BK 75: (Oct 1, 2024): Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

Our Oct 1st meeting we will be discussing the book Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub (Apr 18, 2023). With 320 reading pages it is approximately 11 pages a day.  

Check out the Bio, links and videos below: 

""Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July


Year of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.

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. 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 want to read this book."

Here are some videos to start with...







The Incredible Shrinking Woman:
Frontline Plastic Wars
Bill Moyers Trade Secrets
Coca Cola's Plastic Promises


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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* Overall Impressions

* 10 Stats pVII

* RIC Codes

* Various Websites, Products, books

* Using Comics and Maps for Wrapping Paper

* Sustainable Feminine Products

* Trex using Plastic Bags & Films

* Blueland

* Bar Soap/Shampoo...various companies LUSH 

* Cartons

* Meat Safety, past Mom & Pop grocery not far from where you lived & you bought meat for that day
   so packaging in paper ok. 

* Great Pacific Garbage Patch 

* Plastic in Blood, Lunch, Placenta & Breast Milk & causing cancer, inflammation

* Coextruded products

* Stats on PFA in blood & Replacements just as toxic..."Whack A Mole"...You can watch the movie       
   Dark Waters with Mark Ruffalo & read the book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed and
One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont (Oct 8, 2019) by the Attorney Robert Bilott Mark
    portrays (even more in it & the club read it for our Jun 2020 meeting.)

* Kankakee's Local Treatment Facility changes

* Saran Wrap Premium & Other wraps

* Cups Ingeo PLA

* Greenware

* Wipes & Fatbergs

* Toilet Paper Options Who Gives A Crap

* Nurdles & Container spills

* Obesogens/Endocrine Disruptors

* Chemicals that hitchhike on plastics

* How many chemicals are used in plastics

* FAUX fur problems

* Plastic shoes etc

* Recycled plastic made into benches etc needing more new plastic for strength

* Exporting plastic and incinerators & toxic Ash


* Toothpaste & Brushes 


* Problems with Silicone products

* Problems with Keurig pods

* Nespresso sustainable products


* Mayan Loofah Scrubbers made of Giant Egyptian Cucumber

* Cat products...equine pellets for litter...cans vs bag food

* Michael Hansen and study on plastic bags


* Recycled Plastic Children Toys

* Frontline documentary Plastic Wars (It was the 2nd Film Discussion I did in 2020) View Up Above

* Biodegradable vs Degradable vs Compostable

* Behavioral Economist Colin Aston-Graham "Attitude Behavior Disconnect"

* Plastic in Fish

* Humes study on Phytoplankton Coast of CA

* Cancer Alley and oil refineries, plastic plants & chemical facilities


* Book: A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington (I added it to our list!)

* Table Salt having plastic

* The credit card of plastic idea being challenged

* Dr. Jenny Davies studies on plastic

* # of chemicals not tested

* Bill Moyers Trade Secrets documentary (View Up Above)

* The Incredible Shrinking Woman movie with Lily Tomlin (View Up Above)

* Tadpoles not turning into frogs

* Bean Bags

* The Graduate & It's A Wonderful Life reference to Plastics

* Coca Cola's Plastic Promises Documentary (View Up Above)


* The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act & what other countries already have

* Jewish Maxim teaches that you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to
   desist from it.

* Broken Plastic Coat Hangers can be used for wreaths and other crafts

* Lead Gas consequences and went removed from gas

* Quote: "Life is time. If we are alive we have time, and no one else should be able to tell you how to spend it. What we, as a culture, need to do is stop ceding control of that time, those decisions about how we spend it, to someone or something else - our culture, our job, our technology, our expectations, or someone else's."

** If I missed anything please let me know.

*** I do not have my book on me so I will check her references in the back and get any additional links on here soon!!! 










































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