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Living big in small and unique spaces
Stephanie Wall keeps packaging waste out of the house she shares with husband Zach and kids Wesley and Klara.
Home sweet zero-waste home A family with small kids commits to a low-trash lifestyle by H A L L I E G O L D E N / photos by J O S H U A H U S T O N
Stephanie Wall’s home in Shoreline doesn’t have plastic toothbrushes or disposable diapers or a refrigerator lined with one-time-use tubs of storebought food, all of which you might see in
a typical home with young kids. Instead there are bamboo toothbrushes, reusable cloth diapers and a freezer stocked with canning jars filled with homemade purées and vegetable broth. That’s because she and her husband, Zach, along with their two children, Wesley, 4, and Klara, 2, practice zero-waste living. Wall, who is co-founder and chief of staff of the nonprofit group Seattle Zero Waste,
explains the lifestyle is about reducing waste. (Her family only has enough garbage to put out a medium trash container a handful of times a year.) But the practice is also very much centered on being a thoughtful consumer. “It actually starts outside of the home,” she says. “So, refusing things that we don’t need outside of the home, and really thinking CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE >
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