Zero Waste 101 Class

If you are a member of a group who is interested in starting your zero waste journey, Zero Waste 101 is for you! Toward Zero Waste Co-founder Leigh Williams will take you through the basic steps of how to start your journey, strategies to expand your goals, and tips to keep it going.

Leigh Williams
Leigh WilliamsCo-Founder
Leigh Williams lives in Cary, NC with her husband, two teenage daughters and a Basenji named Millie. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Clemson University in1996 and enjoyed several years exploring the western United States as a travel nurse. She later moved with her husband to Europe where they spent 6 years as expats in Switzerland, Italy, and England.

Leigh started moving “toward zero waste” in September of 2015 after reading Bea Johnson’s book Zero Waste Home. Bea’s single jar of trash a year for a family of four didn’t seem possible for her own family, but she knew she could do better and was inspired to try.

Wanting to share the journey, Leigh teamed up with Dargan Gilmore after they met on an international zero waste Facebook group. Together, they formed Toward Zero Waste and began to inspire others to move toward a zero waste lifestyle.

On January 1, 2019, she started her own version of a trash challenge to see how long it would take her family to fill up their 95 gallon curbside bin. They pulled their bin to the curb that year at the end of November!

Though no longer working directly on TZW projects, Leigh continues to grow her knowledge and share her passion by speaking, teaching, and engaging with others in the community.

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In this class you will learn:

  • A short history of plastics.
  • Snapshot of the plastic crisis,
  • Quick look at why the plastic crisis is growing.
  • Why I believe it is a solvable problem..
  • An introduction to the Five Rs of Zero Waste
    • Refuse
    • Reduce
    • Reuse
    • Recycle
    • Rot (compost)
  • What you can do at home.
  • How you can inspire change around you.

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