On our Bookshelf this Month

November 2024

We’ve heard of pandemic puppies, pandemic pounds, and pandemic projects. Here’s one woman’s chronical of her (inadvertently pandemic) project, begun in January 2020, just as COVID set in. In Zero Waste Melrose’s monthly series, What’s on our Bookshelf this Month?, we highlight books on the subjects of zero waste and sustainability.

Eve O. Schaub undertook, cajoling her family along, a one-year quest not to generate any garbage for the whole year. This, she knew, would be challenging; it was then made even moreso during the pandemic. She shares their journey in Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste. Humorous and informational, yet also sad and enraging, Eve tells of ‘the garbage blob that ate my kitchen’ and more.

Available online through booksellers and Audible, as well as hoopla, which is accessible for free through the Melrose Public Library.