Zero Waste–One Woman’s Efforts to Create a Cleaner World

Eve Schaub and her family went from 96 gallons of trash per week to a mere nine—will you accept the challenge?

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Editor’s Note:

When author Eve Schaub set out on her latest of numerous projects—this time of going zero waste—she had no idea that this would be her most challenging one to date. Ms. Schaub’s children were no strangers to their mother’s odd experiments, having taken part in a year without sugar and a year of no clutter. However, becoming zero waste proved to be incredibly difficult while living in a contemporary society.