It’s time for new year’s intentions to eat better, save money, manage stress, exercise more…
Reduce your trash and reach all of these goals and more. Because practically every aspect of modern life involves trash, when you attempt to reduce your waste, you examine every aspect of your lifeāand you live more intentionally.
Last year’s 6-step plan to get off of plastic was my fourth most popular post of 2018. For 2019, I’ve created a zero-waste plan with a different accomplishment for each day of the month. Follow this plan, and by the end of the 31 days, you will have slashed your waste, adopted some new healthy habits, saved money and more. Download a PDF version of the plan below to use throughout the month.
Day 1 Hold on to your plastic trash
If you start this challenge on January 1st, you may have been up late partying the previous night. But even exhausted or hungover, youāll find this first step easy to accomplish.
Collect your plasticāeven recyclable plasticāfor the month so you can audit it later. Recycling delays plasticās transit to landfill. It does not prevent it. Plastic, unlike metal or glass, can be recycled a limited number of times only, as the process degrades the material and results in lower quality plastic, which eventually goes to the dump.
Although Iām not advocating you become a hoarder, you will find your new waste reducing regimen easier to tackle if you know where your waste comes from. If you prefer, take pictures of all the plastic before you put it in recycling. But do track it. Weāll come back to this step later in the month.
Day 2 Go on a buy-nothing-new fast
The easiest way to reduce your consumption is to stop consuming.
Donāt browse for clothes or anything else onlineādidnāt you just get a bunch of stuff you didnāt want for Christmas? Steer clear of the mall. Avoid the big box craft store. If you think you need something, wait a few days and youāll either forget about it or the desire will likely disappear.
Of course if you must buy somethingāyour furnace broke down and the thermometer reads 34 below outside or you need a new toothbrush (see Day 16) or you somehow lost your menstrual cup (see Day 14)āgo off of your fast. A mom on Instagram told me that she and her kids plan on doing a buy-nothing-new year for 2019 but they will give themselves three passes each for stuff they really do need or want.
Stay on your fast for as long as you feel comfortableāa few days, a week, the entire month or longer.
Day 3 Assemble a zero-waste kit from items you already own
A packed and ready-to-go zero-waste kit will save you from many waste dilemmas. For example, if you take a jar with you when you eat at your favorite restaurant, you wonāt have to choose between wasting the food you couldnāt finish or wasting the disposable container the restaurant provides for your leftovers.
Youāll want several reusable items in your zero-waste kit:
- A water bottle or mug or both
- Metal cutlery and chopsticks
- Cloth napkins
- A few jars
- Cloth produce bags (for shopping, for snacks, for just about anything)
- Cloth shopping bags
Store your kit in one of your cloth shopping bags, ready to go.
You can spend a fortune buying all of this stuff brand new but start with what you already have. You may find many of these items lying around your home. If youāre crafty, you could sew these cloth produce bags or these bento bags out of scrap fabric.
Keep an eye out for your kit items and ask friends, family, coworkers, restaurants and cafĆ©s for their jars. Youāll use them for everything: buying food, storing food, eating and drinking out of, bringing home leftovers, packing lunches and more.




Day 4 Cook a clear-out-the-fridge dinner
If you follow this plan, tomorrow, youāll go food shopping. Before you do that, cook a meal with what you have on hand to prevent food from going to waste. According to the NRDC, up to 40 percent of the food we produce in this country goes to waste. That squanders not only the food itself but also all the resources that went into producing the food. Once in a landfill, food becomes compacted and cut off of oxygen. Anaerobic bacteria break down this food and as a byproduct, release methane gas, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide.
Food waste is often literally the low-hanging fruit of combatting climate change. Do a quick inventory of your refrigerator and pantry and figure out what you can cook with what you have. Soup or stir fry will use up piles of vegetables. A pot pie in winter will warm everyone up. Roast vegetables and add to sandwiches or purƩe and add to dips. Extra fruit can go into a fruit crumble. Click here for more ideas.
