Download or read book Zero Waste for Families A Practical Guide written by Fredrika Syren and published by Bbl Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, Simple Steps to guide your family from low waste to Zero Waste for a healthier planet. Raising three active kids under the shadow of the climate crisis, Fredrika Syren and her family made a commitment to go Zero Waste. Shifting their habits gradually 10+ years ago to live more mindfully of the environment, making small-scale changes to do their part for climate change. From removing their household trash can to composting everything and growing their own food, the adventures of teaching their children sustainable consumerism in an ordinary San Diego suburb yields the practical guidebook that became Zero Waste for Families. They share steps to guide families from low waste to zero waste with simple, tips and tricks for a greener lifestyle. - Over 150 pages of practical tips for beginners and advanced zero-wasters - Tried-and-true DIY recipes for healthy sustainable meals, eco-friendly beauty, and a less-waste, healthy home - How to travel zero waste - How and why to grow your own food and compost everything - Tips for reducing waste with babies and and children, including crafts, toys and school supplies ? - How this family saved $18k/year going zero waste

Download or read book Don t Be Trashy written by Tara McKenna and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to dramatically reduce the waste you produce—and your stress levels—one sanity-saving step at a time in this accessible, practical guide from the creator of The Zero Waste Collective. “You’ll feel inspired by McKenna’s thorough and accessible approach to understanding the why and how of reducing waste.”—Julia Watkins, author of Simply Living Well Say goodbye to your bursting toiletries bag, fast fashion, and all the plastic crowding your pantry. It's time to build less trashy habits for a more sustainable and ethical life. With relatable stories, compassion, and a realistic perspective, Tara McKenna will show you how in this ultimate guide to going zero waste(ish). We're all trapped in a wasteful convenience-based cycle, but Don’t Be Trashy offers an alternative: an approach to reducing waste that emphasizes progress over perfection. McKenna guides you month by month through a year of reducing consumption, covering: • Decluttering and turning off the flow of stuff into your home • Breaking up with fast fashion and developing a capsule wardrobe • Cutting off your supply of single-use plastic in your kitchen, cleaning supplies, and bathroom • Investing in home goods that'll last for decades without breaking the bank • And more! Ultimately, it's about changing your mindset to one of minimalism and conscious consumption—a mindset that’s as good for your wallet and your well-being as it is for the planet. Don't Be Trashy will guide you to your best life—one with less waste and more joy!

Download or read book Zero Waste Home written by Bea Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for reducing waste in the home offers tools and tips for going "zero waste," discussing how to make cosmetics and cleaning supplies, pack lunches without plastic, and weed out unnecessary appliances. Shows how the author transformed her family's life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing 1 liter per year; part practical guide that gives readers tools & tips to diminish their footprint & simplify their lives. -- Publishers Description.

Download or read book Don t Be Trashy written by Tara McKenna and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to dramatically reduce the waste you produce—and your stress levels—one sanity-saving step at a time in this accessible, practical guide from the creator of The Zero Waste Collective. “You’ll feel inspired by McKenna’s thorough and accessible approach to understanding the why and how of reducing waste.”—Julia Watkins, author of Simply Living Well Say goodbye to your bursting toiletries bag, fast fashion, and all the plastic crowding your pantry. It's time to build less trashy habits for a more sustainable and ethical life. With relatable stories, compassion, and a realistic perspective, Tara McKenna will show you how in this ultimate guide to going zero waste(ish). We're all trapped in a wasteful convenience-based cycle, but Don’t Be Trashy offers an alternative: an approach to reducing waste that emphasizes progress over perfection. McKenna guides you month by month through a year of reducing consumption, covering: • Decluttering and turning off the flow of stuff into your home • Breaking up with fast fashion and developing a capsule wardrobe • Cutting off your supply of single-use plastic in your kitchen, cleaning supplies, and bathroom • Investing in home goods that'll last for decades without breaking the bank • And more! Ultimately, it's about changing your mindset to one of minimalism and conscious consumption—a mindset that’s as good for your wallet and your well-being as it is for the planet. Don't Be Trashy will guide you to your best life—one with less waste and more joy!

