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Being "zero waste" means that we adopt steps towards reducing personal waste and minimizing our environmental impact.

Our community places a major focus on the 5 R's: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot. We practice this by reducing consumption, choosing reusable goods, recycling, composting, and helping each other improve.

We also recognize excess CO₂, other GHG emissions, and general resource usage as waste.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BruceLee@lemmy.ml to c/zerowaste@lemmy.ml

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We going back to school in a little bit and I was looking for idea to reduce my waste on that part. There is so many one use items there, usually sell wrapped in a lot of paper and plastic.

One question I have is about fountain pen : Is it better than ball pen given the plastic ink reservoirs that are discarded. I'm open to any suggestion on the back-to-school topic.

Here are mine :

Always check what is not use or not finish for the past year before starting your shopping list
Trade with family, friend and neighbour what your didn't need last year for something they didn't use
Buy single unwrapped pen, felt pen and alike in stationery store. Bonus, buying the one or two felt pens or highlighters color you saves a lot
Use a small white/black-board instade of a draftbook.

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[–] danakongur@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

i'm a fountain pen user. while you can use single use cartridges, there are also refillable cartridges and pens that just have a reservoir to fill manually with a bottle of ink. i have a refillable cartridge but honestly i prefer just filling a disposable cartridge with a syringe.

might be harder to use a refillable something if this is for a child.

and i'm not sure about how wasteful refillable ballpoint pen is vs fountain pen cartridges. maybe one cartridge for ballpoint lasts longer but i'm not sure.