Glyphosate is a heavily-used chemical weed killer and has been identified by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. The State of California also recognizes it as a chemical known to cause cancer. Introduced onto the market in 1974, it was sold for decades by
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With the holidays around the corner gift mania has begun. For any retailer the busiest time is during the holiday season. All I can think of is the waste it will produce from gift wrapping to senseless gifts for the sake of gifting.
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Agriculture is the largest cause of global environmental change today. It's responsible for deforestation, desertification, damage to coastal reefs and marine ecosystems and climate change.
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For the month of July, millions of people across 177 countries have pledged to cut down on the amount of plastic they use. That can be going without single-use plastic for one day, one week or the entire month. The Plastic Free July movement started in Australia in 2011 and has been growing steadily ever
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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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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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I was very excited to learn about a new clean beauty trend called Blue Beauty I read about in an Elle article. Compared to Green Beauty, Blue Beauty goes a step further. It revolves around the affect packaging has on our marine life, water wastage and minimizing the damage we inflict on our oceans.
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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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