101 Ways to Go Zero Waste Kindle Edition

Book has alot of great information. I'm sure she has nothing to do with HOW her books come but I found it ironic that it came in a plastic package. I will find a use for it but am disappointed that in didn't come in paper or a box that I could just compost.

Have been low-waste for a while now. I didn't think I 'needed' this book on my journey to eliminate trash in my life. I have followed Kathryn's blog for a long time and bought it to support her, anyway! It is chocked full with info and facts that I didn't know. I'm so glad I purchased. This is a fabulous book for anyone looking to eliminate waste in their lives! Also check our her going zero waste blog. It's pretty fabulous!

I’ve been a long time blog reader but I read this book cover and was pleasantly surprised about how much I still learned. I love that Kathryn is realistic and includes personal sustainability because not everyone is willing to scratch cook every meal and that is okay. Great book for beginners who want to get started and great DYI resource for more experienced Zero wasters. To me it was worth purchasing to have on hand as a quick reference even though I could have gotten it at a library. Planning on lending out to all my friends!

Some of the suggestions in this book will be hard for us to follow. Others are no brainers making me ask myself why I hadn't already begun practicing them. At any rate, this certainly motivates me to move closer and closer to zero waste and one look at the landfills and waste in our oceans makes it imperative, we feel, to move steadily in that direction.

Kellogg's book has changed my life...for the better! I discovered her after purchasing my Pela phone case. I started reading her linked blogs, and now her videos and book are my manual to a healthier and wealthier life! I say wealthier because along with using and reusing safer and more sustainable products and materials, I have been saving a lot of money! She provides tips for so many things for our daily lives that are so easy and affordable. Borrow novels from the library; however, purchasing this book will be an investment!

I have followed Kathryn on Instagram for awhile and always pick up great tips. But this book is even better - it’s really “normal,” anyone can choose a handful of these 101 places to focus and get started. The tips feel gentle and user-friendly. I’m starting with bathroom products!I like this book even more than I expected to and look forward to gifting it to loved ones!

First of all, I love that this book is in paperback, as that makes it instantly recyclable (which I would never do cos it's such a good read, but hey), it's portable, chock full of actionable content and written in a conversational, friendly voice of someone who does all that she suggests herself. I now keep this book among my cookbooks, as it is something I reach for again and again for shopping tips, clothes cleaning tricks, and ideas to come back to that I have not yet tried myself (making my own deoderant...not there yet). Kellogg's book is already something that is a staple in my resource library, I'm glad she put so much of her website into this helpful manual as I am so much more likely to reach for this book that jump on the computer.

I love this book I bought it about a year and a half ago and I have to say as well as I thought I was cutting down on my waist I learned a lot of new ways to implement very easy caring things for our planet. In the last year with the help of this book I have read Duste my weekly trash from one or two trash cans or four bags to approximately a quarter to a half of a bag of garbage. For lots of reasons this is happened little steps along the way improving each area of my life. Feels really good and it feels nice to be helping Mother earth who has a really supported us throughout the time. It is now our time to get back. As we are now approaching a new world with this coronavirus I felt it was very important to write about this little book that can really help bring things into perspective and we must still continue to take care of mother Earth. More than ever we need to bring our level of waist down.

This was a really interesting and thorough book about how to enter the zero waste movement. Understandably it focuses on her experience in the U.S. but many of these tips are not applicable for Europe

Many great ideas

Gift for eco friend. Loved it.

-------- THE CONCEPT / THE BOOK'S APPEAL TO READERS: --------I have recently decided to go Zero Waste after learning that only 9% of plastics produced worldwide since the 50s have ever been recycled, and the rest goes to landfill. Really, the only things that can be recycled with ease are steel, aluminium, and glass--and even then, you have to make sure everything is clean. Additionally, microplastics are now so ubiquitous that they have been found in rain and in the glaciers of the Alps. Plastics are also known to contain parabens and Bisephenol A (BPA) which disrupt the endocrine (hormonal) system in humans and can cause cancer. I decided the easiest way to improve my physical health (and mental health, because constantly contemplating all of my waste was giving me anxiety) as well as help the planet was to strive toward zero-waste living.-------- THE BOOK: --------+ This book is exceptionally accessible for anyone who is beginning or in the midst of their journey to zero waste. It is divided up into 101 tips, which typically are only a paragraph or two long, so the information is very "bite-sized." I've managed to read almost half of the book in a couple of hours.+ Kellogg does an amazing job at letting you know how to reduce your waste production without necessarily going out and investing in fancy zero-waste products; she describes zero-waste living as akin to depression-era living when people had to reduce and reuse almost everything because there were limited resources. The beginning of the book toutes the benefits of minimalism, of being comfortable with what you have and not feeling the need to buy more. (Indeed, it is the belief of myself and many other eco-conscious individuals that capitalism and mindless consumerism are the driving forces behind the climate crisis we are seeing today.)+ Kellogg offers lots of helpful advice on living sustainably and where/what you can buy if you want to remove certain items from your life. At no point does it ever seem like she is "talking down" to the reader or shaming them for their lack of waste-awareness (she constantly brings up her past wastefulness before she became a zero-waste individual) and this is one of the key selling points of the book, in my opinion.+ For people who are creative and want to make their own zero-waste beauty products, Kellogg provides recipes for natural and zero-waste versions of deodorant, shampoo, dry shampoo, and moisturiser, to name a few.- One downside to this book is its lack of resources/bibliography. Kellogg provides lots of fascinating facts (some of which I already personally knew), but she does not cite her sources, which will promote scepticism amongst more cynical readers.- Another downside is that Ms. Kellogg is speaking from a place of privilege; going zero-waste can be more expensive than buying things in packaging (she makes the argument that it's not), which I have found to be true i.e. refilling laundry detergent, shampoo, etc. at some of the zero-waste stores in Toronto. I can afford this now: 3 years ago? Not at all.

Awesome book about environmentally sustainable living!I have an extreme chemical and environmental sensitivity which means I have to be intensely careful about exposing myself to anything. New products are problematic because of the chemicals and synthetic materials used to create most them. They will off-gas some of the toxic elements into the air, which makes me very ill.However, when I received my copy of 101 Ways to go Zero Waste, it had almost zero toxic smell or chemical off-gassing! It's such a treat to be able to read a new book the same day it arrives!I also really applaud Kathryn Kellogg for putting in the work to use environmentally friendly materials. We need to be printing most-if not all new books this way!