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    The Evolution of Eco-Friendly Period Products

    The Evolution of Eco-Friendly Period Products

    Let’s state the obvious: Your favorite time of the month isn’t when you get your period. The cramps don’t help, but buying loads of pricey products isn’t a blast, either. But another aggravation arises for those who try to live sustainable lives: the environmental cost. According to multiple sources, North American women are believed to […]

    9 Ways to Be an Eco-Friendlier Grocery Shopper

    9 Ways to Be an Eco-Friendlier Grocery Shopper

    When we consider how to cut down on waste and lower our personal environmental impact, evaluating our grocery-shopping habits plays an important role. A whopping 30-40% of all food in the United States is wasted each year, a considerable portion of which is connected with grocery retail. According to the EPA, food containers and packaging […]

    Here’s What Happens When You Eat From Plastic Containers

    Here’s What Happens When You Eat From Plastic Containers

    Drinking water is supposed to be good for you, but what happens when you diligently carry that disposable water bottle around all day, to remind yourself to take a sip? With that sip, you take in an undue amount of plastic, according to recent research. And that’s not all. Takeout cartons, shelf-stable wrapping, those water […]

    How Your Plastic Razor Impacts the Environment

    How Your Plastic Razor Impacts the Environment

    Although it’s convenient, single-waste plastic is plaguing our planet. Thankfully, some people are looking to reduce their plastic consumption. If you’re one of them, you may face a crossroads with the complicated plastic razor. Though not categorized as “single-use,” billions of plastic razors end up in landfills each year. Razors are sharp objects that can’t […]

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    Coffee has enormous cultural significance. It’s a staple of culture, cuisine, and everyday life for people all over the planet. Americans alone consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, and the crop is a highly traded commodity of huge importance to global economies. These millions of cups aren’t without consequence, however. The growing, processing, […]

    PPE May Save Human Lives, But It’s Deadly for Wildlife

    PPE May Save Human Lives, But It’s Deadly for Wildlife

    By Reynard Loki One of the most distinguishable features of the COVID-19 era is the public, everyday use of personal protective equipment (PPE), mainly in the form of disposable face masks and latex gloves. And while these thin layers protect us and others from transmitting and contracting SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the lower […]

    The Recycling Industry in America Is Broken

    The Recycling Industry in America Is Broken

    Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. According to The National Museum of American History, this popular slogan, with its iconic three arrows forming a triangle, embodied a national call to action to save the environment in the 1970s. In that same decade, the first Earth Day happened, the EPA was formed and Congress passed the Resource Conservation and […]