Zero Waste Kids

Zero Waste Kids features fun and practical projects designed to get kids reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling to benefit the environment and lead more sustainable lives.

Our planet is in danger! It's time to make a difference to ensure its future by taking up the zero-waste challenge. Zero Waste Kids is full of fun ways to help you make sustainable choices to save planet Earth. Become informed about the crisis we're in but also, more importantly, take action through the 30 achievable child-friendly challenges to reduce waste, including craft activities and lifestyle changes to reduce, reuse and recycle your way to a better future. Filled with facts about the state of our planet, the environmental impact of over-consuming and the waste we produce and where it goes.

Have fun, create, learn, and help the planet with the young kids in your life through 50 colorful, enriching activities made from stuff you already have. With Recycle and Play, learn how to transform cardboard, bubble wrap, lids, containers, egg cartons, and other things that might otherwise be headed to a landfill into hours of engaging play at home. The fun, process-oriented projects invite children to be creative, explore senses, develop skills, and discover how things work, all while reinforcing the importance of reducing waste as part of a sustainable lifestyle. In this book, you’ll find tips on how to extend play and learning for each project as well as helpful hints to engage your kids to come up with fun additions and extensions of their own. While each of the projects includes clear step-by-step instructions and materials lists, you should feel free to adjust to your child’s interests and the materials you have on hand. Organized by the type of material used, the zero-waste projects include: Car Garage and Ramp made from toilet paper tubes and cardboard (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, creative play, and color recognition) Mess-Free Bubble Wrap Painting (Learning Skills: Art, sensory exploration, creative skills, color recognition) Busy Board Lid Activity (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, cognitive skills) Alligator Letter Feed made from egg cartons (Learning Skills: Letter recognition, fine motor skills) Milk Carton School Bus with family photos (Learning Skills: Social development, cognitive skills) Matching Memory Game made from wipe lids (Learning Skills: Cognitive skills, fine motor skills, memory, object recognition) Bond with your child, help them learn through play, and instill a lifelong respect for the environment with Recycle and Play.

Plastic is everywhere. Teach your children how to take care of the ocean and help with the climate change while having a zero waste lifestyle and reducing plastic usage. Did you know that According to some estimates, if we continue on our current path, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by the year 2050? We've produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the entire twentieth century. We're drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices. There are thousands of books that explain why not to use plastic or to have a zero-waste life, but the truth is that none of those books actually get you into action. This planner is made for you to start changing the world from today. Recommended age from 6 to 14. In this book, you will find: 100 pages to fill in 8 x 10 in Perfect size Cute illustrations Glossy durable cover Tips on how to live life without plastic. Monthly planner Weekly planner Guided templates to fill with your plastic-free plan for: Toys Sweet time Emails Christmas time Books and blogs Party decorations Plastic counter Every small step matters when it is related to reducing plastic waste. Start today!

Children will love this book, full of bright and beautiful illustrations to accompany the educational rhymes on each page. Inside you can learn about some of the best and easiest ways you can make a difference to the planet and reduce the amount of plastic thrown away.

A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free. Trash is a big, dirty problem. The average American tosses out nearly 2,000 pounds of garbage every year that piles up in landfills and threatens our air and water quality. You do your part to reduce, reuse, and recycle, but is it enough? In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle, Amy Korst shows you how to lead a healthier, happier, and more sustainable life by generating less garbage. Drawing from lessons she learned during a yearlong experiment in zero-waste living, Amy outlines hundreds of easy ideas—from the simple to the radical—for consuming and throwing away less, with low-impact tips on the best ways to: • Buy eggs from a local farm instead of the grocery store • Start a worm bin for composting • Grow your own loofah sponges and mix up eco-friendly cleaning solutions • Purchase gently used items and donate them when you’re finished • Shop the bulk aisle and keep reusable bags in your purse or car • Bring your own containers for take-out or restaurant leftovers By eliminating unnecessary items in every aspect of your life, these meaningful and achievable strategies will help you save time and money, support local businesses, decrease litter, reduce your toxic exposure, eat well, become more self-sufficient, and preserve the planet for future generations.

How can we celebrate an Eco-friendly birthday party in the forest? That is the question Viggo, the little bear has on his birthday day. How can they do it without hurting the forest by using plastics and non-recyclables?That's when Viggo has a brilliant idea that may just save his birthday party!Join Viggo the bear and all of his forest friends in this exciting book about the power of recycling, team work, friendship, and best of all, birthday wishes that keep on giving!This children book explains what is our responsibility and also describes the ways in which we can avoid waste and be environmentally conscious.This eco-friendly book introduces kids to the basic concepts of recycling while also encouraging the importance of taking care of our ocean and planet through environmental awareness and sustainability.This story is a great way to start children at an early age to care for the environment by understanding the consequences of not recycling.It is also useful for parents to become more aware of the non-ecological way in which we celebrate birthdays. REFLECTIONAt the end of the book, there is a reflection page to prompt dialogue about how to recycle. Children can draw or write the objects that they should put on each bin. Ideal for children age 4/9 Recycling Zero waste Earth day Team work Birthday party

Bea Johnson is “the mother of the zero waste lifestyle movement.” —CNN The book that started the waste-free living movement, Zero Waste Living—relates Bea Johnson’s inspirational personal story and provides practical tools and tips to help readers diminish their footprint and simplify their lives. In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better: they now have more time together, they’ve cut their annual spending by a remarkable forty percent, and they are healthier than they’ve ever been. This book shares essential how-to advice, secrets, and insights based on Bea’s experience. She demystifies the process of going Zero Waste with hundreds of easy tips for sustainable living that even the busiest people can integrate: from making your own mustard, to packing kids’ lunches without plastic, to canceling your junk mail, to enjoying the holidays without the guilt associated with overconsumption. Zero Waste Home is a stylish and relatable step-by-step guide that will give you the practical tools to help you improve your health, save money and time, and achieve a brighter future for your family—and the planet.