hello to all i love coming to belgium
so I’m happy to be here it’s already
alright so I’m actually dad
of family zero waste a family
who obviously could not come
today
on the other hand, I present our
trash this is our trash
performed at four for a year
this is a jar it’s called bob
yes because we always give a name
in his trash when we kept a small
a little while a year is expected of him
talk what are we bob why we went
set to do this this madness weary of
live with a jar of waste per year I
will you explain all this because we
actually spent 18 years it’s a long 18 years
18 years in the ngo education business
environmental awareness the
protection of all environments
mountain to the ocean countryside that’s it and we
to educate as many people as possible
what we could the active the elected the
children at the impression issue
ecological to the question of change
climatic
and then the question of waste
especially and so we lived all these
years you remember the years
2000 is the development years
sustainable me I lived ecological pact
in 2006 the crosnes she of
the environment in 2007 2008 2009
so walking on the water we were going
change the planet we thought we
would change things from the top
twist a little bit the arms of
policies
well they caught up with us after a
fake little little leaded
but there is a new energy that
happens mostly during all these years
I saw in the middle I saw in
the ecosystem the impact of our mode of
life the impact of our consumption and
especially waste so I have them
picked up the first time at the beginning
it was in the early 2000s with
mountain riders I picked up the butts
the waste on the ski slopes at the
melting snow and at the beginning of the
pollution of the water cycle because I
will give you a scoop sealed
the waste circulates it circulates on
earth and it flows with the cycle of
the water I show you some small
very simple pictures of what I could
see me in his 18 years of
awareness that’s a photo of my
beach
I live in the southwest of France
in the moors in the southern moors
I’m lucky thank you anyway
it’s my beach in January when
the big swell
we went big hollow a while
the winter of the 10 12 m waves we
brings back everything that the water cycle
brings to the ocean
so that’s basically you see some
plastic that will have to pick up
obviously and all that with a little
tiny part of what can happen
in the water cycle it takes if there is
a good one figure that you can
remember that are 200 kg of waste that
happens every second in the ocean
today at the moment of his
kilo that are related to our way of life
we can have on earth his kilo
which are absolutely intolerable since
we are today in a pollution of
the food chain that is really
in depth when this plastic comes
in the ocean it will degrade under
the effect of places of uv to become
small plastic particles that
found on the beach when you go
to bathe
and then especially this plastic is going to get
break up more and more to go
up to 10 or 1.6 up to micro
plastics and polluted the chain
deep food then you
know the continents of decay
and continent of wastes that are
grouped around the globe
he talks and the sea currents in these
areas there is estimated that there are five times
more plastic than plankton and we
believes above all that by 2050 there will be
more plastic fish tail in
the ocean
here is a little bit the state of play of
our planet today and the
plastic that we consume a plastic
which has a long life and that
uses stably and quickly so
a total incoherence that’s what I have
seen obviously with an impact on the
fauna and flora since mammals
sailors birds fishes all that
will eat the plastic and that we
comes back directly since we are doing
still part of the food chain
so why all that rubbish that’s
the big question why we have
as much as why of his kilo per second
because our whole system is based
on consumption
finally I should say overconsumption
hyper consumption
so I do not want to debate the
growth today but I’m going to you
do the ecological translation because
it’s my concern to have a good of
consumption must be extracted from the
matter the planet or give it all
is an incredible generosity and we
let’s draw without bottom of the matter that one
will transform energy today
basically on earth it’s
coal and oil and water because
any industrial process requires
water see a lot of
a t-shirt and 8000 liters of water for
have this consumer goods that is going
finish and you know it in end garbage
of life we are today in a
production logic that is linear
we are very very far very far from
the circular economy we are told
as the great solution to all our ills
so this waste represents when
even 390 kg per person per year if
I add everything that we throw to the
waste is 590 kg of waste
year and I will give you another scoop
tonight is 590 kg sony that part
visible from your waste is what you
happens in the hand and you go
throw yourself in the trash
but most of the waste
that you produce that I produce that
we produce today is hidden she
is in the submerged part of the iceberg
why because these wastes are
related to the manufacturing process let’s take
an example a toothbrush you go
have end of life healthy in this end
of life that I told you all about
time
this little equation you’ll see
thirty seconds 30 seconds 30 grams
of waste that you are going to throw at the
trash but to make this
toothbrush it had to extract from the
matter remember it took the
