Approaching Zero Garbage: Environmental Stewardship and Conservation of Resources: A practical guide with simple steps that you can take to reduce your garbage footprint

by David Erickson

We all produce garbage every day with almost everything we buy - around 4 pounds of garbage per day per person. What do we do with all of that? Most of it goes to the landfill even in this day of enlightenment and awareness of alternatives. We all need to become better stewards of the environment and learn how to conserve the precious resources of this planet. This book provides a practical guide with simple steps that you can take to reduce your garbage footprint. We talk about the magnitude of the problem and the environmental reasons to start taking steps to reduce our garbage. We show how to redirect items away from the garbage stream and into the different paths of recycling, composting, and incineration.We also discuss selective shopping to reduce waste and finding ways to not use hazardous and toxic substances. We discuss manufacturing with recycling in mind.We talk about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and why it is there and what we can do about it. We describe in detail the state of the art landfill in Roosevelt WashingtonOur goal is to motivate individual consumers to be more intentional about moving things out of the waste stream and into recycling, composting, incinerating, or simply pre-cycling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723816612
• ISBN13: 9781723816611
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"