Description Description Help kids reduce waste, protect the planet, and build sustainable habits with this hands-on guide to zero-waste living.
Zero Waste Kids is a practical, activity-packed guide that teaches children how to reduce trash, reuse everyday materials, compost food scraps, avoid single-use plastics, and make more environmentally friendly choices at home, at school, and in their communities.
Inspired by environmental activist and adventurer Robin Greenfield, this illustrated sustainability book turns big environmental issues into simple, achievable actions for kids. Young readers will learn where their waste goes, why reducing consumption matters, and how everyday choices—from packing a reusable lunch to growing food—can help conserve resources and create less trash.
Through step-by-step zero-waste projects, eco-friendly activities, and real-world challenges, kids can put sustainable living into practice. They’ll conduct a household waste audit, learn the basics of composting, replace disposable products with reusable alternatives, grow some of their own food, and create art and useful objects from natural and repurposed materials.
Hands-on activities include:
- Conducting a household trash and recycling audit
- Reducing single-use plastics and disposable products
- Making reusable lunch kits and shopping bags
- Composting food scraps
- Growing fruits, vegetables, and herbs
- Creating natural-dye play dough, leaf prints, and other nature-based projects
- Finding creative ways to reuse materials instead of throwing them away
Accessible and encouraging, Zero Waste Kids introduces children to sustainability, waste reduction, recycling, composting, conservation, and eco-friendly living while showing them practical ways to make a difference right now.
Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy inks, Zero Waste Kids puts its environmental principles into practice. All author proceeds are donated to environmental nonprofit organizations.
With contributions from April Hepokoski, Zion Lights, Heidi Rose, Alyssa Binns Gunderson, and Michelle Cassar.