to transform it had to be conditioned
it took to transport it took the
distribute all along the chain of
life of the toothbrush we will produce
1.5 kg of cats waste
hide so if I take the btp
the agriculture industry in our
country
these fourteen tons of waste that are
hidden and that are related
individually to our way of life and
if I take all that we consume
who comes from far away because you know
like me have produced very far
today mainly in china
I can not give you the tonnage of
hiding garbage by cons what I can
tell you is that every person
every European
each year consumes 50 tons of
resources to reassure one’s way of life
obviously you understood that it is
way too much 50 tons it means
today we have ecological credit
we consume in seven months what we
should consume in 12
we are on ecological credit from
July so that Angers
how to start these sensitizations to
the ecological footprint a few years
a decade ago we talked about the month
of October each year the date is
so we’re at seven months can be that
I will return to do a ted in ten years
we will be in March
and then I say the equation it takes
take matter and transform it
a lot of energy consumes too much so
we liked too much of these changes
climate
I told you that you need water
for this process today half
bodies of water on earth being
overexploitation two-thirds of the water
sweet and beyond his capacity
assimilation of pollution
this is our ecological footprint
today’s state of ecosystems and
our planet and you understood it
it’s linked to our overconsumption
today it is related to our mode of
life is our responsibility here
individual and collective
so all that I’ve summarized this very
quickly but I spent 15 years at
to raise awareness of everything I could
all possible ways of
brochures conference videos
etc.
I did not have to be good because the
growth continued but I thought
to be good I thought I was conscious I
thought I was green I thought I’d do this
that I needed an amap 1 composes
of really I think to be good and
yet I still had this trash
that is, I have children on
the beach pick up the plastic waste
I told them oh the potatoes that’s
finished and then I went home and I
put plastic in my trash
so I had to be schizophrenic I know
not always is it in 2014
with my wife we learned the trash for
try to understand and we have
overturned in our garden
I present it to you
presents two trash cans
today this is our trash in
2014 tried to understand we wanted
see if there was in you have it
essentially consisting of plastic
packaging of any kind and from
we said to ourselves but is it
possible to live without all that is the
question we asked ourselves
we do not know we’re going to get into the
zero waste we first said is this
that we can continue to eat without having
packaging is what can be
continue to play to have a life
social etc.
and that’s how we started our
adventure the first year we went
to a trash can pretty much every
three-four days a ski and the average
to a garbage bin a month the second
year we went to a bin in six
month it was called Martin also to
do not undermine bob I told you we give a
name is beautiful when you go there
look at simon respite the third year
we went to this jar, that is to say
about 1 liter in one year
and then obviously a side a part of
recyclable and then a huge compost
because
you will understand suddenly we buy
a lot of fresh products
how did we do it but just when
they will be found in front of this trash
in 2014 we said wow
what is the solution we looked at
each package a parent of hens who
have found a knife
and then the solution is simple if
you do not want the waste in your
trash do not buy it here is this thank you
do not buy it refuse it is by
against the second question
it’s how to replace it
what solution did I look for
for every food for every thing
that we had at home each property
how to replace it without having a
waste at the end of life and then obviously
we asked ourselves the question is what
I really need it because we are
in a society of overconsumption we
consume too much you know it and he has
we had to reduce if we did not want
waste in our trash at the end of
life you have to own less
so suddenly we got into a
de-cluttering process of
minimalism of minimalism we have everything
sold
we did garage sales for two
years and a half and we really have liquids and
everything we had for really
have the essentials to avoid having it
in the trash
and then when we had to consume we went
asked the question of sustainability
today you know we ‘re in
a logic of obsolescence everything and
obsolescence
in fact the three males m3 teats of
consumption today is advertising
credit and obsolescence so for
fight against it we said we’re going
we need to buy products that
lasts when a product lasts twenty years
you have so much martyrdom
ecological
so we started buying things
sustainable labeled obviously for
limit the impact on production
repairable or extend the duration of
life and then especially at the end of life
that she is virtuous, that is to say
recyclable and we applied it to all
the skirts of our life so I ‘m going
just present you one since I have
no time today but you
present the races the diet
you understood today
the food generates enormously
a lot of packaging since it’s a
globalized system your eye hour is going
to be produced in poland
your tomatoes in andalusia your ketchup
in turkey and so that’s the packaging is
the key to this agrifood system
