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Right after graduating from NYU, she started to live a Zero Waste life: this means she only produces a jar of trash in months – a small jar too. Lauren got the idea during her college years, when her Seventh Generation fame professor Jeffrey Hollender urged his students to live their values. She had always been interested in helping the environment, but the point when she decided to turn her life from ethically addressed to practically ethical was when she noticed how much trash her fellow students produced by bringing lunch from home or buying it in the campus. A few days later her Trash is for Tossers project begun. The aim is to live without producing any non-recyclable, non- compostable waste. Lauren's path has been getting more and more waste-free every month. First she started with bringing her lunch around in glass jars instead of plastic containers, then she managed to substitute all of her bags with canvas ones, and now she even makes her own soaps and makeup. 6 Issue 78 / 2015 GUESTLIST guestlist.net Spending Money 24-year-old Environmental Studies major Lauren Singer decided she'd had enough of waste in her life "A fellow environmental studies major would bring lunch to class every week in a single use plastic bag, a disposable water bottle, and a plastic takeout container. I would sit there and think, we are supposed to be the future of this planet and here we are with our trash, messing it up" is what she wrote on her blog. TraSh iS for ToSSerS If you can spend on yourself, you can spend on others instead Guestlist launched the Spending Money Challenge to raise awareness of an issue that affect all of us; consumerism. We spend money on a lot of bullshit AND we need to take care of others more. The Spending Money Challenge aims to highlight how much we spend on things we don't need to and how we could use that same cash to change someone else's life. When you get nominated, you take something you've spent money on recently and you give the same amount of money away to a good cause of your choice. You nominate someone else to do the challenge and pass on the love! If you can spend money on yourself, you can spend money on other people too, right? Take this opportunity to do good and to make your friends do good too. It's now time to make the world just that little bit better together! EASy wAy to uSE LESS wAStE bring a reusable bag and bottle with you everywhere shop at markets avoid individually wrapped items evaluate whether you really need something 1. SpEnd on you 2. do SoME good 3. noMInAtE d SoMEonE ELSE #spendingmoneychallange introducing the Spending Money Challenge

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