Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

“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