Melanie Mannarino
Auteur van The (Almost) Zero-Waste Guide: 100 Tips for Reducing Your Waste Without Changing Your Life
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Award-winning journalist Melanie Mannarino has written and created content for magazines, including Seventeen, Real Simple, and Cosmopolitan, and has worked as deputy executive editor for Redbook and news editor for Marie Claire. The author of The Best Gender-Neutral Baby Name Book, Epic Baby Names toon meer for Girls, Melanie scours antique shops for vintage clothes. Walks to mass transit, and repurposes leftovers like a pro. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, son, and two cats. toon minder
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The author didn't advocate the "reduce" aspect of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra as much as I would have liked. I mean, the subtitle even claims that you can somehow "reduce your waste without changing your life." But that's an oxymoron. Americans desperately need to hear the message that we're simply consuming too much in general, and we need to stop. Why replace a plastic straw with a metal, glass, bamboo or paper version when the vast majority of people just don't need to use straws at all?
Also, the author says that she tried to keep the book concise so as not to waste paper, but there are several blank pages in between each chapter. Yeah, I get that this is sometimes cheaper and more energy efficient for the publishing company, but it was still ironic.… (meer)