THE ‘NO IMPACT FAMILIE 1
Can you imagine life with no TV? What about no toilet paper?
In the Beavan family's New York apartment, there isn't a TV,
a washing machine, a dishwasher or a fridge and they're only
using one electric light bulb. In the bathroom, there aren't any
shampoo bottles, rolls of toilet paper or tubes of toothpaste.
They make them or use alternatives.
Some people think that they're crazy, but Colin Beavan explains
that it's just an experiment._The Beavans are living like
this for a year because they want to reduce their impact on the
environment. At the end of the year they'll decide what they
really need and what they can live without.
They're trying to create less rubbish and use less electricity
and fuel. That's the reason why they never travel by car.?
They buy second-hand things for the apartment and they buy
food at a market,
where they can avoid
Can you save the planet
plastic bags, packets
without driving your family crazy?
and boxes. They
NO
carry the food home
in a basket, not a
plastic shopping bag.
They don't buy any
food which comes
from more than 400
IMPACT
MAN
kilometres away
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