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Year of No Garbage

Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

by Eve O. Schaub
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"Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July
Year of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.
In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic.
In the process, Schaub learns some startling things: that modern recycling is broken, and single stream recycling is a lie. That flushable wipes aren't flushable and compostables aren't compostable. That plastic drives climate change, fosters racism, and is poisoning the environment and our bodies at alarming rates, as microplastics are being found everywhere, from the top of Mount Everest to the placenta of unborn babies.
If you've ever thought twice about that plastic straw in your drink, you're gonna want to read this book.

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  • Release date

    April 18, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781510775404

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      • ISBN: 9781510775404
      • File size: 800 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      March 15, 2023
      January 2020 saw author Schaub (Year of No Clutter, 2017) embark on a new, daunting journey--she vowed not to generate any garbage for an entire year. Living completely garbage free sounds like a pipe dream, the realities of which Schaub tackles head-on over the course of the year. The pandemic complicates things, with more packaging, online shipments, and necessary medical waste to handle. Part exploration of consumerism, part science side of garbage, and part memoir, this is an excellent look at one family's journey toward going zero garbage. Everything from the chemistry of various "recyclable" plastics to where your recycling actually goes is explored. Tips and tricks on living garbage free are laid out alongside very honest admissions of personal pitfalls, surprises learned, and perhaps most importantly of all, the ways society is built around disposability, and just how difficult it is to go zero garbage when everything around you is built to be used once and then thrown away. Perfect for readers of memoir and science as well as those interested in the cross section of consumerism and going green.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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