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How To Find An Organic Mattress And Make Your Bedroom More Sustainable

It's suspected that polyurethane foam found in some mattresses is a source of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. Made from ingredients derived from fossil fuels, polyurethane is highly combustible and therefore often treated with flame-retardants that have serious health and environmental impacts. I don’t know about you, but it’s deeply unsettling to think I might

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What Is A Circular Economy?

Plastic pollution and the degradation of natural ecosystems are among the greatest environmental challenges we are facing today. Massively responsible for the depletion of our planet’s resources is our current “linear” economy, which extracts, turns resources into products and then disposes of them. This cycle is also called “take-make-waste.” E.g. You buy a t-shirt, wear

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Earth Day Is Every Day

50 years ago the first Earth Day in 1970 marked the launching of the modern environmental movement. It was a collective response to environmental issues such as oil spills, air and water pollution. An estimated 20 million people in America alone took to the streets on behalf of the environment and demanded a new way

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A Plastic-free Solution: Tru Earth Eco-friendly Laundry Detergent

I came across a company called Tru Earth. They sell laundry detergent in form of strips named Tru Earth Eco-Strips. Each strip packs ultra-concentrated, hypoallergenic, eco-friendly cleaning power into a tiny, pre-measured strip of detergent that you just toss in the wash. Its low-sudsing formula works in all types of washing machines, including high-efficiency (HE).

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