Download or read book Plastic Free written by Beth Terry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” —Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans, and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. In Plastic-Free, she shows you how you can too, providing personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and individual solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint. Presenting both beginner and advanced steps, Terry includes handy checklists and tables for easy reference, ways to get involved in larger community actions, and profiles of individuals—Plastic-Free Heroes—who have gone beyond personal solutions to create change on a larger scale. Fully updated for the paperback edition, Plastic-Free also includes sections on letting go of eco-guilt, strategies for coping with overwhelming problems, and ways to relate to other people who aren’t as far along on the plastic-free path. Both a practical guide and the story of a personal journey from helplessness to empowerment, Plastic-Free is a must-read for those concerned about the ongoing health and happiness of themselves, their children, and the planet.

Download or read book The Almost Zero Waste Guide written by Melanie Mannarino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut back on waste, reduce your carbon footprint, and live more sustainably with these 100 (almost) zero-waste tips In a perfect world, we would all be able to fit a year’s worth of waste in a mason jar. But for most of us​,​ doing so can be immensely intimidating or simply not feasible. But even if you can’t be perfectly zero waste, you can still have a profound impact on our environment, climate, and health by making some simple changes to your lifestyle and habits. Author Melanie Mannarino shares 100 simple tips for being less wasteful in a variety of contexts: -At Home, with advice not only for the kitchen and food, but also for cleaning and home organization -Travel, from commuting to vacations -Fashion, including finding sustainable brands and caring for your clothing -Community, helping you identify ways to make a broader impact beyond your home Beyond limiting your personal waste, learn about how you can reduce your “unseen” waste by making more eco-friendly choices, such as purchasing clothes with more sustainable fabrics and adopting a “Meatless Monday” regimen to help decrease your carbon footprint. If you’re someone who wants to reduce waste in your daily life and make a positive impact on the planet ​without​ making​​ drastic changes in your habits, then look no further. This highly accessible and practical guide will have you living a greener, more sustainable life that is (almost) zero waste in no time!

Download or read book Make Garbage Great written by Tom Szaky and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fun, pop culture exploration, two ecological entrepreneurs examine the materials we use in our daily lives, show how they impact the environment, and provide project ideas—from recycling to upcycling and more—to lessen our impact and protect our world. Jam-packed with information, more than 200 photographs and illustrations, and approximately twenty DIY projects, this engaging, graphic volume shows us how we all can cut down, reuse, and repurpose the garbage we produce. With its easy hands-on design, Garbage Is Great contains information, little known facts, compelling graphics, and colorful illustrations and photos on a variety of common household waste-stream materials: Plastics, Glass and Ceramics, Paper, Wood, Textiles, Metal, Rubber, and Organics. Tom Szaky, the founder of the award-winning nonprofit, environmental company TerraCycle, introduces each and explains what he’s learned about it in his personal life and with TerraCycle. He and Albe Zakes then provide a graphic historical timeline of each material's use in commercial goods—from how it’s manufactured to what happens when it’s throw out—an analysis of its impact on the environment now and tomorrow; suggestions for DIY projects to save it from the trash bin, and lists of helpful resources. They also include sidebars and definitions, fun and quirky facts, lists of reuse ideas, quotes, and illuminating interviews that add depth and insight. All of us have a responsibility to protect our environment. Informative and inspirational, Garbage Is Great shows us how to be creative custodians today—and for the rest of our lives.

Download or read book Zero Waste Kids written by Rob Greenfield and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects designed to get kids reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling to benefit the environment and lead more sustainable lives.

Download or read book Don t Be Trashy written by Tara McKenna and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get beyond the Mason jar and learn how to dramatically reduce the waste you produce over the course of a year—one sanity-saving step at a time—in this super-practical guide from the creator of The Zero Waste Collective. Say goodbye to your bursting toiletries bag, fast fashion, and all the plastic crowding your pantry. It's time to build less trashy habits for a more sustainable and ethical life. With relatable stories, compassion, and a realistic perspective, Tara McKenna will show you how in this ultimate guide to going zero waste(ish). We're all trapped in a wasteful convenience-based cycle, but Don’t Be Trashy offers an alternative: an approach to reducing waste that emphasizes progress over perfection. McKenna guides you month by month through a year of reducing consumption, covering: Decluttering and turning off the flow of stuff into your home Breaking up with fast fashion and developing a capsule wardrobe Cutting off your supply of single-use plastic in your kitchen, cleaning supplies, and bathroom Investing in home goods that'll last for decades without breaking the bank And more! Ultimately, it's about changing your mindset to one of minimalism and conscious consumption—a mindset that’s as good for your wallet and your well-being as it is for the planet. Don't Be Trashy will guide you to your best life—one with less waste and more joy!

