Sustainability Project Final Reflection

During this project, the most challenging thing for me was that Ms Veron is already very sustainable, so I have had to be creative in finding all of the little things that can we can change in our lives. When it is all added together can make a big impact on the world. We took an even closer look to see the small things that we can change. We decided on looking at toiletries in particular and all of the packaging that usually comes with it, we found you can buy shampoo in a bar and use a wooden toothbrush and just replace the head. There is also a company that sells deodorant and you can send the bottles back to be reused. I really enjoyed coming up for these solutions for Ms Veron and then changing altering them for me to try in my routine as well. I have started to think about the length of my showers and trying to minimise packaging

 

 

Initial Individual Reflection

Decision making:

At the start of this project, I found that flying is one of the biggest contributors to the carbon footprint. And I know that UWC teachers usually fly a lot. My partner and I decided to focus on transportation, we also found that farming animals is a massive contributor to carbon footprint so we decided to ask about food consumption. We knew that we would face a challenge that a lot of the teachers are already sustainable, especially Ms Veron and her family.

Ms Veron said that she flies a lot but it is mostly for family reasons so I don’t think it would be reasonable to ask her to limit that (I have the same problem of flying too much). We found that she has a small garden so we decided to suggest composting because that is something that we do and I think it is working for us