Do you know what invisible waste is?

We live in a world, fortunately, increasingly aware of the problem of climate change and more committed to the actions that must be taken to stop it.

But even if we do our part at home and recycle plastic, cardboard, glass … there is a series of waste that we generate without even realizing it and that is a great detriment to our planet.

They are the so-called invisible waste and in today’s post we tell you what they consist of.

What is invisible waste?

Invisible waste is all the garbage that is generated to make an object.

A mobile phone, for example, generates about 86 kilos of waste during its production process, not counting the pollution derived from its continuous use.

Some jeans generate about 25 kilos of waste, it is pollution that we cannot control a priori, but we can do something so that the impact is not so strong.

Extending the useful life of an object will make those invisible residues of which we speak are less.

We can live perfectly without buying a mobile phone every year or without renewing all the clothes in our wardrobe.

How to combat invisible waste?

At a particular level we can reduce consumption, as we mentioned.

On many occasions we buy new objects and discard the old ones when we could still continue using them without problem, only because of fashions or impulses.

If extending the useful life of the object is not possible, we can always recycle it. Either reconverting its use, (with jeans we can create cushions or aprons for example), or depositing them in the corresponding containers for proper recycling.

We know that this is complicated in a society that constantly encourages us to consume, but we must try.

We add more R to our life

In addition to the already known reduce, reuse and recycle, there are 3 Rs that we can put into practice in our day to day.

Fix

We have become accustomed to throwing away objects when they are damaged, but we can take them to a specialized store and repair them to continue using them.

Recover

Surely if we look around our house, we will find a lot of things that we do not use. If we are no longer going to use them, we can give them away or exchange them with someone who is going to use them.

Renovate

That piece of furniture that is in perfect condition but has become a bit outdated can become a new piece of furniture if you give it a coat of paint in a more current color or if you change the handles, for example.

The important thing is to reduce our ecological footprint to the maximum.