The Huffington Post UK gives insight into the ‘Zero Waste’ movement, led by Lauren Singer of Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Singer lives a lifestyle that creates no trash for the landfill. She employs reusable containers while grocery shopping, thus eliminating the need for disposable packaging. Singer, now featured in the Huffington Post docu-series #Powershift, is successfully using social media to globally promote the idea of living life with ‘Zero Waste’.

Key Takeaways:

• “Living Zero Waste means that I don’t make any trash and I don’t send anything to landfill,” says Lauren Singer.
• Singer rose to fame in the US by fitting every piece of rubbish she’s made in the last three years – mainly essential plastic things that can’t be recycled, like old credit cards – into a single Mason jar.
• In the UK, Doug McMaster’s ‘Zero Waste restaurant’ Silo makes everything on site, composts its leftover food and grows ‘espresso mushrooms’ from waste coffee grounds.

“Dubbed the ‘Zero Waste girl’, the 25-year-old lives in Brooklyn and aims to leave nothing behind as she lives, eats and shops.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zero-waste-lauren-singer_uk_57bae02ae4b0f78b2b4ad87f