Year of No Garbage

By: Eve O. Schaub

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

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 listen to this book.

©2023 Eve O. Schaub (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

So much information

There is so much information and facts added into the years long story that it’s extremely easy to read and listen to. I think going back and finding what I need in the book for ideas to implement myself will be a bit hard though. Overall great presentation and content

Truly eye opening!

Everyone should read this book and single use plastics should probably be pretty much banned except where absolutely necessary, like medical uses. It’s frightening to think how microplastics are in our blood and all bodily fluids and by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Recycling of plastics is largely a myth and burning plastics releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. I know personally I can buy less plastic and be more thoughtful on what I spend money on, but corporations like Coke and Pepsi need to do their part also.

scary and eye opening!

I went into this book naively thinking it would be about how to recycle better and limit my waste. Boy was I wrong! She gave all the nitty gritty details about all the different kinds of plastic, how hard it was for her throughout the year because there's so much garbage everywhere, and how basically nothing is actually recyclable. I had to listen in chunks because some information was too hard to listen to and fathom. Very informative and eye opening. She explores all avenues and covers all the topics. Loved the narrator. Although the information is hard to swallow, I am definitely recommending this book to others. The only way we can make change at the top (government, big corporations) is to start discussing the problem now and making changes because our world depends on it.