You are looking for the best Zero Waste Apps? Then in this article I would like to introduce you to the best apps for plastic-free living, zero waste and the sharing economy, which you can use to easily produce less waste. Let's go!
The 12 Best Zero Waste Apps
A good zero waste app can also indirectly help to avoid waste and does not have to be directly recognizable as a zero waste app. A good zero waste app can also be from the sharing economy (borrowing things) or deal with the topic of Plastic waste in the environment keep busy. All of these zero waste apps ensure that we can avoid waste. I have picked out my top 12 zero waste apps for you here:
TOO GOOD TOO GO APP
Too Good To Go is one of the zero waste apps with which you canReduce food waste can. Today, more than a third of all food produced is thrown away, even though it still has a shelf life or even though there is plenty of it.Tips for extending the shelf life of foodexists. With Too Good Too Go, you have a zero waste app where participating stores offer their food and meals for free or for a low price before they are thrown away. Simply select, pick up and enjoy. It's cheap, tasty and helps to reduce food waste. The Too Good To Go app is available in both the AppStore and the Google PlayStore.
READLY APP
Have you ever realized how much waste you produce with magazines? Readly is one of many zero waste apps in this sense, as you can read the best magazines and journals from all over the world in digital form. Digital is the keyword - because this way you can save paper andAvoid plastic waste. With the Readly app, you can read your favorite magazines online and offline on all your devices. Less waste, all your magazines with you everywhere and more space in your pocket. A real advantage of digitalization. The Readly zero waste app is also available for iOS and Android smartphones.
REBUY APP
I got the book from JulianVegan in Top Form by Brendon Brazier* as a gift. He sent me the book via reBuy. The Zero Waste app is there so that you can sell and buy used items quickly and easily. Especially with books, it's unnecessary for everyone to buy the book new. So why not simply buy the book second-hand and offer it for sale again after reading it? That way, everyone involved canSave money and material costs. For me, reBuy really is one of the best zero waste apps for these reasons. You can download the reBuy app from the AppStore and the Google PlayStore. By the way: you can not only sell and buy books there, but also many other used and inexpensive items such as laptops, video games and movies.
REFILL APP
Every year, a whole 30 billionPlastic bottles with water sold. Only a few are recycled and end up in the trash - which ends up back in the sea or in a landfill site. The price of retail water can be up to 2000 times higher than tap water. For comparison: Would you buy an apple that costs 500 euros? Probably not. Luckily, there's the Tap Refill Station app, which makes it easy to find out where you can refill your water bottle with tap water in your area. In Bristol, the city where the app was created, there are as many as 200 refill stations. But the app is now also quite widespread in Germany, so you can even find refill stations in smaller towns. A great zero waste app that helps you save on plastic bottles. You can also see which stores allow you to refill water by the stickers that can be attached to the door of the store. Tap Refill Station is one of the best zero waste apps, as you can save a lot of waste by replacing plastic bottles.
CLOTHES CIRCLE APP
How many items of clothing do you have in your wardrobe? What's at the bottom? Probably shirts and pants that you haven't worn for a long time. Kleiderkreisel is one of the zero waste apps where you can sell used fashion that you no longer wear easily and free of charge. You can save so much money with Kleiderkreisel, minimalist living and raw materials for the production and transportation of new fashion. Second-hand fashion is more in demand than ever and is good for the environment and your wallet. The zero waste app from Kleiderkreisel is available for Android and iOS smartphones.
CODECHECK APP
CodeCheck is a little more difficult to classify as a zero waste app, but as it helps you to avoid microplastics and the waste of valuable raw materials, I would like to include it. With the CodeCheck app, you simply scan the barcode of any product in the supermarket and get a direct evaluation of the ingredients. Contains for example Cosmetics microplastics or palm oil, this will be displayed directly as harmful to health or the environment. This helps you to keep track of the product ingredients in the jungle of technical terms. You can also find out whether the product is vegan or gluten-free and whether it contains parabens or too much sugar. CodeCheck also gives you direct suggestions for healthy and environmentally friendly alternatives. In the article CodeCheck AppI conducted an interview with the people responsible for the app and explained the CodeCheck zero waste app in more detail.