Download or read book A Family Guide to Waste free Living written by Lauren Carter and published by Plum. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the ingredients to create a new normal." Costa Georgiadis, host of Gardening Australia Tackle our ever-growing waste problem. A Family Guide to Waste-free Living gives you all the information, advice, budget-friendly recipes and projects you'll need to start reducing waste in your life. Lauren and Oberon Carter make it it simple and sustainable for families to eliminate waste in the home, at work, at school and out in the world. This is a practical and inspiring resource for anyone wanting to live more sustainably. Inside you'll find: - Simple activities for the whole family. - Instructions on building waste-free kits for around the house and out and about. - A plan for creating change by advocating to government and business. - Tackle our ever-growing waste problem with all the information, advice, budget-friendly recipes and projects you'll need to start reducing waste in your life. This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Download or read book A Zero Waste Family written by Anita Vandyke and published by Apollo Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eco-luxe lifestyle champion Anita Vandyke comes a practical and beautifully illustrated, fresh, and fun guide to sustainably reduce your family’s waste by 80 percent in just thirty days! Trying to live a zero-waste life while simultaneously raising a family can feel almost impossible, but Anita Vandyke, the popular Instagrammer and best-selling author of A Zero Waste Life, is here to help. A Zero Waste Family is an insightful thirty-day guide brimming with the lessons Anita learned during her first year navigating motherhood, while still trying to reduce her waste. Here she shares innovative ideas about how families can work together to decrease their household waste and in the process make their lives easier, richer, and more purposeful, and less full of clutter and distractions. As parents we are constantly juggling the needs of children, work, chores, and money. This book is not designed to add to the guilt that we already feel; it's about showing how, by applying zero-waste and minimalist principles, being an eco-parent doesn’t have to be difficult. By making small changes as a family, we can make a big difference to our world for our children and future generations.

Download or read book An Almost Zero Waste Life written by Megean Weldon and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, mindful, and completely realistic journey to a sustainable living lifestyle. Find tips, strategies, recipes, and DIY projects for reducing waste in this approachable, beautifully designed and illustrated guide. What is zero waste living? Although the practice has been around for generations out of necessity, it is making a comeback as concerns grow about the fate of our environment. To put it simply: it is attempting to send no waste to landfills. Although you may have read or heard about “zero waste,” “sustainable,” or “green” living, the concept can sometimes seem too complicated, the author’s tone a bit self-righteous, or riddled with advice geared for people with 5 acres of land in the country with dreams of raising livestock and homesteading. This is not that book. Can a “regular” person do this? Absolutely! Zero waste isn’t necessarily about zero, but more about changing or altering the way we see the world around us, how we consume, and how we think about waste. It’s about making better choices when we can, and working to reduce our overall impact by reducing the amount of packaging and single-use plastics we bring into our life. Focusing on the positive, An Almost Zero Waste Life presents simple ways to reduce waste in every aspect of your life: Cleaning: Recipes for natural cleaners and how to ditch paper towels for good. Meal plans: Weekly menus and recipes for zero waste meals that use bulk pantry staples. Shopping: How to shop zero waste at big chain stores and ways to reduce food packaging. Bathroom: Sustainable beauty routine. Recycling: Ingenious ways to repurpose old clothing and how to recycle small metals, like razor blades. Compost: The basics of composting. And much more! An Almost Zero Waste Life will change the way you see the world around you, how you consume, and how you think about waste for a healthier planet and happier you.

Download or read book Zero Waste Kids written by Robin Greenfield and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by internationally acclaimed environmental activist, humanitarian, and adventurer Rob Greenfield, Zero Waste Kids fun and easy illustrated projects and activities that will help your family reduce, reuse, and recycle at home, at school, and in your community. While most kids probably aren’t going to grow all their own food for a year like Rob has, Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects for growing some of your own food, with advice and encouragement for why doing so is important. And, instead of wearing all their trash for a week like Rob did, with Zero Waste Kids, they’ll learn how to audit their trash, to really understand how much waste they’re personally contributing to the earth’s landfills. Zero Waste Kids helps children to understand the world they live in and inspire them to start living in a more sustainable way. Of all the environmental problems we face, “trash” is one that is easiest to understand because it is very visual, whereas many other problems are more abstract. Zero-waste isn’t the solution to the world’s problems, but a very good place to start. Zero-Waste projects include: Conduct a household trash audit to discover who throws away what and why. Swap disposable shopping bags and lunch boxes for reusable, zero-waste options. Compost your food scraps and grow your own food. Make natural-dye play dough, leaf prints, and more. Zero Waste Kids is every kid’s go-to guide for making a difference. This book is printed on FSC-certified paper using soy inks. And, leading by example, Rob is donating all of his proceeds from the book to environmental nonprofit organizations. Activities contributed by April Hepokoski, Zion Lights, Heidi Rose, Alyssa Binns Gunderson, and Michelle Cassar.

