 Since 2019, UC Berkeley has celebrated Zero Waste October as the aims to be Zero Waste Month. The Student Environmental Resource Center, a CRC, organizes a series of events each year under the extensive slogan of Zero Waste October raising awareness for further progress in waste reduction on campus overall and equipment students with the skill sets to achieve this goal. So we started off the month with like an educational event that we hosted in partnership with the Students of Color Environmental Collective and so we spoke about waste and environmental justice. We had a bunch of different events or there's still some coming up. We had a handful of clothing swaps hosted by Reuse, the football game as well that happened this month against Oregon State with like a Zero Waste game. So the Cal Zero Waste Department without their tabling and engaging with football fans on why Zero Waste is important to the athletics even. According to the new California Composal Law of 2022, people and organizations throughout California are required to separate organic material from other garbage using compostable bins provided by towns, cities or counties. UC Berkeley as a school is also making efforts to reduce waste by ensuring disposable dishes and utensils at dining hall are compostable and educating students with slogan of Zero Waste by 2020 and beyond and garbage bin on campus. These efforts led to the achievement of dividing 54% of solid waste from landfill through lacy cream, composting, donating or reselling. I think overall it's much better than like any other place I've been in especially you know with like the bins and all that. There's a lot of really cool like student initiatives and stuff for like Zero Waste and like maintaining transad standards. With this achievement however, the Zero Waste Coalition seeks a higher level of accomplishment for the environmental friendly future of the campus. Biggest issues right now is waste sorting. So a lot of students including myself are coming to Cal and like sorting is super confusing. Many of us come from places where composting isn't a thing and we have like compostable plastics and all these other different kinds of plastics and it's like really hard to know where they go and now as those compostable plastics are everywhere we're also realizing like they're not really contributing much to the compost and like the soil that's being made and it's also it's again it's just still like a wasteful system. It's very much imperfect. To improve the waste situation even more, there are four important tips that we can keep in mind. First of all, reduce the amount of waste on daily basis. Try to choose items with less packaging that ends up as trash. Use cloth napkins instead of paper. There are so many smart choices to reduce waste if you pay attention to them. Secondly, reuse. Even though using disposable dishes and utensils is very more convenient, the continuous usage of those accumulates. Carry water bottle and use reusable grocery bags. These tiny efforts also save your money. The next thing you can do is recycle. Electronic devices that you no longer use bring them to e-waste recycling. Got trash from plastic bottles and cans. Separate them from other garbage so that they can come back to the market in different forms. Last but not least, compost. When waste breaks down in a landfill, it releases methane into the atmosphere. Separating compostable properly leads to the deduction in greenhouse gases. It is the easiest way to prevent global warming. I think just being mindful and reuse and reduce the number one. Carry your water bottle around. Bring a coffee cup to a cafe if you're going to buy coffee. It really does add up and it really can save putting in these small investments into things that will last you for a really long time for sure. This is Yoko Fukawa from KautiV News. Thank you for enjoying the content.