The Low Waste Musician Experiment, One Year Later. Last year in September I decided to challenge myself. After reading articles and watching clips about the maelstroms of plastic coagulating in our oceans my conscience couldn't take it anymore. I knew I was a big part of the problem. Have you ever seen a tour van after a long drive? After a festival? It's a wasteland of plastic bottles, to go containers, trash trash trash. After some thought I decided to become a “zero waste”