“People hear about me, and they think ‘she must live in a tree and have armpit hair,’” Lauren Singer says. “But you don’t have to be a hippie to do this.”
Singer, who runs the lifestyle blog Trash is for Tossers, is sitting in her plastic-free, zero waste Brooklyn apartment eating a donut she got at the corner bakery. While she could easily be mistaken for a typical 24-year-old, she isn’t.