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In today’s digital world, I often question how necessary the old school practice of handing out your business card is. It seems a little archaic, and a lot like a waste of paper. And then I find myself searching through the stack of business cards that I have collected over the years, for that […]
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I’ve talked about our plastic pollution problem before — recent studies have found traces of plastic in tap water and sea salt, FYI. I’ve mentioned all of the ghost gear in our oceans — an estimated 640,000 metric tons of fishing gear are left in our oceans every year. I’ve talked about textile waste — […]
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One of the biggest issues surrounding the fashion industry is the amount of textile waste it produces. I’ve mentioned this issue before, but between all of the clothes we throw away every year, to all of the fabric that doesn’t get used during production, we’re creating one monster pile of textiles waste. According to the […]
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I talk about plastic pollution. A lot. But one thing I don’t often touch on is actually one of the biggest offenders — polystyrene, or as you probably know it, styrofoam. According to the Environmental Production Agency, styrofoam is the fifth largest source of hazardous waste in the United States. The production, use and disposal […]
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I’ll admit it, few materials in life are as convenient as plastic. It is used for gosh-darn, quite near everything in our lives — vehicles, packaging, electronics, clothing. I mean, you name it, plastic is probably in it. I’ll also admit that I may or may not sometimes overdo it when it comes to talking […]
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By now you have probably heard about about the plastic pollution that is clogging our oceans. Some estimates put plastic use at 300 million tons per year, with only 8% of it getting recycled. , Americans alone discard more than 30 million tons of plastic a year. And Greenpeace estimates that the amount of plastic […]
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Joey Active Crop Top in Stripe If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times — our oceans have a pollution problem. Between the plastic pollution, caused from plastic bottles, straws and all of the other millions of plastic things in our lives and the issues surrounding “ghost fishing” and “ghost gear,” we’ve […]
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Hey! Me again, talking about our ocean plastic problem. I know, I’ve said it over and over and over (and over and over) again. But, I think it’s worth saying again — we have a plastic problem. We use a lot of plastic in our lives — some estimates put plastic use at nearly 300 […]
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You guys. We. Have. A. Plastic. Problem. I know, I know, I’ve said that before. But I think it’s worth saying again, and just in case you haven’t been paying attention, let me catch you up to speed: Some estimates put plastic use at nearly 300 million tons annually, and according to the Plastic Pollution […]
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I may or may not have mentioned that there’s a little problem in our oceans called ghost nets before (hint: I absolutely did mention it). But for those of you who don’t know, according to World Animal Protection International, an estimated 640,000 metric tons of fishing gear — including nets, lines and traps — are […]
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I know, I know, I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but I’m going to say it again anyway — we have a plastic problem. But in case you haven’t been reading, according to a 2015 study, an estimated 19.4 billion pounds of plastic wind up in the world’s oceans each year. And I […]
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I’ve written about our textile waste issue a few times before. Very quickly though — the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that in 2013, 15 million tons of textile waste was generated, and 13 million tons were sent to landfill or incinerator (almost 11 million of that coming from the U.S. alone). What I haven’t talked […]
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I’ve mentioned our plastic problem once or twice before, but never one to forgo a golden opportunity, here I am again. And, in case you haven’t been reading (welcome, BTW), let me catch you up to speed. Whether it be the packaging on your latest Amazon order, the cup and straw for your daily iced […]
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According to a 2014 report from World Animal Protection International, an estimated 640,000 metric tons of fishing gear are left in our oceans every year. This makes discarded fishing nets approximately 10% of the plastic pollution in our oceans. And if the contribution to our plastic pollution problem weren’t concerning enough, these nets, called ghost […]
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I’ve mentioned our plastic problem before, but what many people don’t realize that one of the biggest culprits contributing to the problem is a product they probably use on a daily basis — plastic straws. Nowadays plastic straws come in nearly every single drink you consume — from your iced coffee in the morning, to […]
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I think by now most people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but just to catch you up to speed, it is a giant collection of marine debris (i.e. litter that ends up in our oceans, seas and other large bodies of water) floating around in the North Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific […]
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Fashion today moves fast. Very, very fast. So fast in fact, that collectively consumers are buying more than 80 billion new items of clothing every year. That number, according to the film The True Cost is 400% more clothing today than we purchased 20 years ago. So it comes as no surprise that in order […]
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I’ve been meaning to start a new series called “Trash Talkin’ on Tuesday,” where I insult my readers (all 2 of you), and in turn you come back with the quickest “Yo Mama” joke. Whoever has the best comeba…I’m kidding of course. But that might be fun. Really the idea being that every Tuesday I […]
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