Day 5 Shop at your local farmersā market
Here in Northern California, our farmersā market runs year round, the food tastes incredible and it comes with no packaging. We are spoiled. I use my homemade produce bags to shop at my market. Find your farmersā market in the US through Local Harvest. In Canada, search at Farms.com.
When you shop at the farmers’ market, you support small farms, you cut out the middleman so the farmers earn more money and more of your dollars stay in your community.
According to IndieBound, an association of independent local bookstores, when you shop at a small, local business, for every $100 you spend, $52 stays in the community. Spend that $100 with the big guys and a paltry $13 remains in your community, for, you know, building roads and funding schools and keeping hospitals open and paying firefighters.
If you donāt have access to farmersā markets, consider joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) and request no plastic bags. Some CSAs use less packaging than others. Ask around. If your CSA wraps its food with lots of plastic packaging, when you return your box, return the packaging along with it and a note explaining why. In the US, search for a CSA also through Local Harvest.


Day 6 Plan how youāll compost
As I mentioned in Day 4, food rotting in landfill generates methane gas, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide. But put that same food in a compost heap and it will actually suck carbon dioxide out of the air.
If you have a patch of dirt or grass in your yard, you can start composting today. Collect your food scrapsāfruit and vegetable peels, scraps of food your kids didnāt finish at lunch, moldy produceāin a large container or bowl and toss them on the ground at the end of the day. Cover them with brown matter (dry leaves, for example, or hay if you have it). Tomorrow, repeat. Or wait to add your scraps every few days.
My sister composts year round in the Great White North. She tosses her scraps on the compost heap outside. They freeze. They thaw. They compost. Click here for more on my lazy backyard composting.
If you live in an apartment and have no yard, consider starting a worm bināor vermicompost. Youāll keep a bin of red worms in a convenient location and feed them your food scraps. Theyāll produce earthy-smelling and nutrient-rich material that you can add to houseplants or give it to gardening friends.
Almost all of the instructions you find online for building a vermicompost bin use two large plastic tubs. I found these instructions for building a wooden version. I keep finding wine cratesāon the side of the road, at stores, from neighborsāand think a few crates might easily be converted into a worm bin.
My city also collects food scraps. Check this list from Litterless for municipalities or even stores that collect food scraps in your state.
Having no luck finding compost facilities near you? There’s an app for that! ShareWaste is like Airbnb for your food scraps and it looks rather brilliant. You search the ShareWaste map for people accepting compost scraps where you liveāor where you will be traveling toāand then you drop them off. Or you sign up to accept compostable materials.
Day 7 Pack a low-waste lunch for work or school
When you brown bag it, not only will you save money, youāll also eliminate all the trash associated with take-out foodāthe food wrappers; the paper cup, plastic lid and straw; the paper napkins; the condiment packages; the bag that holds all the individually wrapped food. Thatās a pile of trash!
Leftovers make the perfect lunch and help prevent food waste. Search for a reusable container to put them into. Or pack a salad in a jar; a sandwich, burrito or wrap in a container or beeswax wrap; crackers in a jar, carrot sticks in a jar and hummus in a container. Click here for more ideas for packing a zero-waste lunch.
Day 8 Examine your first weekās worth of trash
What is your number one item? The ubiquitous to-go coffee cup? Plastic food wrappers? Plastic yogurt cups? Try to figure out an alternative. To replace the to-go cup, take your own mug to the cafĆ©. If you need a replacement for your favorite food, check out my my recipe index here. Youāll find recipes for many foods most of us buy at the store in plastic bags and containers.
Each week, continue to collect your trash or take pics of it. Figure out what changes you can makeāwhat you donāt need and what you can get without the (usually) plastic waste. If you are stumped, look at this list of 50 steps to break up with plastic.
Day 9 Do a bit of meal planning
Like all things zero waste, a bit of planning prevents a pile of waste. Meal planning prevents both the packaging waste and the food waste. By planning your meals ahead of timeāeven just one meal to start withāyouāll avoid the temptation to go through drive thru after a long day at work and chow down on a bunch of unhealthy, over-packaged food.