NEBENAN.DE APP
Zero waste apps such as Nebenan.de help to bring neighbors closer together again and share leftover food or household appliances and tools. The app is a rapidly growing neighborhood network in which neighbors help neighbors and which functions like a local marketplace. If Mr. Meyer has a drill, he indicates this in his profile. Others can then borrow Mr. Meyer's drill instead of buying their own. This saves raw materials, packaging waste and a lot of money, all in the spirit of the Zero Waste Lifestyle. This is because such appliances are often only used for one application or for a short period of time. The Zero Waste App Nebenan.de brings neighbors together again. You can download the app from the AppStore and Google PlayStore.
SHPOCK APP
The Shpock app works in exactly the same way as the Kleiderkreisel app, except that in addition tosustainable clothingaccessories and make-up and much more. You can find everything here that you can also find at the flea market on Sundays. Bicycles, books, DVDs - it's all here. It only takes about 30 seconds to upload the product you want to sell. You can find the products you are looking for just as quickly. All you have to do is enter the name of the product in the search field. The products are then automatically listed according to distance from your home. Shpock has really caught on quite well in Germany and you can find all sorts of things you were looking for. I can really recommend this zero waste app to everyone.
REXQ CLUB APP
Like Too Good To Go, ResQ Club is one of many good zero waste apps that reduce food waste and are very much in the spirit of the Food Sharingwork. By using the app to quickly order discounted, delicious food that would otherwise be thrown away, you save time and money and do something good for the environment. Restaurants, cafés, bakeries etc. can register in the app and offer surplus food at a low price. When you order, you are told the exact pick-up time and you simply pay in the app. I'm a real fan of these zero waste apps against food waste because you can order things that you wouldn't otherwise have ordered. As well as saving food, you also ensure that less food is wasted from disposable packaging. Plastic waste in the environment comes.
EBAY CLASSIFIEDS APP
You read that right! Of course, eBay classifieds is also one of the zero waste apps that you can use to avoid plastic waste and reuse things in the long term. This saves raw materials! The eBay classifieds app offers you the opportunity to sell things you no longer need throughout Germany and locally. For example, before you send a broken cell phone to the Electronic scrap you can still sell it on eBay classifieds and make a handyman happy. You can also quickly find things like furniture, cameras and other items in your area. As you can set the prices in the app yourself, you often have a lot of room for negotiation with the offers, depending on demand. The app is of course available in both the Apple AppStore and the Google PlayStore.
PINTEREST APP
Why do I count Pinterest as a zero waste app? It's simple: with the Pinterest app, just like in many other social media, you can share projects and experiences of your zero waste lifestyle and be inspired by like-minded people. Everyone learns from others in the community. On social media, this doesn't just apply to the topic of zero waste, but also to all other areas of life. Pinterest is an inspiring ideas platform where you can, for example, find waste-avoiding instructions from a Do It Yourself Blog or the best tips for Avoiding waste on the plane can share. I use the app every day to get my daily dose of inspiration.
REPLACE PLASTIC APP
I'm really excited about the Replace Plastic app because it gives consumers a direct voice and helps them to contact the manufacturer directly. If you find a product on the supermarket shelf that is unnecessarily packaged in plastic, you can scan it in the app and give the manufacturer direct feedback. This is particularly important because manufacturers are often so profit-driven and don't even notice developments such as the zero waste lifestyle. The more people do this, the faster the manufacturer will avoid unnecessary plastic packaging. This Zero Waste App is developed by the North German association Coast against plastic programmed. In the article Replace Plastic - Rebuke manufactureryou can find out more about the app in the interview with founder Jennifer Timrott. You can download it on both iOS smartphones and Android smartphones.
THE BEST APPS FOR LESS WASTE!
There are so many other good zero waste apps, but these are my top 10 for now. It doesn't matter whether the apps are directly or indirectly related to the zero waste lifestyle. The important thing is that we produce less waste as a result. Do you have any questions or suggestions? What other zero waste apps can you think of? In any case, I look forward to your comments under this post.
Stay clean,
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