The Zero-Waste Lifestyle Quotes

“For example, manufacturing just one gold wedding ring creates twenty tons of mining waste.”
― Amy Korst, The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less

“We already know that on average every American produces about three pounds of trash each day that is destined for the dump. But, for every can of trash I hauled to the curb, corporate-industrial manufacturing produced an additional forty to seventy cans filled with trash generated during the manufacture of my products. Our personal trash is just a drop in the bucket when compared to the trash generated in the creation of all the products we buy—everything from food to clothing to furniture.”
― Amy Korst, The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less