My ecological practices

I think I m not very green, but in the last time, I try to incorporate some practices to reduce my garbage production. For example, I don´t drink sodas, because they are very dangerous with our body (sugar, sweetener, and a lot of chemical products) and you gain a plastic bottle difficult to recycle. In the same idea, I try to buy wholesale hygiene and clean products, or in a big bottle (it means just one bottle, not 3 or 4). At home in Algarrobo, we have a compost hole in the garden, to recycle our organic waste, and we cultivate tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelons, and other kind of medicine and cook plants using this compost.

I began to approach at this issue because I m vegetarian, and I m really worry about animals, and I try to use just “cruelty free” products. In general, there is a very strong relationship between animal cruelty and the use of dangerous chemicals products in the cosmetic production. I think is very important to be aware about the origin of the products we use every day, it is the first step to change our practices.

I don´t support to any eco-organization, but I have a lot of vegetarian friends and I know people really interested about environmental. In Santiago, I go with some friends to “gratiferia” , it is like a fair or a street market but all things you can find there are totally free. It is a very fun way to meet people and give useless things because somebody could need it.