to get out of the package so we have
chose to have a little racing kit a
tote boxes of small glass
cloth bags is first to go to
our market gardener
that is, to give pride of place to
short circuits
to buy fruits and vegetables a
nice cage to be 50 60 euros for the
week with our eyes
and then we go to our store
bulk with our cloth bag
we take our flour our paws our frieze
our dried fruits everything we need
for to eat and then with
our little glass boxes we go to
our at our merchants to our
cheese our butter all that we are put
in the little box that can be put away
in our case for meat is
like that we eliminated all the
packaging and all containers and O
miracle in passing what is great
it is that we discovered the taste the
taste of food when you
buy your butter at the motte it’s
not a butter on packaged big
surfaces
in any case we supermarkets
today we do not go out we’re out
of the great industrial system of the great
distribution and by the way you go
see we won a lot of things I
show you that in pictures it’s rather
beautiful the beautiful cage is the butter the
cream cheese and then at
we play the molson family with
the jars with all the products in it
I climb up the ladder could look to
eat in the kitchen that’s how we
did I show you just
food but we apply that to
all parts of our daily lives
to eliminate a maximum of waste
today we almost have
almost got to find the
solutions for all we have left
a few things that society
not give us in term of solution I
think for example of recycled glass
raised it may be well in any
case it’s very energy-intensive the chain of
life should better have instructions
I have no instructions where I live so
I still have these glass bottles
drugs the small drugs
laminated aluminum shelves do not
do not recycle so they end up bay
in my beautiful cables etc
and then especially the big problem we
to all today but I will develop
not that they are the computer the
phone and the car and which one is
all dependent archi see addict 1
what did it bring us this mode
of life are playing the ten at the beginning you
want to eliminate the waste we wanted
eliminate this plastic from our trash
and then we wanted a measure so is at
the end of six years of this adventure
we made our carbon footprint we
makes our ecological footprint
our water footprint and our
saving footprint with its four borrow
wanted to measure if our way of life
finally zero waste was a lot
more sustainable for our planet
here I put you a carbon footprint
or miracle when we stop consuming
when we consume opportunities when we
consumes local one goes under the bar
75 kg carbon equivalent per
person and year that it would take everything
what happens to have an impact
limited in terms of warming
climate when we eat local bio
season when we have a short circuit have
carbons his plate
we still go under the small bar of
one hundred and seventy five for food
you understood it another big problem
today it’s the transport is for
the moment I live in the countryside in France
and I have no solution remember the
title ice bergues
I told you 590 kg of waste
products equals 50 tons of resources
consumed
if I stop but logical to
overconsumption if I have more than one
jar at the end of the year a little kilo of
waste obviously I do not consume 50
tons of resources
obviously i did not like as much co2
I do not dream so much water in bulk
doing zero waste we have a
ecological transition and
we attacked limiting our
ecological footprint on the planet
it also allowed us to do a lot
savings in two years it has been calculated that
we had saved 30% on our budget
annual family 30% is a good time
partial especially we went organic
local season that’s it if you want to eat
I wanted to say the key is to go
buy fruits and vegetables and go
at a market gardener in a short circuit
and above all we protect our health
we have toxi completely proud our
feeding our hygiene products
our cosmetics
so we removed all this chemistry that
is toxic and who is going today
generate as many diseases as they say
of civilization we also did good
our morale because of finding
daily detractors solutions to create
social link with short circuits
and people from the territory
but all that makes a lot of good at
moral we say to ourselves here I do not suffer
can be a part of the solution I
can be the hummingbird that will limit its
footprint and that’s a lot
a lot of good morale
and then finally something that we do not
did not expect initially we’re lying in
eating locally by consuming local in
going on short circuits on
favors another
nomi on goes out of the globalized economy
today we suffer all
consequences and we go towards a step
relocation of his purchases a
local and resilient economy
here we have power today
we have to be able to change things
and to be the hummingbirds of change
it is our purchasing power and this
purchasing power it takes no action in
amount of things to consume but rather
in quality how do I consume whom I
give my euros if I give to my
market gardener bio local season I am
actor of change and 7 euros that’s
it’s up to us to decide who we want to
give and then to conclude I have not
lost in comfort
I even gained in quality of life I
wanted to say I saved time I
earned money I saved
many things I protect my
health i promote the local economy
and it is by sobriety
volunteer I gained in quality of life
and that makes you happy
thank you
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