Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Sustainable Fashion Starts With Eliminating Toxic Fast Fashion. The use of toxic chemicals threatens the progress of creating a truly sustainable fashion industry. This is exacerbated in the fast fashion industry where there are shorter product life cycles, increased waste, and less consideration for the environment.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science has found that microplastics affect the behavior of hermit crabs, a key part of the ocean ecosystem. The study, conducted by Queen’s University, highlights how microplastics impact hermit crabs’ growth and reproduction. Via Newswise Lead image via Pixabay.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The plastic gift was definitely more than welcome for giant corporations such as Coca cola: Currently the biggest plastic polluter in the world. Let’s look at some facts about the plastic pollution caused by the staple of our Christmas shopping. It often has plastic coatings and microplastics-made glitter on it. Just kidding.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Sustainable Fashion Starts With Eliminating Toxic Fast Fashion. The use of toxic chemicals threatens the progress of creating a truly sustainable fashion industry. This is exacerbated in the fast fashion industry where there are shorter product life cycles, increased waste, and less consideration for the environment.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Textiles and clothing items are notoriously difficult to recycle, and large amounts of old clothing still end up being sent to landfill in the UK each year, where microplastics from synthetic textiles pose a particular problem in polluting waterways.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Fur-free policies have been adopted across several luxury fashion brands and major retailers in recent years, thanks to the spread of both legislation and public education on the realities of animal cruelty. That’s because polyester, nylon and other petroleum-based textile fibers are exacerbating the microplastic pollution crisis.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It is a company with a focus on green design products and a dedication to using proceeds from sales to rid the Earth’s waterways of plastic and other pollution. Related: Adidas 100% recycled jacket is solving plastic pollution PANGEA’s Eco-Jacket is made from 100% recycled materials. of trash from rivers, and 68 lbs.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

Petite Lucette Launches a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Brand . Launched in 2014, Petite Lucette is a sustainable and circular fashion brand founded by French sisters, Anaïs and Clémence. The fashion industry has become the world’s second largest polluter, contributing 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

The spotlight If you’ve read any climate-related news in the past several years, you’re probably familiar with the scourge of microplastics. A study published just last month in the journal Toxicological Sciences tested 62 placentas, and found microplastics, in varying concentrations, in every single one.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2022

Whether from deforestation, intensive farming and pesticide use, polluted rivers and lakes, or the microplastic epidemic swamping the planet's oceans, the planet's ecosystems are facing intensifying threats that further risk undermining the global economy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

A new study from Canadian non-profit Ocean Wise has shown that synthetic fibres, many released from clothing and textiles during domestic laundry, make up a large proportion of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean. The study again underscores the vulnerability of the Arctic to environmental change and to pollutants transported from the south.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

If we want a world that is free of plastic pollution, in line with the ambitions of the United Nations Environment Assembly, we will need to take much more stringent and globally co-ordinated action," said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2022

The sudden spike in oil and gas drilling came with a nearly 60 percent increase in light pollution at the observatory, threatening the work McDonald has been conducting for nearly a century. Seeing the real sky, the old-fashioned way, is still important,” said Hummel. Light pollution has serious impacts outside of astronomy as well.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

Petit Pli is tackling the wasteful and unethical fast fashion industry by extending the lifecycle of clothing, creating children's clothes that ‘grow' as they do. An estimated £140m-worth of clothing enters UK landfill every year, and our unused clothing is worth approximately £30bn. Tyre Collective.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Pollution : Uncontrolled disposal. Leveraging these efficiency gains is fashion retailer Zara. These microplastics accumulate within food chains, harming wildlife and humans.

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