Youāll find zero-waste cooking much easier if you eat more vegetable-centeredārather than meat-centeredādishes, which also happen to be the healthiest for you. Even at most grocery stores, many vegetables have little plastic packagingāand they taste delicious! Since youāre going to the trouble, double the recipe so you can squirrel some away for later. Youāll save time.
You donāt have to create a very elaborate meal plan if you prefer not to. Here’s what I usually do: On the weekend, Iāll look at what food I have on hand and then think of a couple of meals I can make out of it during the week. I then buy any ingredients I need for those dishes. Iāll cook one meal the first night, eat leftovers the next night, then make a different meal the night after that. The next night we might eat more leftovers or something new made from all the leftovers. (The person who does the cooking generally appreciates leftovers more than anyone else in the family.) Click here for easy 4-step meal planning.
Day 10 Fill up on staples at the bulk bins
With your meal plan in hand, itās time to go shopping.
Filling up on staples at the bulk binsāflour, sugar, nuts, dried fruit, beans, rice, popcorn, oils, nut butters, baking soda, maple syrup, olives, spices, tea and so onāreduces a pile of packaging waste. Yes, these foods came to the store in packages but in very large packages. If you bought your own little package every time you needed something rather than filling up at the bulk bins, you would contribute much more packaging to landfill.
Before you take a jar to the store to fill up with bulk flour or sugar or anything, make sure you ask someone at customer service to mark the ātareā on the jarāthe jarās weightābefore you fill it up. The cashier with then deduct this tare from the overall weight of the jar. Youāll pay only for whatās in the jar and not for the weight of the jar.
I regularly hear from people in the UK (and elsewhere but disproportionately the UK) that they have no access to bulk bins. You can still reduce your waste without access to bulk. Read about some strategies in the post āGood, Better, Best Zero-Waste Shopping.ā


Day 11 Save your vegetable scraps
I canāt remember the last time I bought broth. I used to buy a Tetra Pak of the stuff, use half, store the rest in the refrigerator and then, after it had turned bad, throw it out. So. Much. Waste.
Now I make it. It tastes delicious and I control what goes into it.
Throughout the week, as I prep my vegetables, I save celery tops, carrot ends (not the leafy green partsāthey may lend a bitter flavor), the ends of onions, cauliflower cores, garlic cloves that have begun to dry out, the ends of green beans, tomato cores, squash innards, vegetable peels and so on. I keep these bits in glass jars in the freezer. Once I have amassed enough scraps, I make broth. Here is the full recipe.
Day 12 Take a hike
Getting out in nature not only makes you appreciate nature more, it confers many health benefits such as improved short-term memory, reduced stress, improved vision, increased concentration and more. And, while enjoying yourself on a quiet hiking trail, you won’t see ads, no one will try to sell you anything and you can’t buy anything. You’ll consume fresh air onlyāand water if you remembered your water bottle.
Day 13 Buy bread in a cloth produce bag
I bake lots of sourdough bread but I realize not all bread eaters will bake bread and most will opt to buy it. If you buy yours, find a bakery that sells bread loose and take your own cloth produce bag with you to store it in. Loose muffins or cookies also work in a cloth produce bag š
Day 14 Switch to cloth menstrual pads or a cup or both
When I was pregnant with my younger daughter Charlotte, I bought flannel fabric to sew receiving blankets. After we no longer needed the receiving blankets, I cut them up and used the fabric to sew reusable menstrual pads. They work really well. I have made thick pads and thin panty shields as well. Every 28 days, about $5 stays in my pocket. Over the past 10 plus years, I’ve saved hundreds of dollars. Here is a pattern similar to the ones I made.
If youād rather buy cloth pads, check out LunaPads or Glad Rags. I also use a Diva Cup (so simple!). You can buy these at many drug stores and some grocery stores. Just look in the aisle with menstrual products. Both cloth pads and menstrual cups cost quite a bit upfront but soon they pay for themselves.
