Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

By Eve O. Schaub

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1510774637
• ISBN13: 9781510774636
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

I want everyone to read this book.

I checked this book out at my local library and have been reading it & taking notes. I can’t stop talking about the issues in it and my next step is to become an activist to help cut down on our society’s overuse of plastic.