Two years, two bags: How she makes almost no trash
When your day job is measuring the health of waterways, it's a given you're going to be more aware of just how much humans can resemble parasites, sucking the very life out of the host we call planet earth.
That realization can result in eco-despair, depression, or even heavy drinking. Or you can do something about it.
For one Charlottesville woman, the flash of insight came at the end of 2008, when she took her garbage can out and looked up and down the street lined with filled trash cans, including her own.
"I couldn't pretend any more that my trash wasn't going to end up buried in someone's land or in the water," says Rose Brown. "There's not enough room on the planet for all the trash."
The now 32-year-old decided not to produce any trash the next year. Talk about a New Year's resolution.
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