Zero Waste Kids: Hands-On Projects and Activities to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Inspired by internationally acclaimed environmental activist, humanitarian, and adventurer Robin Greenfield,Zero Waste Kids features fun and easy illustratedprojects and activities that will help your familyreduce, reuse, and recycle at home, at school, and in yourcommunity.

While most kids probably arent goingto grow all their own food for a year likeRobin has, Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects for growing some of your own food, with advice and encouragement for why doing so is important. And, instead of wearing all their trash for a week like Robin did, withZero Waste Kids, theyll learn how to audit their trash, to really understand how much waste theyre personally contributing to the earths landfills.

Zero Waste Kidshelps children to understand the world they live in and inspire them to start living in a more sustainable way. Of all the environmental problems we face, trash is one that is easiest to understand because it is very visual, whereas many other problems are more abstract. Zero-waste isnt thesolution to the worlds problems, but a very good place to start.

Zero-Waste projectsinclude:

• Conduct a household trash audit to discover who throws away what and why.
• Swap disposable shopping bags and lunch boxes for reusable, zero-waste options.
• Compost your food scraps and grow your own food.
• Make natural-dye play dough, leaf prints, and more.

Zero Waste Kids is every kids go-to guide for making a difference.

This book is printed on FSC-certified paper using soy inks. And, leading by example, Robin is donating all of his proceeds from thebook to environmental nonprofit organizations.

Activities contributed byApril Hepokoski,Zion Lights, Heidi Rose, Alyssa Binns Gunderson, andMichelle Cassar.