ZERO WASTE HOW BREASTFEEDING SAVES 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 footprint  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 WASTED ON:  production extraction packaging transportation distribution disposal      consumption 

INFANT FORMULA BREASTFEEDING CARBON FOOTPRINT...

BREASTFEEDING = ZERO water footprint  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, FIELDS AND FORESTS  Breastmilk comes in one of the most extraordinary packaging in the world.

1 Million Babies bottlefed for a year 20,000 Garbage Trucks per year on infant formula cans alone

BREASTMILK SAVES TREES, FIELDS AND FORESTS  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 formula 12.5 square meters of rain forest

BREASTFEEDING  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.

BREASTFEEDING  Most overlooked means of contributing to the health of the planet  Waste-free renewable resource

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