About the Author: Karin Johnson

Karin has lived in Apex, North Carolina since 2007. When she’s not volunteering and teaching others about zero-waste lifestyle, you may find her decluttering, teaching her dog new tricks, working for UNC Rex Healthcare, or helping with the family business.

In Search Of A Zero Waste Tea

Back in March 2018, we conducted a survey through our Toward Zero Waste Facebook Groups regarding tea packaging. One of our members had begun to find tea packaging sized plastic in her finished compost and realized that some her tea packaging waste was clearly not zero waste! Remains of composted tea envelopes [...]

By |February 20th, 2019|Categories: Composting, Food Waste, landfill, trash, Zero Waste|6 Comments

Moving Toward a Zero Waste Halloween

Living a Toward Zero Waste lifestyle - which includes reducing the amount of trash you produce - doesn’t mean you have to forfeit Halloween, a notoriously trash-producing and expensive day. According to csmonitor.com, Halloween spending in 2015 reached about $6.9 billion, or $74.34 per person. For one night?! Yikes. Here’s a handy guide to [...]

By |October 11th, 2017|Categories: Holiday Tips, Holidays|5 Comments
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