The average American produces 4.3 pounds of trash a day.
That's almost 1600 pounds a year, but if we took some simple steps, we could go off the trash grid and minimize thousands of pounds of waste into just a single jar.
So this is my trash jar.
Two years of trash in this tiny little jar?
Yep. That's crazy.
I mean I probably produce 20 times this much in a day.
Yeah, this is everything basically that I couldn't compost, or couldn't recycle, or couldn't figure out what to do with.
Where did you get this idea to become zero waste?
It kind of all started when I was a senior at NYU studying environmental studies.
And one day after class, I went home to make dinner, and I opened my fridge, and I saw that everything in there was packaged in plastic.
