7 Top adult books like Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub

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Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

By: Eve O. Schaub

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the Year of No Garbage is Super S…

If you liked the adult plot in Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills

By: Tristan Gooley

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Turn Every Walk into a Game of Detection When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside,… read more

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2. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

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  • science
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

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3. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

5. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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6. Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

By: Eve O. Schaub

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the Year of No Garbage is Super S… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • science
Cover of 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg

7. 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste

By: Kathryn Kellogg

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

We all know how important it is to reduce our environmental footprint, but it can be daunting to kn… read more

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  • audiobook
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

8. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

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  • science
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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9. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image by Siobhan  Gallagher

10. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

11. Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

By: Yunte Huang

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of the Atlantic 's "Books to Get Lost in This Summer" Best Books of August 2023: InsideHook, W… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t by Messie Condo

12. Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t

By: Messie Condo

3.94

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Even you can get your sh*t together!Tidy the F*ck Up is a funny, down-to-earth parody of Marie Kond… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Contrary to popular belief and Pinterest, not everything is made better by being sorted into containers. Socks don’t need their own little cubbies. They’re socks—they’re not going to wander off or ge…"

-Messie Condo, Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t

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13. Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life

By: Jen Chillingsworth

3.76

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce ou… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of Our Little Farm: Adventures in Sustainable Living (From the Author of The Hidden Life of Trees) by Peter Wohlleben

14. Our Little Farm: Adventures in Sustainable Living (From the Author of The Hidden Life of Trees)

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times -bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees , and his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road by Bernard Ollivier

15. Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road

By: Bernard Ollivier

4.10

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier begins his epic journey on foot across the Silk Road. Upon re… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris

16. A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

By: Will Harris

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl Fr… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"The food that came out of the [industrialized] system was artifically cheap - the price was subsidized by the environment, our wildlife and aquatic life, and our bad health. We just couldn’t see thos…"

-Will Harris, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

Cover of The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home by Kathi Lipp

17. The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home

By: Kathi Lipp

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing] noun For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

18. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Cover of The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions by Michael Norton

19. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By: Michael Norton

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth’s Grit, a … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of An Almost Zero Waste Life:Learning How to Embrace Less to Live More by Megean Weldon

20. An Almost Zero Waste Life:Learning How to Embrace Less to Live More

By: Megean Weldon

3.85

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, m… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • adult
Cover of Sustained: Creating a Sustainable House Through Small Changes, Money-Saving Habits, and Natural Solutions (The Eco-Friendly Home) by Candice Batista

21. Sustained: Creating a Sustainable House Through Small Changes, Money-Saving Habits, and Natural Solutions (The Eco-Friendly Home)

By: Candice Batista

3.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Households are among the biggest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Could t… read more

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14 Best audiobook books like Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste by Eve O. Schaub

Transform Your Habits

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

Jill Winger

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

4.32

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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

Kristin Ohlson

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Zero Waste: Weniger Müll ist das neue Grün

Shia Su

2.74

Transform Your Habits

How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Will McCallum

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

Eve O. Schaub

4.07

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