Author: Insight Hujiao
01
Have you ever noticed how much is wasted every time you eat?
Recently, I watched a three-minute short video of Thailand.
In the short film, the little girl and her father are filming a food commercial, and after some tossing and turning, the little girl asks a serious question:
"Do we really make the most of it?"
Dad and the service staff were instantly stunned......
Looking at the items in front of them, they racked their brains to come up with several ways to deal with them:
Use the surplus meat to feed stray animals;
Those disposable chopsticks are made into heat insulation pads;
They also make the excess food into pet food......
I didn't expect that there were so many uses for the unused materials of a meal.
After watching the short video, I couldn't help but ask, "Do we really make the most of things in our daily lives?" ”
For most people, the answer is no. There are so many items, all wasted.
We often discard plastic bags, couriers and cartons for shopping at will;
The clothes, shoes, and bags that we don't wear are simply and rudely thrown away when we are gone;
The bottled water bottles we use have never thought about how to recycle them......
If we can also use our brains to "make the best use of things" like in the short film, these items that we discard at will can actually play a greater value.
02
In recent years, "low-consumption life" has become popular on social media.
But most people don't know how to get started.
In fact, low-consumption living is very simple.
It's not just material minimalism, control your hands, no longer blindly buy, buy, buy, no longer throw at will. Making the most of your belongings is also the right way to open up a low-energy life.
Environmentalist @ One Bag implements the principle of "making the best use of things" in daily life.
Some of the cosmetics she doesn't want to use anymore will be given to friends or exchanged on relevant forums.
Every once in a while, the bag will also sort into the idle items of himself and his friends. After cleaning up, she packs the items and keeps them at the door of her house for those who need them to pick up at will.
She would donate her unused clothes to the welfare home, and for those that were not suitable for donation, she would make them into rags and continue to use them.
When it comes to the change of seasons or the cleaning of the house, do you always throw things away simply and rudely?
In fact, each of us can do this kind of "disconnection" of the bag.
Giving up to make the best use of things can not only make the home cleaner and tidier, but also allow items to be recycled by those who need them.
When we all start to change the way we treat things, this small change can add up and make a huge difference in society.
03
"What you think is useless, you can use it in the future, you haven't seen its value yet, you have to make the best use of it."
This is what the mother of the famous performance artist Song Dong once said.
In life, Song Dong's mother is also a firm practitioner of "making the best use of things". In a letter to his mother, Song Dong recorded the details of his mother's low-cost life.
"I still vividly remember when I was in kindergarten, in order to let me paint, you washed the transparent paper used to wrap the meat filling with water and pasted it on the glass window, and when it was dry, it was flat for me to paint.
I still remember your way of "making the most of everything" about a piece of paper: it can be written and drawn, you can wrap things when you don't use them, you can wipe the table and wipe the floor when you don't use them, you can start a fire to make a stove, and more waste paper can be recycled to make new paper. ”
Yes, what you think is useless is actually of great value.
They can be recycled.
Old clothes that you feel useless can be made into new clothes for your children, or donated for public welfare;
The books you have left idle can join the "100 Libraries Project" of China Resources Beverage, exchange a book for a bottle of water, and prepare for the construction of rural libraries for children in poor areas.
Even the cardboard boxes and plastic films that are used for bottled water every day can be used to the fullest.
Recently, China Resources Beverage has launched the "Unpacking Gifts" activity.
Cartons or plastic films of CRBB's products can be exchanged for CR Beverage's corresponding products.
This activity has been warmly welcomed and actively participated by the majority of small shop owners.
CR Beverage actively responds to the call of circular economy, promotes material recycling, and practices the sustainable and green development path of ESG (environmental, social, governance).
As a leading bottled water company in China, CR Beverage has been actively promoting the "green transformation" of packaging for many years, including encouraging major regions to carry out carton and plastic film bag recycling actions.
Different from the traditional "take-use-discard" model, through recycling and recycling, it reduces waste generation, reduces dependence on primary resources, reduces pressure on the environment, and promotes ecological balance.
In fact, this activity has been done silently for many years, and through the concept of recycling, CR Beverage has practiced social responsibility.
In 2023, hundreds of cities across the country and more than one million retail outlets will participate. Under the mobilization of the company, thousands of CR beverage sales personnel participated in the activities.
China Resources Beverage Sales @ Xiao Luo shared the experience of participating in the event.
In the process of daily visits to customers, they help the boss unpack, pack, count, and then transport them to the centralized point together while publicizing.
Although the salesperson has added a lot of work and requires physical effort, everyone is motivated to think that these items can be "put to good use".
If there is any problem, everyone will work together to solve it.
Everyone's efforts have also achieved outstanding results:
In 2023, more than 60 million cartons and plastic bags were recycled.
Recycling actions reduce waste to landfill and incineration, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, if the recycled material can be reprocessed and reused in other ways, it will further save energy and resources.
In addition, in 2023, CR Beverage will launch the "Baby Remodeling Plan" project.
Recycled plastic bottles, etc., can be turned into a variety of fashionable and practical treasures after a series of operations.
plastic bottle caps, which can be made into public benches; Plastic bottle body, can be made into parasols, backpacks, tote bags, etc.
CR Beverage has also carried out innovative practice projects on the topic of beverage bottle recycling, helping the public experience a new lifestyle of green, low-carbon, recycling-free and promoting the participation of the whole society in plastic recycling.
The "One Book for One Bottle of Water" campaign mentioned above is also an initiative of CR Beverage in the "100 Libraries Project" launched in 2007 and has been persisting for 18 consecutive years. For every book donated by the public, CR Beverage will donate a bottle of water to promote the recycling of books in urban and rural areas.
At the end of last year, in Lijia Primary School in Qingliu County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, China Resources Beverage and China Resources Chemical Materials opened the country's first "low-carbon regeneration theme" public library. Different from previous libraries, the 106 bookshelves, tables and chairs in the library are all made of new materials containing 30% recycled PET beverage bottles, which makes the concept of recycling into children's daily life.
Sustainability is not just a slogan, it is a small habit in our lives, a small thing that happens around us.
Every change in the business and each of us is meaningful.
Only by integrating "green action" into daily life and rooting the concept of sustainable development in our hearts can we truly move towards the green future we yearn for.