How one woman reduced her waste to a jar a week

Tippi Thole recycled. She composted. She thought she was doing a pretty good job environmentally. Then she heard a talk on plastics, and the container of trash she and her eight-year-old son emptied out every week began to look irresponsible.

Tippi Thole with a week's worth of household waste.

Thole replaced her 10-gallon (38-litre) can with a small wastebasket that had been under her bathroom sink and started to change the way she shopped and lived. Within 14 weeks, the family's weekly trash fitted into a six-centimetre-tall Mason jar. With room to spare.

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