What an inspiring effort! We are such a wasteful, throwaway society in the "developed" world. I visited Delhi in India in the 1990s, and I was really impressed by the number of people who made a living from recycling things people had thrown away.
Another thing that impressed me was the yogurt sold in small clay pots at railway stations. After eating the yogurt, the thin clay pots could be thrown away, as they would just disintegrate. So much less wasteful than plastic.