India generates 62 million tonnes of waste every year. This book is your starting point for changing that — one household at a time.

Bare Necessities: How to Live a Zero-Waste Life is India's most comprehensive and practical guide to sustainable living — written by Sahar Mansoor, founder and CEO of Bare Necessities, University of Cambridge alumna, and one of India's most recognised voices on zero waste living. Featured by Google India, Al Jazeera, NDTV, Vogue, Elle, Femina and India Today.

Published by Penguin Random House in February 2021. 352 pages.

This is not a Western sustainability book retrofitted for India. This was written in India, for India — covering the realities of Indian households, Indian markets, Indian waste infrastructure and Indian consumption patterns. Room by room, habit by habit.

What's inside:

Personal care — swapping synthetic products for zero waste alternatives
Kitchen — reducing food waste, plastic-free cooking and storage
Travel — low waste commuting and travel in the Indian context
Shopping — conscious consumption and where to find sustainable alternatives in India
Activities, recipes, tips and how-to guides — practical, not preachy

About the authors:

Sahar Mansoor carries a 500-gram jar to every workshop she conducts — that jar contains all the waste she has produced in five years of zero-waste living. She built Bare Necessities from the ground up — India's first B Corp certified zero waste personal care brand — while volunteering at the World Health Organization in Geneva and working on decentralized renewable energy projects with SELCO Foundation in rural Karnataka.

Tim de Ridder is a sustainability consultant, educator and global citizen who has organised workshops on circular economy across South and Southeast Asia and written extensively on environmental topics.

Together they bring lived experience, academic rigour and genuine practicality to every page.

"Exhaustive, thought provoking and change inducing." — Amazon India review

"Quite insightfully, the book showcases the practicality of zero waste life perfectly." — Amazon India review

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0143451174
Weight: 500g
Dimensions: 20 x 14 x 4 cm
Published: February 22, 2021

MRP: Rs.350/- incl. of all taxes (per unit)

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