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Everything you buy is trash | On the New Economy
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Everything you buy is trash… unless…. 15 Oct , 2014. When I worked in the recycling and waste industry, I used to say "everything you buy will end up in a landfill". Upcycling. Isn't part of everyone's vocabulary just yet. I came to the sad realization one day while I was trying to think of new ways to get companies to. Would one day end up in a landfill. So depressing. Images from http:/ everythingisrubbish.co.uk/. Their project is to raise awareness about disposable products- and plastic in particular-...
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Charles Duffy
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Everything You Buy Is Rubbish. Was a collective effort between Billy Turvey, William Gubbins, and myself. The shoes are a response to a brief that asks us to communicate issues raised in the book 10 Billion, by Stephen Emmott. We focused on consumerism and waste as its bi-product, and began trawling the UK shorelines (including the tidal Thames) to find plastic rubbish. We then reconstituted the rubbish to manufacture a consumer product from the product of our consumption. Everything Is Rubbish Website.
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National Ocean Month: Clothing Made From Ocean Plastic | Green Eco Services
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Your One Click Source For All Things Green. You are here: Home. National Ocean Month: Clothing Made From Ocean Plastic. National Ocean Month: Clothing Made From Ocean Plastic. June 8, 2015. Plastic in our oceans is rising. A new study estimates that over 5 trillion plastic particles weighing 268,940 tons are floating in Earth’s ocean. There must be a better way… and there is! Fortunately two companies are committing themselves to reusing beach trash in their fashion lines. An estimated 1,900 microfibers ...
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besser / cendt
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Ideen, wie man Dinge besser machen kann. Dieses Wochenende haben wir die erste Lieferung von „ Etepetete. Eine andere, etwas aufregendere Methode zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelverschwendung ist das Containern. Dieses Wochenende haben wir die erste Lieferung von „Etepetete“ bekommen. Das ist eine Münchner Gemüse-Lieferkiste mit einer Besonderheit: Rein kommt nur Gemüse, dass nicht norm-gerecht ist und daher nicht in. Ich will auf das nächste große Ding am Lech hinaus: ein faires, ökologisches und auch no...
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mode / cendt
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Morgen startet der FCA in seine fünfte Bundesliga-Saison. Diese an sich schon schöne Sache hat den ebenfalls schönen Nebeneffekt, dass den Menschen zum Thema Augsburg inzwischen manchmal mehr einfällt als die olle Puppenkiste. Und Hell Yeah, bald gibt es diese Menschen ja in ganz Europa. Keine Angst, ich werde hier nicht über Fußball schreiben. Auch das Grandhotel Cosmopolis. Hat viel zu Augsburgs neuem, nicht mehr ganz so provinziellem Image beigetragen. Aber auch darum geht es mir nicht. Ein und stelle...
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Zeg maar Wim: Everything you buy is rubbish
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Thursday, April 24, 2014. Everything you buy is rubbish. The people from Everything You Buy Is Rubbish. Made this beautiful video. On how they made the shoe below entirly out of rubbish found on the shore. Bodem van de Noordzee vervuild met plastic. Why this iPhone craze? De vloek van het groene vingertje. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Social experiment started in late 1981. View my complete profile. Norwegian verbs, verb på norsk (bokmål). Convert subtitles: ASS to SRT.
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RuralupstateNY
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Here’s a fascinating — if not exactly uplifting — look at the economics, business, and design strategies that led to our throwaway culture came about: Modern Waste is an Economic Strategy « Discard Studies:. About one third of MSW [municipal solid waste] —food scraps, and to a debatable extent, yard trimmings—are present in pre-modern waste. The rest of modern MSW are disposables: paper, plastics, aluminum, textiles, and packaging. [i]. These changes were supported by a regimen of advertising that telegr...
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umwelt / cendt
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Morgen startet der FCA in seine fünfte Bundesliga-Saison. Diese an sich schon schöne Sache hat den ebenfalls schönen Nebeneffekt, dass den Menschen zum Thema Augsburg inzwischen manchmal mehr einfällt als die olle Puppenkiste. Und Hell Yeah, bald gibt es diese Menschen ja in ganz Europa. Keine Angst, ich werde hier nicht über Fußball schreiben. Auch das Grandhotel Cosmopolis. Hat viel zu Augsburgs neuem, nicht mehr ganz so provinziellem Image beigetragen. Aber auch darum geht es mir nicht. Am Tag vorher ...
wearedesignbureau.com
If The Shoe Fits - Design Bureau
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Inspiring dialogue on design. If The Shoe Fits. Wednesday, October 29th, 2014. Image courtesy of This Is Rubbish. Text by Amanda Koellner. We need to consume less. A lot less. Yet every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly. These are the words of Stephen Emmott, the author of. Whose book predicts what Earth will look like when its population reaches that very number. The words also define the mission of This is Rubbish. The message certainly seems to have been heard. Charitie...
