This Girl Has Produced Less Trash in Two Years Than Most Do In One Day

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(Minds) Imagine, city living where you don't produce waste.  Lauren Singer imagined it, and over the last two years has produced only a mason jar of waste.

As an environmental studies major at NYU, Lauren was aghast when, day after day, another student in her class would bring in plastic cups, plates and forks and throw them away.  One day, after being particularly annoyed, she went home and opened her refrigerator to realize she, too, had plastic packaging problems.  Pretty much everything she had in her refrigerator was in plastic containers.  She WAS that girl.

At that moment, she made a decision.  She would no longer produce waste.