Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What I Learned from a Year of No Garbage

Internationally published author and humorist Eve Schaub challenged her family to attempt the seemingly impossible: to live in the modern world, for an entire year, without creating any trash at all. The resulting memoir, Year of No Garbage, has been featured in the New Yorker, and was described by Bill McKibben as filled with “humor and grace.” Schaub reveals shocking truths she learned along the way about garbage, plastics, and the recycling industry. This talk will trace the high and low points of Schaub’s family’s Zero Waste journey, focusing on lessons learned and where we go from here.

Following Eve’s presentation and Q&A, we will hear from Maggie Peard, Lexington’s Sustainability and Resilience Officer, and Erica Bouchard Rabins, Owner of Center Goods, as we consider Lexington’s zero waste future.

Registration is required.

Presented in partnership with Lexington Zero Waste and the Lexington Sustainability and Resilience Office.

Copies of the author’s book will be available for purchase through Maxima Book Center.

This program is made possible by the generous donors to the Cary Library Foundation and LexZeroWaste members.