Reader\'s Digest Australia - 05.2019

A

s a student living in a

share house, Sabrina

Chakori could see the

simple solution to a

problem: in order to reduce waste

and create a positive impact on our

environment perhaps we should try

sharing the assets we have.

When she arrived in Brisbane

from Switzerland four years ago,

Sabrina had nothing with her but a

suitcase full of clothes and a laptop.

To start settling in, she asked friends

if she could borrow the things she

needed. Over time, as she started

to accumulate her own possessions,

of Sharing

she would lend to her friends in re-

turn.

Already a passionate and long-

time advocate for sustainability,

Sabrina was researching her PhD

into how eliminating food packag-

ing can influence food manufacture

and in turn social behaviour.

Putting two and two together,

Sabrina found herself contemplating

the thought:if the current economic

system drives the manufacture of so

many products which end up as land-

fill, what may be needed is a new kind

of economy for creating a new kind of

positive prosperity.

EVERYDAY HEROES

26 | May• 2019

BY ELEANOR CANT

The Power

Imagine a library where you borrow

tools, appliances and sports gear