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
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.
“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
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