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Year of No Garbage

by Hillary Huber
Eve O. Schaub
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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, and 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 wanna read this book.

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    April 18, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781666632408
      • File size: 273419 KB
      • Duration: 09:29:37

  • Languages

    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Eve Schaub chronicles her family's ambitious undertaking to eliminate household waste for a year, which was made even more difficult by the Covid pandemic. Hillary Huber's tone of bemused humor matches the author's witty rendition of the many sacrifices her family made on their improbable journey to zero waste. The family sought out alternatives to many common products and processes, such as reusable toilet paper, menstrual products, toothpaste tubes, and packaging. Huber narrates with both astonishment and down-to-earth humor the author's discovery of the omnipresence of plastics and the near impossibility of eliminating it from one's life, including inside our very bodies. Also addressed is the false comfort of recycling programs that promise solutions but do not deliver. S.E.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.