A recent study by the Center for Climate Integrity has unearthed a troubling revelation: major corporations were aware for decades that recycling, as commonly practiced, was not a sustainable solution for waste management.
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In our modern lives, we are bombarded with choices, from what to wear and what to eat to more significant decisions like career paths and environmental actions.
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‘Tis the season to be jolly, but it’s also a time when our environmental footprint tends to grow.
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Ten years since writing our first Rethink article, we re-explore how far things have come, if at all.
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The rising trend to not offer crockery or reusable cups in coffee shops, and even more so since COVID, has once again stirred up the debate: Is a reusable cup more environmentally friendly than a take-away up?
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The Founder of The Expedition Project examines some key decisions over not just the last 10 years, but the 20 years prior to The Expedition Project’s launch.
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The world in a take-away coffee cup
(Written in 2013 before the movement started taking shape)
Have you ever wondered what the ecological and anthropological costs are of our consumer decisions? Can a simple quick consumer decision shape our future? For example, do you know what the hidden financial and health costs are of all those take-away cups that deliver your morning caffeine fix? Put another way, did you realize that the world’s largest coffee chain served 2.3 billion cups of coffee in take-away cups last year, a number that keeps growing annually?
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