before plastic? Was all liquids contained in glass?

This woman is truly amazing. Following on Bea's cool humour tone, I have to say that despite those amazingly long legs, she wears shorter trousers to avoid the extra textile waste :))

Her statements on freebies made smile, this is always is hard for me. I hate rudeness, so it is hard

I have mixed feelings about this talk. I agree with her about seeking out reusable items, refusing freebies and reducing where you can-and I even had a "I never had that idea before, I wanna try that out!" when she described using reusable floss and Q-tips and bandages. So I don't intend for my comment to sound like I'm bashing everything she says. But I don't agree that buying things in bulk or asking clerks to sell things to me out of their packaging helps reduce waste. I remember reading the chapter in "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" (a book that I feel has transformed my life) where Marie Kondo discusses stockpiling and why she tells her clients to not do it, and thinking afterwards "Wow, that makes so much sense, I wish I could tell my dad to stop doing it with everything." The short version is this-when you buy large quantities of an item, like, say, pasta or kitchen wrap or Q-tips, you have more difficulty tracking how much you have of that item and keeping that item easy to access, and at a threshold you enter the mindset of "I don't have enough of this item, what if I need it? I need to get more of it" in which there is no amount that would make you feel more secure. I actually found that when I took her advice and stopped bulking on items-in my case, for example, vegetables, fruit, lip balm, pens, stickers, condoms and lube, recipes and TED talks I'd saved on Facebook, ticket stubs and theatre programs I kept as mementos, and even money I'd taught myself to be ashamed of spending-I was actually able to reduce waste, particularly food and packaging waste. Because I went through the items with less greed or FOMO, with more consistency and purpose, and when I did use an item I felt more gratitude for having that item in my life and the resources and energy and labor that went into producing it (I'm reminded of A.J. Jacobs's TED talk about thanking all the people responsible for his coffee). So I avoid trying to bulk or otherwise have large quantities of something except in very rare cases. Perhaps her family goes through unlimited pasta, salad and breadsticks and she can make bulk quantities work for her, but I feel that stockpiling isn't the best advice for most households. Instead, focus on reducing and trust that if you can't reduce it or reuse it any further, what you have left is actually not going to waste.

Allô Béa. J’espère que vous allez bien malgré les contraintes de la pandémie. Question pour vous : est-ce que vous allez ajouter d’autres vidéos à votre chaîne KZfaq où on doit vous suivre sur une autre plateforme ? Passez une belle fin de semaine!💕

listening to this while I chop all my not recyclable plastic into another plastic container

what do you think of the idea of creating an articulated industry for the disposal of complex waste?

I mean, I use towels and "rags" way more than paper towel, as do most guys I know, cause they're just way better all the time.

Por favor alguien tradúzcala al español 🙏❤️

The second tip about shopping bulk is impossible in my country... I went to an eco store and everything was 1. EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE 2. Not even normal food! Everything was "eco", "bio" and in very little amounts. Not a food like normal salt, sugar, bread, spicing, meat and dairy. Not a food you could feed a family with! My mom watched for a few seconds and told me there was nothing worth buying... I'm so disappointed!

Sometimes eliminating single use items is not simple... Take paper cups and plates for example. I use these often. Simply because one, I don't have a dishwasher in my home. Its a really old home that was designed without a dishwasher in mind. And two, I just don't have all this time to wash all these dishes pots pans, kitchen utensils let alone 5 sets of plates and cups for a 5 family home... It could be really easy for someone who owns or has a dishwasher installed to say its simple in this case. But for some people frankly you would have to spend all this money to tear apart your kitchen and remodel it, purchase a dishwasher and install it... and if you don't know how you have to pay someone to do it all for you... not simple... And also think of all the people that also rent in homes that don't have a dishwasher installed... They are stuck in this scenario as well... unless they purchase a sink dishwasher if their landlord lets them which is not always the case let alone being able to afford one.. You can say eliminating single use items is "simple" in some cases but not always simple in others. But to say generally that it's "simple" to do is really not realistic and a little over confident to say. It's a little self righteous to say this is simple or to even tell someone you need to be selfless and wash more dishes especially if you have the privilege of having a dishwasher already installed or have the money to make this possible.

When u tell people these kind of things though, they look at u like ur crazy or call u green

What is the option when ordering food to a restaurant?

No bulk places anywhere near me :-(

superstores could provide thick paper bags instead of plastic and anyway everything is dupmed in same landfill wether you recycle or not.

You know it seems the third is most hardest of all the step

How can plastic wrap be substituted?

in italy there isn't buisness card stonks

The reaction I had reading the title of this video is the same as reading the title of Jennette McCurdy's book (I'm Glad My Mom Died)

Please contact Isabelle Constant, LLC. I would like to connect with Bea Johnson on a zero waste initiative for the planet.

But again recycling is better than not recycling there are people that can never adjust to zero waste lifestyle and it is sad but it is the truth. So this kind of promotion like recycling is bad is not the best in my opinion. If you could live by these rules it is great and i try to do this too but if someone decides to start with recycling instead of doing nothing that's great too step by step to a better planet.

I'm surprised to see someone who's so on spot with zero waste who still eats animal products....

My husband told me this morning that it is unsafe to buy from bulk containers because there are rats in the market how do you know that they don't get into the containers

she looks a bit like Gisele Bunchen

Lots of GREAT IDEAS which when practiced with VEGANISM is the #1 best combined way to slow the massive damage humans have already ungratefully inflicted on the only planet we’ll ever get. Peace

Un capisco

After knowing about the lives of the Holy Saints of Catholic church on YT and all the sacrifices and fasting and martyrdom they made... What she asks is barely nothing. Take the Cross.

What about condoms? They are one form of waste that doesn't have an alternative.

what about toilet paper?

As long as there are humans we will have waist.

If you really care about the environment you need to go vegan. watch Cowspiracy and see the real harm you are doing.

I hate to be THAT vegan but..... the amount of waste that animal products produce vastly outweighs all of these efforts. A shame as she's clearly very environmentally conscious and probably doesn't realise- so good on her for trying!

... how do you go without toiletpaper or new clothes when they get holes in them... I don't buy it, shes not going "zero waste" its really not possible in our society today. There aint reusable toilet paper... ok nows shes starting to sound unsanitary. I mean its good, but this might be too far. Admirable though

No, don't agree with her. To live with as low a footprint as possible, we need to evaluate both sides of the coin. Say for example that she need to use the car to bring all her containers to the store while I buying the stuff the normal way are able to use my bicycle. I wouldn't be surprised if her footprint was larger than mine.

If this lady really cares about the environment then she shouldnt be ordering CHEESE.

Bet she threw away her old coffee jars, jam jars and tupperware before splashing out on Kilner jars. The same with her make up before deciding to use crushed charcoal, paprika powder and cocoa powder instead. Zero waste is nothing new. Jocasta Innes was using thrifty methods when it comes to home decor and furniture a long time ago. Many people have been using a few of these ideas for ages. She's just taken them all and conglomerated them.