About this nonfiction
Year of No Garbage : Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste : a Memoir by Eve O. Schaub is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
"Eves brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the 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. Andas it turns outduring 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 arent flushable and compostables arent 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 youve ever thought twice about that plastic straw in your drink, youre gonna want to read this book .
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eve O. Schaub
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781510774636
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, The Environment, Stem