As a kid growing up in the 80s, Shubhashree Sangameswaran remembers using steel tins and old jars of health drinks to store groceries in the kitchen, taking a can or a bottle along to get milk from the booth and generating much less waste than the generation today. Looking back at the previous generation for inspiration, Shubhashree has come up with an illustrated handbook — Let’s Talk Trash — which gives people “a brief look at the past to see what lessons we can learn from our earlier generations and how they were effortlessly #zerowaste, even before it became a #hashtag.”
Introduction
We have definitely changed from the frugal life - style followed by our earlier generations. From getting food delivered in take away plastic boxes at our doorsteps to the umpteen plastic shop - ping bags that we hoard in our cars, our consumption driven lifestyle has made zero-waste management a thing of the....
