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Going Zero by Kate Hughes - Signed Edition
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Published:
31 Mar 2022
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Paperback
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Hand Signed by Kate Hughes
Paperback Edition
Published 31st March 2022
Going Zero: One Family's Journey to Zero Waste and a Greener Lifestyle by Kate Hughes - Signed Edition
Hand Signed by Kate Hughes
Paperback Edition
New & Unread - Published 31st March 2022
One family’s revolt against everyday pollution
When a ripped beanbag sent thousands of tiny polystyrene balls flying through her garden, Kate Hughes made a decisive break with the throwaway society.
The English journalist greened every aspect of her family’s life. She and her husband ditched plastic and shunned supermarkets. They cooked all meals from scratch and made their own cleaning agents. They bought second-hand clothes and washed them naturally. Reaching deeper, they switched to renewable power, pulled their savings out of dirty banks, and ran an electric car.
They and their two children are now going beyond the ‘zero waste’ goal of avoiding sending anything to landfill.
Told with refreshing humility and humour, this is the inspiring story of an ordinary family who rebelled against the waste of a lifestyle wrapped in plastic. Packed with handy tips, it reveals much about what makes a fulfilling modern family – and how readers can empower themselves to preserve the climate, forests and seas. And, revealingly, how that can lead to a more relaxing life.
A liitle background to how this book is being published:
Small Publisher trials plastic-free production for zero waste book
Canbury Press, the independent non-fiction publisher, is to trial a no-plastic production process for a new book on sustainable living.
Going Zero tells the inspirational, true story of how working mum Kate Hughes decided she’d had enough of throwaway culture and plastic packaging and turned her family’s life upside down by going 100% green, including switching car, energy supplier and financial provider. The family of four have no bins in their home in Wellington, Dorset.
To chime with the ethos of the book, Canbury Press has commissioned a small family business in Devon, Short Run Press, to print Going Zero using 100% recycled paper. Using recycled paper instead of new trees uses 30-50% less energy, according to the paper’s manufacturer, Revive. As part of the sustainable production process, there will be no plastic lamination on the paperback’s cover. In addition, no single-use plastic will be used in its production because Short Run Press will pack copies into cardboard boxes for transportation, rather than plastic ‘printers parcels’ – which are standard in book production by the big UK printers.
The UK publishing industry typically prints books using mixed paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which guarantees it is from sustainably managed forests. Very few books are made using 100% recycled paper. Paper pulp can be re-used between six and eight times before it degrades. Revive paper is manufactured from FSC-certified pulp sources, without the use of optical brightening agents (OBA).
Martin Hickman, managing director of Canbury Press, said: “New FSC-certified paper is widely used in the industry and by us, but we wanted to try to see if we could go further and trial more sustainable production. It’s fitting for Kate Hughes’s book, because she has shown absolutely no compromise in the way she has changed her family’s lifestyle: she’s an inspiration. We’ll be looking to see if we can roll out this experiment. I’m a bit nervous about how booksellers will view the lack of lamination and I want to see what readers say. It would be good to go further.”
Sharon Williams, sales manager for Short Run Press, said: “It has been great to work with Canbury Press. There are other components to a book, not just the paper. We recycle as much as possible, paper, plates, packaging, pallets not to mention chemical free plate making."
The above images are from the manufacture of the book at Short Run Press, there's also a small film of the book being packed in our Coles Books custom-made recycled packaging.
About the Author: Kate Hughes is a national newspaper journalist and columnist. She is Money Editor for Independent.co.uk, for whom she also writes about sustainability. She is a commentator on BBC radio. She lives with her husband David and their two children in Somerset, England.
Format: Paperback Edition
ISBN: 9781912454693
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