The Zero-Waste Lifestyle Live Well by Throwing Away Less

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. You don't have to be a tree hugger to benefit from zero-waste living. The average American tosses out nearly five pounds of trash every day, yet studies show the more we buy, the less happy we are. In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle,Amy Korst shows us how to have a happier, healthier, more sustainable life by sharing the lessons she learned while going waste-free for an entire year. Each chapter presents easy steps that anyone can take to create less trash: from composting and retaking reusable containers to the grocery store to burning clean organic materials; upcycling, downcycling, and recycling goods; and more.

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.

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