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OverviewA 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. 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? InThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Korst , Bill McKibbenPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Ten Speed Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.349kg ISBN: 9781607743484ISBN 10: 1607743485 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 26 December 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThe Zero-Waste Lifestyle walks you through the process of reducing your <br> trash in every room of the house as well as in other areas of your life, <br> from family vacations to the kids' trick-or-treat bags. This is an invaluable <br> book filled with practical, easy-to-implement tips for every lifestyle. <br> -Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight<br> <br> The Zero-Waste Lifestyle is a treasure trove of tips about how you can easily <br> reduce your impact on the earth by reducing your waste. Thank goodness <br> for this intelligent and important book--Korst shows us that we really can <br> make a difference by making simple changes in our day-to-day lives. <br> -Sophie Uliano, New York Times best-selling author of Gorgeously Green The Zero-Waste Lifestyle walks you through the process of reducing your trash in every room of the house as well as in other areas of your life, from family vacations to the kids' trick-or-treat bags. This is an invaluable book filled with practical, easy-to-implement tips for every lifestyle. -Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight The Zero-Waste Lifestyle is a treasure trove of tips about how you can easily reduce your impact on the earth by reducing your waste. Thank goodness for this intelligent and important book--Korst shows us that we really can make a difference by making simple changes in our day-to-day lives. -Sophie Uliano, New York Times best-selling author of Gorgeously Green Author InformationAMY 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |