Gale said that the family saves money by purchasing other products second-hand.
“Once you have established new habits, it doesn’t really take a lot of effort to maintain them. It eventually becomes your new normal,” she said.
“Last year we put our black bin out for the first time in April and we wanted to beat that this year – which we did!”
Gale added that even though it now takes the family nine months to fill their black bin, it still took them ten years to get to this point in their zero-waste journey.
This just goes to show that sustainability is a journey of consciousness change and behaviour change.
These changes don’t happen overnight, but rather are the culmination of all the small steps you as an individual, family and community member take.
If Jen and her family can do it we all can too!
That’s it for this week – three awesome stories of positive behaviour and change that are reasons to be cheerful and will almost certainly lead to a better future!
We salute the changemakers and positive people helping our planet be better and we hope our readers can join them in making what change they can.