How do you make sustainable residing a regular a part of your lifestyle and each day actions?
That’s the aim of Zero Waste Malaysia (ZWM), a non-profit organisation and neighborhood group that advocates sustainable improvement and goals to enhance the local people’s consciousness of sustainable residing.
Established in 2016, ZWM desires to normalise zero-waste residing by two flagship occasions – ZWM’s third Zero Waste Festival named Under the Stars (Oct 1), adopted by the return of the 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge (Oct 1-30).
The Under the Stars Zero Waste Festival is a lakeside picnic occasion on Oct 1 (2pm-9pm), held at Taylor’s Lakeside Campus in Subang Jaya, Selangor that may contain over 30 distributors (meals, crafts and different merchandise), workshops and a energetic open mic night time – all to be held with out producing new waste.
During the pageant, no single-use disposables will likely be used, a transfer in the direction of creating a greener Malaysia. Participants are inspired to deliver their very own reusable containers to buy issues.
The aim of the pageant is to present Malaysians that we will reside a sustainable lifestyle and to deal with the misconceptions of it being troublesome, costly and time-consuming.
The open mic night time is open to all musicians, artistes and performers. It will embrace a gentle projection expertise in addition to a particular visitor look by Zee Avi.
Get your free tickets to the Zero Waste Festival here.
Participants are inspired to deliver their very own reusable containers to buy meals and different issues on the Under The Stars Zero Waste Festival.
Mission 30: Zero Waste Challenge
It takes time to develop good habits and when it comes to sustainable residing practices, it’s no totally different.
The third Zero Waste Festival can even kick off ZWM’s newest version of the 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge occurring all through the month of October.
Mission 30: Zero Waste Challenge will enable Malaysians to see what it’s like residing with low waste for a complete month.
“We are extremely excited to finally have our 3rd Zero Waste Festival. We believe this gathering is the perfect chance for Malaysians to reset their mindsets after a long period of heavy and unavoidable waste-generation during the pandemic.
ZWM’s first Zero Waste Fest in 2017.
“The follow-up challenge will also give everyone a platform to experience and practise living sustainably with plenty of support from our team,” stated ZWM director, Khor Sue Yee.
This is ZWM’s second time working the challenge, which goals to create lasting sustainable habits. This 12 months’s challenge relies on a Mission 30 theme, calling members ‘agents’ who’re on a mission to battle local weather change and shield our world, with the aim of incorporating gamification and pleasure to the environmental challenge.
Lucrative prizes await winners.
Register for the 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge here.
