Pumpkin waste is seriously scary. In the United States, most of the 900,000 tons of pumpkin produced annually will be trashed, rather than used as food or composted. That's unacceptable. Especially because those pumpkins, whenContinue reading
A lot of zero wasters are familiar with the term "trash jar." When you go zero waste, one of the goals is to be able to fit all your trash into a tiny little masonContinue reading
What is food justice and why is it important? How does it connect to environmental racism and race in general? I feel within the zero waste community, this isn't a topic that's often talked aboutContinue reading
Before I was born, Staten Island, New York was the home of the largest landfill in the world. It closed in 2001, but it was open for almost 70 years. It opened in 1947 asContinue reading
