Year of No Garbage

Name: Year of No Garbage
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Eve O. Schaub
ISBN: 9781666632408

Author: Eve O. Schaub

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 04/18/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, House & Home, Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Technology & Engineering, Environmental

Synopsis

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 and, as it turns out, during 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 aren’t flushable and compostables aren’t compostable, and 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 you’ve ever thought twice about that plastic straw in your drink, you’re gonna wanna read this book.

About Hillary Huber

"Hillary has recorded close to 700 audiobooks spanning many genres. She is a multiple Audie Award finalist, multiple Earphone Award winner, Voice Arts Awards winner and one of Audiofile Magazine's best voices. Hillary has a BA in English Literature and is a voracious reader and listener. Likes: yoga, hip hop dancing, baking sourdough, bourbon. Dislikes: liver. Raised in conservative Connecticut and hippy Hawaii, Hillary now splits her time between Santa Monica and New York. Most of that time is in a 4x4 padded room. Er...booth. Her superpower is reciting the alphabet backwards. Created with WordToHTML.net trial."

About Eve O. Schaub

Eve O. Schaub is an internationally published author and speaker. The author of Year of No Sugar and Year of No Clutter, she has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, USA Today, and The Huffington Post, among others. She lives in Vermont with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cheryl on October 15, 2024

Short version - Plastic is the devil and it is everywhere. Scary.......more

Goodreads review by Bookish on May 07, 2023

4 stars Moral of the story is do your research. Dont trust those big orgs. Consume less. Be mindful.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 18, 2023

I really liked Schaub's previous books, Year of No Sugar and Year of No Clutter, so I was excited to see a new "year of" book from her. And while Schaub is a great writer and obviously very dedicated to her causes, this was a downer of a book to read. Of course Schaub starts out the Year of No Garba......more

Goodreads review by Translator on December 10, 2022

Amazing read. Really well researched, and the author ultimately reaches the painful conclusion that striving for a year of not contributing a single ounce to a landfill out of the blue is a bit of a folly, that it takes a good deal of prep to get to that step - but that the effort put in and the roa......more

Goodreads review by Celine on May 13, 2023

This book was good! Very informative. I just feel like it was more interesting at first, and later everything started to feel like the same. I was kind of hard to get through but I also have trouble reading these types of books 😂😅......more

Quotes

"Hillary Huber’s tone of bemused humor matches the author's witty rendition of the many sacrifices her family made on their improbable journey to zero waste. Huber narrates with both astonishment and down-to-earth humor the author's discovery of the omnipresence of plastics and the near impossibility of eliminating it from one's life, including inside our very bodies." - Audiofile Magazine