“People hear about me, and the 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.

Singer is also CEO and founder of an environmentally friendly cleaning supplies company called The Simply Co. — and she hasn’t produced any waste since 2012.

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