Living Without Plastic : More Than 100 Easy Swaps for Home, Travel, Dining, Holidays, and Beyond

256 pages | Hardcover 

A friendly, illustrated guide with more than 100 swaps for the most common single-use plastic items and solutions for leading a plastic-free life, with resources for further advocacy and understanding, and a foreword by the experts from Plastic Oceans International.

“An eye-opening guide on how to lessen one’s dependence on plastics. . . . This is a clarion, convincing wake-up call to the scope of the global plastic problem and what readers can do about it. —Publishers Weekly

Embrace a plastic-free lifestyle with more than 100 simple, stylish swaps for everything from pens and toothbrushes to disposable bottles and the 5 trillion plastic bags we use—and throw out—every year.

• Use a natural loofah, not a synthetic sponge
• Buy milk in glass bottles or make homemade nut milk
• Opt for a waste-free shampoo bar
• Skip the printed receipt and opt for an email instead
• Wrap gifts beautifully with cloth

Organized into five sections—At Home, Food & Drink, Health & Beauty, On the Go, and Special Occasions—Living Without Plastic is a cover-to-cover collection of doable, differencemaking solutions, including a 30-Day Plastic Detox Program.