Zero Waste in Practice: How to Stop Being a Source of Garbage

Every year each of us throws away more than 400 kilograms of waste. Our bottles, yogurt cups, and cotton swabs don’t disappear into a black hole—they remain on the planet. Bags lie at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in the stomachs of whales, and on the top of Everest. Trash islands have already been found even in the Black Sea; in Bali it isn’t waves that knock surfers down—it's litter. But it’s in our power to slow down the coming eco-apocalypse—we only need to reduce the amount of waste we generate.

In her book, the head of Greenpeace’s media department Violette Ryabko tells you what to replace “t-shirt bags” with, whether eco-friendly sex exists, what to do with cosmetics and clothes, how to organize a birthday without waste and still not lose your mind or get into a fight with relatives. Violette Ryabko’s book is a detailed guide to implementing the zero-waste principle, and also a collection of funny, ironic stories about what it’s like to be an eco-activist—and just a concerned person in our country.