- something went horribly wrong. i'm a worm murderer. this month i tried to live zero waste. i had no idea what i was doing, but i learned along the way,
crash diet in 4 days, from just trying not tomake any trash day to day, and from speaking toexperts along the way. (upbeat funk music) the average american makes about
4.3 pounds of trash in one day. and i'm going to betrying to make no trash. whenever i hear about wherethe environment's going, i get really scared, and it makes me feel very powerless. how much waste does the averageperson in la make per month? - about 150 pounds per month. - wow. i think this is gonnabe really hard for me.
and i'm not necessarilyreally looking forward to it. i'm struggling with howi'm supposed to eat, because most food comes in packages. maybe i should try to go into the woods and forge for some nuts and berries? i'm having a hard time figuring out where the line ends and begins. i'm eating these tacos,and they're on plates. maybe i'm not evensupposed to be doing this.
i wash my hands, and iunconsciously waved my hand and now i have this. i'm cranky because i'vebeen going hungry a lot. so i need to find a better solution than just eating bananas. (groaning) how important is it thatwe reduce our waste? what's really at stake for us if we don't? - we're stewards of this land,
so every time we negativelyimpact the system, we're actually jeopardizing our ability to breathe, drink water, consume food. - so i went to the store, and i brought my jarsand i was able to fill up with some quinoa from the bulk bins. and some other items. the nice side effect of this is that i am forced to eat very healthy.
because i'm not able to eat anything that comes in packaging. which is most processed foods. i am realizing that beingable to do this challenge is a privilege in itself. because a lot of packaged, processed foods are the cheapest foods. and fresh produce can be really expensive. but collectively, i'm spending less money.
these are the food scrapsfrom a stir fry i made. and i'm not going to eat them,but i can't throw them away. i'm keeping my compost in my freezer until i can figure outwhat i'm gonna do with it. i used to think that ineeded different soaps for different things, but now i'm realizingthat soap is just soap. this is a meal i made. it was harder to get allthe ingredients zero waste,
but feeling pretty good. i'm here at griffithpark composting facility, on a saturday morning,and i'm gonna take a class to learn how to compost. i learned in the workshop that a vermicompost wouldbe the best for an apartment that didn't have access to soil. so i set about making one. i'm starting my in home worm bin,
and i have egg shells, andegg cartons for roughage then i have my red wigglers,and i'm very excited. - [friend] ahh! - (bleep) you, that's so gross. let me see. - oh my god, no. - [woman in challenge]they're kinda cute, right? - yeah, i kinda like them. - and look, see they're burrowing down.
and they're gonna eat the food scraps. this is getting easier everyday, and it's feeling really nice actually. cause i always would feel kind of bad about all the trash that i was using, and it's awesome to like, put that feeling into action, and actually do something about it. another zero waste meal.
where does the trash in la go? - the trash goes to a transfer station, where it is sorted andthen it is trucked out to a local landfill. - so how many pounds ofwaste does sunshine canyon take in per day? - about 8,500 tons ofrough use in per day. - the majority of that comesfrom the city of los angeles. and there's quite a few otherfacilities around the area
that handle the remaining 70%. if you think of the oldgarbage dump, right? that people refer to. it's nothing like that anymore. these are highly engineered. - why does a landfill have to close, and what happens to alandfill once it closes? - the landfill will reacha certain elevation, where then it can be closed
and put back as best as it can, right? to the way it was before. unfortunately, the trash is in there. - i'm done. and i feel very happy, sad. i made this in a month. tags from reusable bags. some advil. tags from the mason jar.
a delicious drum stick. a teabag. this was like what the socks came in. floss. i couldn't reuse this part. what can an average persondo to reduce their trash? - reduce, reuse, recycle. - we all like to buythings packaged real nice, knowing no on touched 'em.
the reality that is creatinga lot of extra packaging. - [bonny] we need peopleto start thinking about, is the disposable productthat they're using really adding that value to their life? - i think one personcan make a difference. - one person can really evaluate everything that they're consuming, and make some changes. you don't have to give up everything,
but start with one thing. and what i've noticed is itspreads throughout your choices. (ambient electronic music)
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