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French artist Claire Basler’s studio at Chateau de Beauvoir

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A post shared by Waste-Ed (@get.waste.ed) on Sep 7, 2020 at 12:00pm PDT

These vases made of recycled cups literally GROW thanks to mushrooms! It's not magic, it's biodesign!

What's the secret? Used coffee cups are collected from coffee shops around London, shredded and made into a paste infused with mycelium, the root system of mushrooms. The mycelium in the paste feeds off the organic matter of the coffee cups and grows into a vase! Nothing goes to waste here, with each vase keeping 42 coffee cups out of the landfill!

With 500 BILLION difficult-to-recycle coffee cups trashed every year, 'Lovely Trash' vases could be the kind of thinking we need! Though, we'd much rather see @starbucks ditch disposable coffee cups for good! 🙏

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Credit: Blast Studio / 'Lovely Trash' via Kickstarter

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This shirt turns into nourishment for plants when it gets worn out 🌱 🐛 #shirt #fastfashion #biodegradable #sustainable #decompo

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A post shared by Sustainability Champions (@sustainabilitychampions) on Sep 1, 2020 at 7:20am PDT

Canadian-Iranian designer Roya Aghighi wants you to imagine your shirt is alive and hopes that people can develop a more intimate relationship with fashion – treating clothes like living things that need our help to survive! 👗🌍⁣

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Named Biogarmentry (@biogarmentry), the clothes are a proof of concept for a textile made with living, photosynthetic cells. Aghighi's biofabricated textiles are living organisms that respirate by turning carbon dioxide into oxygen.⁣

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To make the fabric for Biogarmentry, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a type of single-cell green algae, are spun together with nano polymers. The result, which feels like linen, is "the first non-woven living and photosynthetic textile" ever created.⁣

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Wearers will need to take care of their garment as they would a plant in order to keep it alive, rather than engaging in the environmentally destructive practice of making synthetic clothes and discarding them after a few uses.⁣

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Biogarmentry is activated by being exposed to sunlight. Rather than wash their clothes, the owner would just need to spray them with water once a week.⁣

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After the user is finished with the garment, it can be disposed of via composting. Currently the textile is expected to live for around a month, but this period can be extended if it is cared for properly.⁣

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To know more visit, royaaghighi.com

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Done playing? These kids are turning their old plastic toys into brand new child-sized furniture, all while learning about recycling! It's a great way to tackle the plastic pollution problem and introduce kids to a circular economy while contributing to a sustainable future.

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toilet paper exist 🤦‍♀️

oh in cold weather they had to use wet wipes 😕 compostable wet wipes?

Wipes are NOT for flushing! 2 football fields' worth of them clogged up London's sewer, and it's more common than you think!

Baby wipes, wet wipes, pre-moistened towelettes... whatever you call them, they're a BIG problem. How big? Wipes are responsible for an astounding 93% of sewer blockages in the UK. So what's going on here? Almost all wipes contain plastic that can't biodegrade like toilet paper, and even the wipes advertised as "flushable" definitely aren't! Switch off of these wipes immediately and find a compostable, biodegradable option, or check out reusable alternatives. The toilet is for pee, paper and poop only, folks!

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📸 Reuters / Guardian News and Media / Ruptly

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#wetwipes #singleuseplastic #littering #saveouroceans #savetheocean #oceanlife #marinelife #oceans #oceanpollution #oceanplastic #plasticpollution #turtles #plasticbagban #plasticban #savetheturtles #savethewhales #sustainable #sustainability #zerowaste #plastic #noplastic #saynotoplastic #singleuseplastic #reduce #reuse #recycle #wastefree #GetWasteEd

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Urban green space is coming back to cities faster, and more biodiverse than before! Inspired by a Japanese technique, the new method creates mini-forests in just a few years!

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This package-free store is powering through the pandemic by keeping you and the planet healthy. While many stores have resorted to single-use plastics, @proprietary.gr is helping people slash their plastic use without compromising safety. This is grocery shopping done right, no matter what!

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📸 @proprietary.gr / WZZM

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@plasticfreemermaid is here with some tips and tricks that will get you through #plasticfreejuly with ease! What are you doing to ditch plastics this month? We're going live with @plasticfreemermaid this Friday, 4pm PST, so be sure to tune in to get all of your questions answered by the expert herself! Let's end single-plastics for good!

