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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
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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.
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