Circular Economy - Role of the Citizen

5 Tips to Promote a Circular Economy

The path of sustainability and concern for the environment goes hand in hand with the five principles of Circular Economy: Rethinking, reducing, reusing, repairing and recycling. Combined, these concepts open the door to numerous solutions that can be adapted to the everyday life of each family, to build a new global paradigm from small individual gestures. The following are 5 ideas to reduce consumption and extend the lifespan of what is used at home. To bet on the five "R's" of the Circular Economy is to abandon the pattern of "resources-production-consumption-waste," the economic and industrial concept that has most damaged the planet. It's in making that a simple empty candy jar or a can of cookies can transform into plenty of things before they get back to being just glass, plastic or metal.

Go through our list of tips to promote a Circular Economy with small gestures, check and find out if you're on the right track to change the world.

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Rethinking what you eatRethinking consumption is fundamental. Eating fruit or vegetables out of season means using more water and energy for its production. On the other hand, food consumption outside their season means it probably requires transportation from other countries, so it has a footprint that generates polluting gases. If you don't need to use tomato to cook, enjoy the months from April onwards to plant, if you have a vegetable garden, or buy more tomatoes and cook homemade tomato pulp, which you can store for the rest of the year. In addition to sustainable, the tomato from these months will be more tasty!
Reduce to avoid wasteThink about whether you really need to buy something before you do it - this will cause you to reduce your consumption. Then, when shopping, start by setting weekly menus and prioritizing bulk purchases in order to acquire exactly what you need. At home, rethink before you throw out any surplus: The potato peels make for great snacks if baked with olive oil, thick salt and herbs; the stems, leaves and vegetable peels, brought to a slow boil, make for a tasty broth. If you can't live without drinking bag coffee, enjoy the lees to fertilize plants or to make an exfoliant: Just let them dry overnight, and mix them with olive oil. Your skin will thank you.
Reuse until you can no longerMore than making plastic evil, the problem lies in single-usage objects. In other words, when it comes to ending plastic, it's good to know that replacing all your tupperwares with glass containers is more harmful than using what you already have, until they can no longer fulfill their purpose. Thus, avoid anything that is of single-usage, not allowing for its reuse: Replace plastic bags with versatile and resistant nets; avoiding purchases in plasticized packaging, opt for reusable bottles, cups, and flasks, keep glass containers, such as bottles, for further usage.
Repair instead of throwing awayShoes with a detached sole, a furniture with scratched wood or even an appliance that has stopped working, do not need to have the garbage as their sole destination. Quite the opposite. Extending the life of objects around us is a way to save money, and also, the planet. Why not take advantage of free time to learn online some woodworking techniques and recover that family trimmer, following the example of the Vargas family, in our web series?
Recycle as part of a cycleFinished the life-cycle of an object - rethink if there is nothing you can still do before you throw it away - recycling ensures its return by another route. Choose a bin for your home that allows for this immediate division, and then, ensure that you dispose of your trash in the correct places, allowing for a product to be raw material again and not just more volume in a landfill. If you have questions about the destination to give to your trash, check out Quercus's Wasteapp.

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