zero waste how breastfeeding saves the environment
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ZERO WASTEZERO WASTEHOW BREASTFEEDING HOW BREASTFEEDING SAVES THE ENVIRONMENTSAVES THE ENVIRONMENT
Velvet Escario-Roxas
Zero waste does not occur spontaneously in today’s modern world.
Humans are the only inhabitants on earth that produces abundant waste that cannot be reused or assimilated back into the natural environment.
Zero Waste is a strategy or design principle as we use more natural resources thus increasing our toxic and destructive leftovers.
We can do this by minimizing waste, maximizing recycling, reducing our consumption and making sure that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.
BREASTFEEDING
Nothing is wasted or becomes unwanted at every stage.
BREASTFEEDING = ZERO carbon BREASTFEEDING = ZERO carbon footprintfootprint
Carbon footprint is amount of carbon (usually in ton) being emitted by an activity, individual, community, organization or business.
Breastfeeding has no waste product and leaves no carbon footprint.
The only extra but very minimal carbon emissions produced through breastfeeding are in the production of the few extra calories that a breastfeeding woman requires in her food intake.
NO PRECIOUS ENERGY IS NO PRECIOUS ENERGY IS WASTED ON:WASTED ON:
productionextraction
packaging
transportationdistribution
disposalconsumption
INFANT FORMULAINFANT FORMULA BREASTFEEDINGBREASTFEEDING
CARBON FOOTPRINT...CARBON FOOTPRINT...
BREASTFEEDING = ZERO water BREASTFEEDING = ZERO water footprintfootprint
Breastfeeding leaves zero water footprint.
For the first six months of an exclusively breastfed baby, no water is needed.
Water footprint is the volume of fresh water used for the goods and services produced by a business or used by an individual or a community.
The more infant formula that gets made, transported and consumed, the more water gets used.
Water footprint refer to water used: in growing and raising cows, processing of infant formula, and especially the water pollution caused.
Growing an industry of cows contaminates water.
Their excrements and fertilizers used to grow wheat/grass/corn to feed them pollute rivers, lakes and groundwaters, affecting all ecosystems dependent upon those bodies of water.
BREASTMILK SAVES TREES, BREASTMILK SAVES TREES, FIELDS AND FORESTSFIELDS AND FORESTS
Breastmilk comes in one of the most extraordinary packaging in the world.
1 Million Babies bottlefed for a year1 Million Babies bottlefed for a year
20,000 Garbage Trucks per year20,000 Garbage Trucks per yearon infant formula cans aloneon infant formula cans alone
BREASTMILK SAVES BREASTMILK SAVES TREES, FIELDS AND TREES, FIELDS AND FORESTSFORESTS
No need to clear land and forests if babies are breastfed.
Producing infant formula causes inefficient use of land, cutting of trees, clearing of forests and soil erosion.
In Mexico:
1 kilo of infant formula1 kilo of infant formula
12.5 square meters of rain forest12.5 square meters of rain forest
BREASTFEEDINGBREASTFEEDING
Demand and supply cycle
What the baby needs, the mom’s breast can supply.
The ingredients in breastmilk is the exact perfect nutrition that the baby needs.
Easily absorbed by the body.
Moms who exclusively breastfeed their babies and continues to do so experiences delayed menstruation for an average of 14 months.
Breastfeeding contributes to child spacing.
Infant milk companies have polluted our land, air and water all in the name of profit.
BREASTFEEDINGBREASTFEEDING
Most overlooked means of contributing to the health of the planet
Waste-free renewable resource
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