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How Bea Johnson’s book Zero Waste Home changed the course of one Hongkonger’s life

Bea Johnson’s Zero Waste Home (2013) describes how to eliminate household rubbish with composting, recycling and reusable products. Fanny Moritz, founder and chief executive of Hong Kong online reusable products store and zero-waste platform NO!W No Waste, explains how the book changed her life. At the end of 2015, I had just returned from a long break in France. I was lost in my job (Moritz ran her own digital agency) and looking for a new meaning to my life. I’d had a difficult...

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