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📸 @plasticfreemermaid

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12 tons of trash cleaned up from a lake that provides drinking water for 1.5 million people in Stockholm, Sweden! The non-profit @renamalaren works to clear the freshwater lake of toxic chemicals that harm the ecosystem. Thank you, @renamalaren for keeping Mälaren clean!

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📸 @renamalaren / Oskar Swing via Facebook / Jonas Böttiger via YouTube

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Hundreds of boogie boards were removed from the sea thanks to @oceanrecoveryproject! Croyde Bay is a popular UK resort, but the styrofoam threatens marine life who can easily ingest the non-biodegradable particles. Is it time to ban these bad boys in favor of sustainable eco-boards?

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📸 @oceanrecoveryproject

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#upcycle #surfing #surfers #surf #pacificocean #saveouroceans #savetheocean #oceanlife #marinelife #oceans #oceanpollution #plasticpollution #turtles #fishing #savetheturtles #sustainable #sustainability #zerowaste #plastic #noplastic #breakfreefromplastic #saynotoplastic #singleuseplastic #reuse #upcycling #recycle #wastefree #GetWasteEd

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A post shared by Nicole | Sustainability 🌿 (@ecowithnico) on Jul 22, 2020 at 8:18am PDT

⁣So, I’ve seen this statement online for some time now. I believed it too, used it in my essays as a “shocking” statement to open with. But as I’m digging deeper for my dissertation, I am yet to find where this fact stemmed from. There is no credible scientific source, just a lot of different facts & figures being used❗️⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Truth is, the fashion industry is so fragmented that it is impossible to know for certain the % of its pollution and ranking. Breaking this statement down, what does it mean by “polluting”? Chemical pollution? Waterway pollution? Air pollution? 💨💧⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Where do we stop measuring? Because leather is a byproduct of agriculture, the energy used to transport clothing to stores, the electricity in the factories. It is complex. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

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So, what's my point? Surely it doesn’t matter how it ranks; whether its 2nd highest or 12th, right? Getting the facts & figures right is crucial if we as anti-FF advocates want to be taken seriously! Especially when it comes to policy making. ⁣⁣

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We know how bloody awful the industry is - so let’s keep spreading news & articles & keep the conversation alive. But we need to do our research if we’re going to throw facts n figures around. Some useful articles below: ⁣⁣⁣⁣

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This post was inspired by the articles below & @slowlyerin who wrote a really powerful post on this a while ago! ⁣⁣

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https://ecocult.com/now-know-fashion-5th-polluting-industry-equal-livestock/⁣⁣⁣⁣

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jcorpciti.45.17.pdf?seq=1⁣⁣⁣⁣

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So after days of pleading with other countries to spred awareness about the current situation in Serbia, a tweet with a video showing police brutality got spread:

And a lot of the responses were:

Apparently only problems worth talking about are those of first-world countries. And it seems that to a lot of people Europe will always remain just England, France, Germany and Italy. And let all of us living in small countries oppresed by totalitarian regimes rot ig.

I am sick of this selective activism.

And Fuck America.

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A post shared by Waste-Ed (@get.waste.ed) on Aug 3, 2020 at 9:03am PDT

Ending emissions from cars is what this new bold move from British Columbia is all about! Every vehicle sold will be powered by electricity in less than 20 years, but should they go green even sooner?

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ℹ️ gov.bc.ca

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#GetWasteEd #electriccar #electricvehicles #goelectric #greenpower #zeroemissions

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Wipes are NOT for flushing! 2 football fields' worth of them clogged up London's sewer, and it's more common than you think!

Baby wipes, wet wipes, pre-moistened towelettes... whatever you call them, they're a BIG problem. How big? Wipes are responsible for an astounding 93% of sewer blockages in the UK. So what's going on here? Almost all wipes contain plastic that can't biodegrade like toilet paper, and even the wipes advertised as "flushable" definitely aren't! Switch off of these wipes immediately and find a compostable, biodegradable option, or check out reusable alternatives. The toilet is for pee, paper and poop only, folks!

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📸 Reuters / Guardian News and Media / Ruptly

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#wetwipes #singleuseplastic #littering #saveouroceans #savetheocean #oceanlife #marinelife #oceans #oceanpollution #oceanplastic #plasticpollution #turtles #plasticbagban #plasticban #savetheturtles #savethewhales #sustainable #sustainability #zerowaste #plastic #noplastic #saynotoplastic #singleuseplastic #reduce #reuse #recycle #wastefree #GetWasteEd

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