Good News Notes: “At more than two million years old and more than a mile above sea level, Lake Tahoe sits on the border of California and Nevada in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains. The water is so pure that it isn’t even required to be filtered by water suppliers, the Tahoe Daily Tribune reported. Despite the remarkable purity of its…
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Common Heir Is on a Mission to Make Plastic-Free Skin Care That Works on All Skin Tones
Good News Notes: “Common Heir — a plastic-free skin-care brand that launched a little over a year ago — isn’t interested in following beauty business as usual. In an industry where terms like ‘sustainability‘ and ‘inclusivity’ are used more often as buzzwords or tokens rather than actionable efforts, the brand, founded by Angela Ubias and Cary Lin, wants…
rePurpose Global Partners with Personal Care Brands to Stamp Out Waste
Good News Notes: “New York-based rePurpose Global, a coalition focused on reducing waste, is collaborating with 100 personal-care brands in more than 15 countries to address plastic pollution. Through the initiative, the partners are removing 4,127 tons of plastic waste per year, the weight of 208 million plastic bottles or 1.8 billion plastic bags. The brands,…
Spanish Brand Hawkers Designs Sustainable Sunglasses
Good News Notes: “A new era of eyewear is on the horizon with Hawkers, a Spanish brand creating eco-conscious sunglasses at an attainable price. With a range of spectacles to choose from, Hawkers has garnered attention among soccer icon Lionel Messi and DJ Steve Aoki who have been seen wearing the brand’s sleek styles. The sustainable…
New discovery: Scientists turn plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring
Good News Notes: “While the world is slowly taking small steps to reduce plastic consumption, it becomes more and more evident how global plastic pollution has alarming effects on humans, wildlife, and the environment. Plastics lose their material value after one use, which is why it is important to find more ways to upcycle them…
Why Upcycling Clothes Is The Hottest Trend You Can Do This Summer
Good News Notes: “‘Sustainability‘ is, without question, the biggest buzzword in fashion at the moment. But with the threat of ‘greenwashing’ – using eco and sustainable terminology without doing the work to ensure verifiable benefit to the planet – on the rise, consumers are having to become more savvy about interrogating their purchases. Upcycling clothes that already exist is…
Will California’s roads soon be made of recycled plastic?
Good News Notes: “Plastic bottles by the side of a road are a common sight, an unseemly reminder of how often consumer products are discarded carelessly. Now some of those bottles may become part of the road. A Northern California company has devised a process that integrates recycled plastic into road repaving, an innovation that…
Caltrans Repaves Roadway with Recycled Plastic Bottles
Good News Notes: “Pilot Project uses 100% recycled material on highway repair Caltrans repaved a section of Highway 162 in Oroville last week using recycled asphalt pavement and liquid plastic made with single-use, plastic bottles, which marks the first time the department has paved a road using 100 percent recycled materials. The pilot project features…
Wearing water bottles? Entrepreneurs create clothes in Tenn. from recycled plastic
Good News Notes: “Eight million plastic water bottles now exist as sustainable clothing, and many pieces were finished in Tennessee. ‘It’s over 8 million right now, and counting more every day,’ said Ryan Moor, CEO of Allmade Apparel. According to Moor, the clothing industry consumes 100 million drums of oil a year to create polyester…
20 Creative Ways to Reuse and Recycle Plastic Bottles
Good News Notes: “50 million plastic bottles are thrown away each day in the United States. They work themselves into just about every aspect of our daily lives. The examples are plentiful, from water bottles to laundry detergent, to how we squeeze out our honey. You’ll likely spot one of the 50 million if you…