Day 15 Choose bar soap
Consumer products companies like Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble can sell us only so many bars of soap. How to increase the profits on that? Sell us liquid soap and package it in a plastic container with a big plastic pump.
Take back the bar! Look for naked bars of soap. I can find these in a few grocery stores near me. If you can only find soap wrapped in paperālike Dr. Bronnerās for exampleāget that and donāt worry about being perfect. Youāre still eliminating the pile of trash that liquid soap creates.
You can also wash dishes with bar soap. Savon de Marseille is a good choice. Or turn that bar soap into liquid soap. Here are the instructions for that.
Day 16 Brush with a bamboo toothbrush
Until today, I havenāt recommended you buy anything yet. But do switch to a bamboo toothbrush when your current plastic toothbrush wears out. I have a Brush with Bamboo toothbrush at the moment. The bamboo handle will go into my compost heap when the bristles wear out.
Bonus: toothpaste. Let me begin by saying that I am not a dentist. Here are my recipes for toothpaste and tooth powder. They work well for me. Aquarian Bath carries tooth powder, which I have also used and like.
Several years ago, I used Toothy Tabs from Lush but the company at some point changed the simple paperboard packaging to ungodly plastic. Maybe it will change back.
Day 17 Figure out how to wash your hair
For me at the beginning, shampoo had been the holy grail of plastic-free living. I struggled to find a good solution. Today I usually wash my hair with baking soda, followed by a vinegar rinse using my homemade vinegar (store-bought of course works). I put about a tablespoon of baking soda in a cup, fill it with 1/4 cup or so of water, pour that over my wet hair, scrub and then comb it through my hair with my fingers and rinse very thoroughly with water.
Next, I rinse with diluted vinegarāabout a tablespoon and 1/4 cup of water. I pour that on, work it through and rinse. My daughters love shampoo bars. I find they work best if I follow them also with a vinegar rinse.
Day 18 Make deodorant
When we first went plastic-free, I had trouble finding deodorant that worked. I tried rock crystal deodorant but it didnāt work for me. I bought a small deodorant bar that had been scented with, yes, patchouli. I didn’t like it. It didnāt work. I tried no deodorant. This did not work. Finally, my daughter MK made me some deodorant. I love it and will never go back to the commercial stuff. Here is the recipe. In a pinch, Iāll also simply dust some baking soda onto my underarms.
Day 19 Attempt to eat in a restaurant
This will go much better in a restaurant that you know as youāll have fewer plastic surprises. Also, donāt set yourself up for failure and go to In ān Out Burger and then freak out when the person waiting on you hands you fries in a paper bag. Go to a real restaurant that serves food on real plates with real cutlery.
Tell your server you donāt want a straw, youād like your coffee in a ceramic cup, you brought your own cutlery, you brought your own container for leftovers and so on. Let them know in advance so they donāt bring unnecessary plastic to the table. Putting a straw in a drink is an automatic response for busy, underpaid servers.
Day 20 Go to the thrift shop
If youāve stuck to your buy-nothing-new fast (Day 2) all this time but would really like to go shopping, itās time to hit the thrift shop. If you’ve declutteredāa common side effect of setting out on the zero-waste pathādrop off the things you no longer need or want.
Day 21 Ferment something
When you go zero waste, how will you buy vinegar? Or carbonated drinks? Or dill pickles? Or yogurt? People have fermented food for thousands of years. Fermentation preserves food, increases the foodās nutrition, uses little to no energy, saves money and best of allātastes delicious.
Our diets are all out of whack todayāeating blueberries in winter and winter squash in summer, insisting on having what we want when we want it, when in fact food out of season lacks taste due to its far-flung origins half-way around the world, which result in an absence of freshness and nutrition.
Preserving food through fermentation, on the other hand, puts you in touch with the natural cycles. I look forward to the return of tomatoes at the farmerās market in July, when I will make fermented salsa. The flavor is worth the wait.
