When Bea Johnson decided to start blogging about her family’s new lifestyle, her husband warned her that she was opening herself up to a lot of criticism.
“The New York Times ran an article about us in 2010. Back then people really didn’t know what our lifestyle meant,” Bea says. “They associated it with free-living in the woods and being a hippy; we received a tonne of criticism.”
But Bea and her husband weren’t survivalists, naturists or swingers, they simply wanted to stop producing rubbish.
Bea coined the term “Zero Waste” to apply to the way her family were trying to live, because in 2008, when they started, there wasn’t even a term for what Bea, husband Scott and their sons Max and Leo were trying to do.
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