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The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

Live Well by Throwing Away Less

Live Well by Throwing Away Less

By Amy Korst
Foreword by Bill McKibben

By Amy Korst
Foreword by Bill McKibben

By Amy Korst
Foreword by Bill McKibben

By Amy Korst
Foreword by Bill McKibben

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Dec 26, 2012 | ISBN 9781607743484

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    About The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

    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.

    About The Zero-Waste Lifestyle

    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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Home & Garden | Science

    Paperback | $16.99
    Published by Ten Speed Press
    Dec 26, 2012 | 272 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9781607743484

    Category: Home & Garden | Science

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Ten Speed Press
    Dec 26, 2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781607743491

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    Praise

    “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

    Table Of Contents

    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

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