Sauerkraut is the gateway ferment. To make this probiotic, gut-healthy food, all you need is cabbage and salt. Click here for the instructions. For more fermented foods, go to my recipe index.
Day 22 Drink more tap water
Do this and youāll consume fewer bottled drinks filled with sugar and other ingredients you donāt want. And if you switch to tap water, you can stop spending your hard-earned cash on bottled water and plastic Brita filters. If you want to filter your tap water, consider using a naked charcoal filter. Life Without Plastic and Miyabi sell these.
Day 23 Buy lunch or dinner in your own container
When you first take a container to the deli counter or take-out restaurant and ask your server to please, pretty please put your food in it, you may feel like a freak. By the time you have made this request a dozen times, you may feel like, well, a freak. If you need moral support when making this request, bring a friend. If your friends find your request embarrassing and donāt want to be seen in public with you while you make your outrageous demands, just remember that all over the world, people are making this same request. Some of them may even do so in your very same store.
Donāt worry about what the person waiting on you thinks. If you explain why you want the sandwich in your own containerāto reduce your wasteāyou might just spark a conversation and bring another convert into the fold.
And as the zero-waste and plastic-free movement continues to grow and as more people make the radical request of āPlease put my sandwich here,ā your behavior will seem ordinary and not the act of rebellion that it currently is.


Day 24 Go a day without snacking in between meals
Do this and you wonāt be tempted to buy snack foodsābecause youāve vowed not to eat themāwhich are almost always wrapped in plastic packaging. Youāll be healthier, youāll appreciate your meals more and you will save money. Try to avoid snacking between meals regularly.
Day 25 Hit the library
Itās the weekend (if you started this challenge on 1/1/19)! Woohoo! Borrow books and movies from the library for free entertainment at home. Bonus accomplishment: Buy some bulk popcorn kernels in a jar or cloth produce bag and pop a big pot of popcorn on the stove to enjoy while you watch your movies. Click here for the recipe.
Day 26 Brew a cup of coffee or tea at home
According to this Eater article, every year, up to six billion Starbucks cups wind up in landfill. A better designed disposable cup doesnāt go far enough. We need to eat and drink every morsel from reusable cups and dishes. You can easily do this at home and youāll save money. If you do not have looseleaf bulk tea or bulk coffee on hand, try to find some today (unless you don’t drink either!). While you enjoy your cuppa, curl up with one of your library books.
Day 27 Replace paper towels
I have a lifetime supply of cotton rags I cut out of my kidsā old t-shirts. Yes some nasty manufacturing processes went into the production of said t-shirts but I will use these rags for years.
If you sew, consider making these cute reusable cloth unpaper towels. While youāre at it, replace tissues with handkerchiefs you cut out of old flannel sheets or any other suitable fabric you have lying around. You get extra points if you try the family cloth or switch to a bidet.
Day 28 Clean your home
At day 28, itās been awhile! Disinfecting spray, toilet pucks with bleach, surface cleaners with bleach, disinfecting wipesāboth the products themselves and their packaging generate a ton of waste. Yes, you need to clean your home but you do not need to kill 99.9 percent of microbes in it. We canāt build immunity to germs if we kill all the germs. Use milder products like vinegar and baking soda to clean your house. Put your new rags to good use.
To make your own vinegar, use apple peels and cores or brew kombucha to the point of very strong vinegar.
Day 29 Make something
We have abandoned many skillsācooking, carpentry, gardening, sewing and more. Our dependency on corporations to fulfill our every desire has rendered us helpless to take care of our basic needs. This dependency on industryāthis convenienceācontributes to waste probably more than anything else. The maker movement has begun to change this situation though. Rather than passively consume, a growing number of people want to actively make.
So try your hand at makingācook homemade pasta, mend a pair of pants or grow a tomato plant. Whatās the worse that can happen? You might waste some flour, jab yourself with a sewing needle or get your hands dirty (dirt is good for your microbiota.)
Donāt worry if your attempts at a new skill result in imperfect creations. Just take the plunge and try something. If you sew and have not yet found cloth produce bags, consider making some of those today.
Day 30 Joināor createāa zero-waste community
I belong to a zero-waste meetup group here in Northern California. Before I attended the first event, I thought to myself, āWhat will we do in this group? Sit around and drink out of our stainless steel water bottles and complain about garbage?ā But weāve met for all sorts of activities. We cleaned up garbage at a creek, we went bulk shopping at Rainbow Grocery (a.k.a., bulk Mecca), Iāve organized swaps of our gently used stuff and through the meetups, I found my first volunteers for sewing produce bags to give away for free at one of our farmersā markets.
I have met the nicest people at these meetups. If you have a zero-waste dilemma, someone else in your group has likely facedāand maneuvered throughāa similar situation. Plus youāll feel normal. Not that that mattersānormal is overrated!
Day 31 Reward yourself
You made it! Donāt worry if you did not reach zero waste at the end of this month. Perfection is neither the point nor possible. And this lifestyle, like life, is a journey not a destination. Focus on how much youāve accomplished, not on your supposed failures. Treat yourself for all of your hard workāa massage, a yoga class youāve wanted to try, a new movie youāve wanted to see or some item that will help you on the zero-waste path.
Happy New Year!
Please help. Plastic bags are a staple in my home used for our cats waste and my sister’s diapers and waste as she has disabilities. What to use instead i simply can not figure out.
Help and thanks,
Cary n
crynwllms@yahoo.com
Here’s an idea that we use, Caryn! I set aside any annoying packaging that makes its way into our house (for example, the bag our elderly kitty’s special food comes in) and use that as my “trash bag.” The bag itself sadly isn’t recyclable, and I can’t eliminate it because the cat needs her special food, so I make the best of it by using it to collect any trash we happen to make. It’s been working well for us! When you audit your trash, maybe you will find something similar you can use!
I do this as well. In fact I often take others unwanted single use bags for this same purpose. They already took them, so I can use them instead of just having them thrown away or disposed of improperly.
Caryn, I didnāt realize I could reply directly to your post. If you scroll down I posted how I deal with the kitty litter box. I hope you find it useful.
Thank you for the amazing and comprehensive article and daily calendar! I see several next steps on our path…particularly kicking the bathroom plastics, buying in bulk with jars and farmer’s markets. Great way to start the year.
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I’m curious what the suggestion would be for areas that do not have a running farmers market in the winter
Very informative. I like how you break down each day, giving the necessary information to meet each goal. I really want to reduce the amount of waste we produce and following this will help a lot. Really look forward to it.
Wow! This is such a thorough post. Thank you so much for sharing your tips!
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I learned this from my Mom when back in the day vacuum cleaners didnāt have disposable bags and she would empty the cloth bag in this manner.
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Great article. Thank You! Keep it up š
This is very nice!
Oh, what an interesting way of organizing the information on zero-waste lifestyle! I adore this calendar! If there were 32 days in a month, I would add Ā«Buy furniture coversĀ» meaning that instead of discarding your old furniture you can revive it by putting a beautiful cover on it. Furniture pieces are so large and it’s always such a pity to see old sofas, chairs or whatsoever standing near garbage bins.
I’ll take the plastic that 6 toilet papers rolls are put in and use for my trash in the bathroom or use the really big ones from costco, where they put 6 rolls of 6 toilet papers and use those big ones for my kitchen trash.
Hi.. Regarding the composter mentioned above.. What do you think of this one?
https://wildatlanticgarden.com/collections/all/products/kitchen-vermiculture-composter
Can you put all types of food scraps into this?
Thanks
Stephanie
Wow! That’s beautiful. It looks like a worm palace! You can’t put everything into a worm bin but you can put quite a lot into it, including vegetable and fruit peels (but not too many citrus peels), shredded paper, torn up egg cartons and more. My daughter started vermicomposting and I hope she’ll write a blog post for me about it.
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