Korst A. The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less

Ten Speed Press, 2012. — 272 р.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.
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.DedicationForeword by Bill McKibben
Introduction: Trash, Trash, Everywhere
Getting started
A Trashed Planet
Planning to Go Waste Free
Reduce and Reuse
Recycle
Organic Waste
Trash-free challenges
The Zero-Waste Kitchen
The Zero-Waste Bathroom
The Zero-Waste Bedroom
Zero-Waste Cleaning
Zero-Waste Kids
Zero-Waste Travel
The Zero-Waste Workplace
Zero-Waste Holidays and Special Occasions
Next steps
The Global Zero-Waste Movement
Epilogue
An A-to-Z Guide to Recycling (Just About) Anything
Further ReadingAbout the Author