It’s Summer! How to Throw a Zero Waste Party or Event

I’ll admit up front that I’m a complete newbie at this. I was made sensitive to the issue of reducing waste when a local citizens group in Chester, Pennsylvania, who has been working for OVER 30 YEARS to stop, Covanta, the largest US incinerator from continuing to spew noxious gasses into the air and lungs of area residents as well as dropping lead and other nasty pollutants on top of the community.

You can read all about that at this site, but with summer being here and, thankfully after a horrible pandemic year, I wanted to take a moment to research ways we can all reduce our waste (so plastics — most of which are NOT recyclable — and other otherwise recyclable/compostable materials can be kept out of the incinerator and out of the lungs of children in Chester.

OK, I will stop beating you up, and simply point…