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Stop Storing Clothes in Plastic Dry Cleaning Bags (and Use This Alternative Instead)
When you pick up items of clothing from the dry cleaner, they typically come in thin, clear, plastic garment bags. Once you get them home, it would make sense to simply pop them in your closet, in the bag. After all, these are pieces of clothing that you’re paying someone else to clean, so they…
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Don’t Throw Away Your Mesh Produce Bags
In a perfect world, we’d all eat seasonally available local produce that we’ve purchased directly from farmers (or farmers’ markets). But that’s not an option for everyone (especially since there are entire neighbourhoods that don’t have access to affordable fruits and vegetables).
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I’m Begging You to Reduce the Waste You Throw Away This Halloween
Spooky season has arrived, and we are here for it. But one thing that weighs on my mind every Halloween — every holiday, really — is the amount of waste it creates. One UK study revealed that more than 2,000 tons of waste are generated yearly from the costumes alone. How can we have all…
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Your Cotton Tote Bags Are Totally Fine
Last week, the New York Times published an article by Grace Cook that got half of Twitter talking about “the cotton tote crisis.” At the centre of this article — and the multiple tweets promoting it — is an alarming statistic: “An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall…