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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 allfor 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 arent flushable and compostables arent 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 youve ever thought twice about that plastic straw in your drink youre gonna wanna read this book