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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. AMY KORST is a teacher and blogger who launched www.greengarbageproject.com along with her husband to chronicle their experiment in living a zero-waste lifestyle. She has been featured on CNN and in USA Today and the Guardian, among others. Amy has a Master Recycler certificate and is a frequent speaker for local environmental organizations. She lives in Pacific City, Oregon. 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
