Eve Schaub and her family spent a year not throwing away their garbage. Here's how they did it.
Something about trash has always bothered me. The idea that somewhere out there was a pile of all the stuff I had discarded, sitting there,So one day I decided to try it: a year of no garbage.
As January approached, I tried to imagine what living without garbage would really look like. Would we be living like Oscar the Grouch? Would it turn into an episode fromWell, how hard could it be? I thought. All we have to do is buy only materials that can be put into recycling.
Sometimes there was desperation. I may or may not have flushed used staples down the toilet. My younger daughter Ilsa made her friends take their candy wrappers home with them. Those little absorbent pads hiding underneath your chicken or steak? My older daughter Greta called them the"most revolting thing you could get stuck with, ever."
I started making my own cleaning products. I mended pantyhose, rather than ditch them and buy new ones. I tried out an array of zero-waste products, from toothpaste tablets to bidet attachments. I posted on online message boards: did anyone want my collection of plastic bottle caps? Sooner or later, someone always did.
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