Discards in a bottle: Tin's trash for the past five months – anything that hasn't been composted or recycled – fits in a 500ml jar. Photo: The Star/Sam Tham
A handful of discards, loosely packed in a 500ml glass jar. That’s all the trash generated in five months by Tin Fong Yun and her husband Lau Tzeh Wei. Many have pooh-poohed the idea of a zero-waste lifestyle but here is one couple who shows that it is possible to live a life with practically no rubbish.
In January, they embarked on a mission to be waste-free this year. By sticking to certain rules and careful planning, they have almost eliminated trash from their lives. What’s in that jar is stuff which they cannot recycle or compost, and has to go to the rubbish dump – things like used plasters, pill blister packs, dental floss, plastic bits like part of a SIM card, sticky price labels, and airline luggage tags.
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