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Cool Things: Zero Waste – This Family Generates Only 1 Quart of Trash a Year
Bea Johnson sees through you. She sees through the hemp shopping tote where you slipped that plastic bag of fair-trade bananas, BPA/phthalate-free container of kombucha and organic Gorilla Munch that’s packaged in a bag inside a box. Johnson sees, as you get into your new electric Leaf, that you’re trying to live more sustainably but maybe you could use a little guidance. She’s just the one to offer it.
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The Mill Valley resident, her husband, Scott, and their sons Max and Léo generate just one quart of trash a year. Johnson, who details her family’s efforts to live more sustainably in the popular blog www.zerowastehome.blogspot.com and recently released book of the same name ($17; Scribner) lives by the five R’s: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rot – in that order. “Don’t take what you don’t need, even if it’s free,” she told Chronicle contributor Anh-Minh Le.
To learn more about how she and her family cut their consumption and reduced spending by 40 percent, go to bit.ly/11tqsCw. For a taste of the Zero Waste lifestyle, check out Johnson’s quick and easy tips. (Oh, and Johnson also sees you rolling your eyes at No. 6: “This is what I do,” she told The Chronicle. “If it works for you, too, great. If not, that’s fine. Figure out a system that works for you.”)
Simple ways to go trash-free
Bea Johnson’s recently released book, “Zero Waste Home” ($17; Scribner), shares her experiences, as well as the expertise she has developed in attempting to create a trash-free household. Here are some simple yet effective ideas she and her family have implemented:
1. Shop in bulk and bring cloth bags, mesh bags, glass jars and bottles to the store. They can hold different types of foods – such as grains, fruit, meat and olive oil. Bring totes, too, to carry all of your groceries home in.
2. Many beauty and bath products, including liquid soap and lotions, can also be purchased without packaging and some can be homemade. In Johnson’s case, she makes her own tooth powder (instead of toothpaste) and bronzer; the recipes are included in her book.
3. When it comes to housekeeping, again, Johnson goes the homemade route. She uses a vinegar mixture in lieu of a range of other cleaning products.
4. In the kitchen, she reduces food waste by employing various tricks, including freezing
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Portland Recycling Guru; Fills One Can of Trash in 16 Months
Taking 16 months to fill one 35-gallon can with trash is the best the Shelleys have done so far in reducing their waste.
They wrote no blog chronicling a year of sudden, anti-garbage inspiration with panicked Styrofoam-meat-tray-crinkly-cereal-box-liner moments. Instead, their effort to cut back on waste started slowly more than 20 years ago with the question: Where is “away” when something is thrown away?
That led to habits Jon Shelley says now come as naturally as breathing, making their feat not much trouble at all. But how does someone else get to that point?
A recycling information specialist at Metro, Betty Shelley heard that question enough she decided to teach a three-part class on reducing waste.
In “Less is more: Getting to one can of garbage a year,” she details her many habits and explains how, most importantly, she carefully considers what she brings home, asking, Where will it go when it’s used up, served its purpose or breaks?
Because while recycling matters, reducing consumption reigns.
Read more at: http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2013/02/16_months_one_can_of_trash.html
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