Download or read book Zero Waste Secrets written by Honest Miracle and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What good is all of that greed the huge corporations have for money over our health and planet with single use chemical ridden products designed to break, when there's no air left for us to breathe because we've polluted it?" If you're reading this book you're probably keen on saving our beautiful planet from waste, toxins and plastic pollution. You might have also experienced what I call "zero waste overwhelm" where you want to do everything to fight climate change, heal the planet and tell everyone about it to get them involved too! That's brilliant, but we all have our limits, so don't push yourself to do too much at once. I like to push myself just passed my limit then wait there for a little while before trying to get to the next level because if we burnout we can't help anyone. The top excuse I've heard from people as to why they don't go greener or try zero waste is that they can't be perfect like the social media influencers who fit all of their years rubbish into one jar. We don't have to be that extreme! In fact, how do we know they actually did fit all of their years rubbish into one jar?! There's a thought... So, I created this book as a realistic guide to zero waste, maybe that's not the best name, maybe it should be called conscious living, or less waste, because in all honesty, it's impossible to have ZERO waste. My hope is that you will use this guide to ease your way into zero waste/less waste/conscious living, or you can use it to add to your current eco knowledge. Don't forget to share it with family and friends, so that we can all do our bit to help the planet and to also help our families and ourselves. Because we're all in this together!

Download or read book The Zero Waste Lifestyle written by Amy Korst and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Life Without Plastic written by Jay Sinha and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the birth of their son, Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon set out on a journey to eliminate plastic baby bottles as the Canadian government banned BPA. When they found it was difficult to procure glass baby bottles, Jay and Chantal made it their mission to not only find glass and metal replacements for plastic, but to make those products accessible to the public as well. Printed on wood-free FSC (sustainable certified) paper and with BPA-free ink, Life Without Plastic strives to create more awareness on the issue of BPA, polycarbonates and other single-use plastics, and provides readers with safe, reusable and affordable alternatives. While plastic has its uses in technology, medical and some products around the home, certain single-use plastics release chemicals when put in contact with food and water. These disposable plastics are also found in produce and cleaning products. Jay and Chantal show readers how to analyze their personal plastic use, find alternatives and create easy replacements in this step-by-step guide. Get your family healthier, spread consciousness and create positive reflection on you for helping the environment by taking action.

Download or read book Zero Waste Schools written by Sarah Albee and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2025-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s zero time to waste! Bestselling author Sarah Albee teams up with GrowNYC to share strategies to produce zero waste in this resource-packed activist handbook. New York City has the largest school system in the United States, with over one million enrolled in its public schools. That’s a lot of students—and a lot of trash. Bestselling nonfiction author Sarah Albee teams up with GrowNYC, the largest environmental organization in NYC, with the actionable goal of helping city schools achieve zero waste by 2030 through initiatives like Plastic Free Lunch Day—and more! This comprehensive sustainability handbook is both a crash-course in how recycling works and a step-by-step activist’s guide to creating a greener future on an individual and community level. Uncover the messy history of trash and recycling in NYC and see, step-by-step, where trash goes when we throw it “away” today. Discover practical, kid-friendly solutions to reduce classroom waste, from swap events, to recycling inspections, to food sharing tables, and more! Team up with educators and administrators with “Teacher Tips,” including hands-on environmental experiments that require few supplies for cost-effectiveness and eco-friendliness. Learn about the types of composting and which might be most effective for your community. Get hands-on with practical instructions on how to start a Green Team—a school-wide organization dedicated to reducing waste—and ways to monitor your school’s progress in getting to Zero Waste. Access ready-made reproduceables such as recycling inspection rating cards, Green Team applications. . . everything you need! Sarah Albee’s nonfiction middle grade educates, engages, and empowers activists to show that no matter who we are—a student, a teacher; an individual, a community—we’re all on the same team: the Green Team! A Books for a Better Earth™ Title The Books for a Better Earth™ collection is designed to inspire young people to become active, knowledgeable participants in caring for the planet they live on. Focusing on solutions to climate change challenges, the collection looks at how scientists, activists, and young leaders are working to safeguard Earth’s future.