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Ann Arbor

Zero Waste City Guide

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The best resources in LBTS for reducing waste and its impact on the planet, in communities near and far.

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🗓 Next event: Trash Talk Tour: Ann Arbor

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Contents

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Interactive Map

Find out what resources are near you

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Getting Started

Basic waste reduction toolkit

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Composting

Find a home for your food scraps

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Grocery Shopping

Shop zero waste in Ann Arbor

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Repair

Extend the lifetime of your belongings

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Buying Used

Save money, save resources

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Resources

Helpful links

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Buying Used

Zero waste fun in London

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Cleaning & Hygiene

How to get toilettries etc.

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Advocacy

Groups and projects to get involved in

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Social Life

Zero waste fun in London

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Cleaning & Hygiene

How to get toilettries etc.

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Advocacy

Groups and projects to get involved in

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Interactive Map

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HINT:👇 Use the “Filter by” option to narrow down the map!

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The land the City of Ann Arbor occupies is the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – (including Odawa, Ojibwe and Boodewadomi) and Wyandot peoples.

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Getting Started

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Your Zero Waste Survival Kit

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Here are a few things you can carry with you that will open up a lot of zero waste options. These are just suggestions, so feel free to customize your zero waste survival kit to fit your needs.

Do your best not to make any new purchases while putting together your kit. For example, you probably already have cutlery you can use instead of buying a new “to-go” set. Most of these things you can find at home or at a second hand shop,  and some of them you can even make!

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Essential for to-go food or getting things from a deli counter

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Comes in very handy, especially if you come across an unexpected zero waste store!

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Replaces tissue and paper napkins, and can be used as a food container in a pinch

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For eating on the go, or if a restaurant is using disposable cutlery

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If you need a drink while out and about

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Composting

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38% of Michigan’s Municipal Waste Is Biodegradable

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Aside from not buying new things, making sure your food scraps get composted is likely the very best thing you can do to reduce your personal waste footprint. Here’s how to get composting in Ann Arbor:

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If you have a brown cart, you can put food scraps in your compost bin! If you have city waste services and need a brown cart you can request one below. Expect significant waits as staff are limited.

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If you don’t have access to a curbside cart, you can check out the Share Waste app to see if your neighbors may be willing to take your compost.

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If you have a yard, you can consider making your own compost pile! Here’s a good intro how to video.

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We’ve found that if you need to keep compost in your home it’s best to freeze it in a bag. That also makes it easier to manage when you’re transporting it to your nearest compost.

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Grocery Shopping

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Build your zero waste shopping routine

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Food is where you will find the most friction when trying to reduce waste.

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Go to the store you tend to shop at and do a completely zero waste shopping trip. That way, you know what items you can get without changing your routine.

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For the things you can’t get at your usual store, you’ll need to find a specialty store that fills the gaps. Filter the map above to find your closest bulk store. 

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If you can find a farmers market close to home or somewhere you visit often, it’s great to build a routine around market days. E.g., every Saturday go to the library, walk downtown, and pick up food from the market on the way home.

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Great bulk section, loose veggies, spices, coffee, and grains!

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Ann Arbor’s premiere resource for zero waste shopping for everything from oils to grains to pasta to candy.

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Olio allows you to list and pick up excess food from your neighbors.

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Buy Used

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What you want has already been produced!

Buying used items – especially big items like furniture and cars – not only eliminates the demand for the production (extraction, refinement, manufacture, transport) of a new item, but is also cheaper and often means you are giving money to a neighbor rather than a distant executive.

 

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Ask yourself, “can I get this second hand?” every time you think of something you need to purchase.

Try:

Craigslist Ann Arbor

Facebook Marketplace

Ebay (ask them to ship in reused box)

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Buy No Things and Olio are great ways to get into sharing and gifting!

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A new laptop creates about 400X its weight in CO2! Electronics are so easy to get used or refurbished and they have an outsize environmental impact.

Try:

Ebay, Craigslist, or Backmarket

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Repair

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Keep your stuff out of the landfill

Repair – especially for larger items and electronics – is an essential tactic to reduce the pressure to extract more resources.

 

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Join Maker Works or All Hands Active at a community repair day!

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Repair guides for everything, written by everyone.

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All Hands Active has a tool sharing program for members, the library offers some tools to checkout, or  you can list or request tools on Olio to start up tool sharing in Ann Arbor.

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Check out Keen Focus Tech’s post on the hidden impact of buying new tech. If your tech is broken and more than 10 years old you can take it to Best Buy for free electronics recycling.

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Keen focus

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Repair Clinic has guides and parts available for all kinds of appliances.

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Resources

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Additional helpful links 

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Comprehensive list of all the resources you could need to rent, repair, donate, or recycle your stuff!

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Recycle Ann Arbor’s resource for finding out what is recyclable and where.

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Learn about circular economy and zero waste efforts in Ann Arbor.

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Learn about what you can check out of the library instead of buying.

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Support Zero Waste in Ann Arbor

 

Your generous donations helps Live Zero Waste to maintain this guide and support the circular economy in Ann Arbor. Our projects include Zero Waste Challenges, grassroots organizing, and the returnable container program. We’re proud to be a 501(c)3 nonprofit certified by GuideStar (which means your taxes will thank you for your generosity 🙂).

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