The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free. Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year that piles up in landfills and threatens our air and water quality. You do your part to reduce, reuse, and recycle, but is it enough? In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle, Amy Korst shows you how to lead a healthier, happier, and more sustainable life by generating less garbage. Drawing from lessons she learned during a yearlong experiment in zero-waste living, Amy outlines hundreds of easy ideas-from the simple to the radical-for consuming and throwing away less, with low-impact tips on the best ways to: • Buy eggs from a local farm instead of the grocery store • Start a worm bin for composting • Grow your own loofah sponges and mix up eco-friendly cleaning solutions • Purchase gently used items and donate them when you're finished • Shop the bulk aisle and keep reusable bags in your purse or car • Bring your own containers for take-out or restaurant leftovers By eliminating unnecessary items in every aspect of your life, these meaningful and achievable strategies will help you save time and money, support local businesses, decrease litter, reduce your toxic exposure, eat well, become more self-sufficient, and preserve the planet for future generations. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Bill McKibben

Introduction: Trash, Trash, Everywhere

Part 1: Getting Started

1. A Trashed
Planet
2. Planning to Go Waste
Free
3. Reduce and
Reuse
4.
Recycle
5. Organic Waste

Part 2: Trash-Free Challenges

6. The Zero-Waste
Kitchen
7. The Zero-Waste
Bathroom
8. The Zero-Waste
Bedroom
9. Zero-Waste
Cleaning
10. Zero-Waste
Kids
11. Zero-Waste
Travel
12. The Zero-Waste
Workplace
13. Zero-Waste Holidays and Special Occasions

Part 3: Next Steps

14. The Global Zero-Waste Movement

Epilogue

An A-to-Z Guide to Recycling (Just About) Anything

Further Reading

Bibliography

About the Author

Index 

Autoreninfo

Amy Korst, Foreword by Bill McKibben