Year of No Garbage Quotes

“I’d never encountered an actual transfer station before.”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

“purchase some intended-for-disposal packaging if we were going to remain fed, at least for a little while.”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

“instead of throwing it outside I brought the bit of gravel up to my office and placed it on a little wooden box as a pedestal on my desk, to remind myself that just because our culture accepts something, doesn’t mean it makes any sense.”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

“what on earth were we going to do with this?”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

“What about (insert random trash item here)?”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste