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DISPOSABLE: One woman’s twenty-year journey toward zero-waste

Ruba Bender has been trying to achieve a zero-waste lifestyle ever since she lived through the 1999 earthquake in Turkey. After seeing so much destruction, she was inspired to start making small changes in her own daily life. Yavuz Yilmazoglu, Zixun Wang, David Bogi, and Yike Cai created this report.
Audio by Yavuz Yilmazoglu Yike Cai Zixun Wang David Bogi
 

This report was created for the Science Gallery Melbourne’s DISPOSABLE exhibition with support from All The Best radio.

Categories DISPOSABLE
Date published August 8, 2019
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