For #WomensHistoryMonth we’re featuring inspiring women who are working toward a more sustainable world.
Next in our series is a piece from Freedom Gupta-Fonner, CEO of Spring, a company re-engineering farm to table supply chains without any waste.
https://t.co/nIxMNCOmin
@ShaanVP We are! https://t.co/y55HWeJmeF: end-to-end disposable packaging free grocery delivery service. Farmers, producers pack in our reusable containers that are cleaned before being recirculated back into the system. #MakeTrashHistory#CardboardANDPlasticFree
When everyday people and communities have the muscle, tools and resources to lobby, solving humanity's fundamental problems will be a norm. What seems impenetrable and impossible will be how business is done.
https://t.co/YmnmAty9Of
#Organize#MakeTrashHistory#BigBusiness
Fantastic piece from the NYT. The last line should have been the first line though! #Priorities#MakeTrashHistory#ZeroWaste
“The best thing you can do environmentally is not create any waste in the first place.”
https://t.co/r4HOdWOTRG
If you look at the first graphic, you will get a "sliver" of the American trash epidemic. Yet if you read #NatGeo's story, you will not see any mention of US/Canada being a major contributor to the world's trash epidemic.
#CutTheCrap#Redesign#AnAmericanProblemToo
Same is true for the United States. We are only 4% of the world's population but contribute more than 12% to the world's solid waste. Plastic pollution is not a "third world problem." We have got to look within!
#MakeTrashHistory#MakeExtinctionsHistory#CutTheCrap
New @OceanaCAN report shows Canada contributes disproportionately to the global plastic disaster.
“Plastic that is made to last forever is created, used once & then immediately disposed of," Oceana's Kim Elmslie to @MktsInsider: https://t.co/s8sgtDE40O #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Three forces needed to solve our trash epidemic and, in turn, protect our land, water and air: Product designers, Engineers and Lawmakers. More on this in our recent hang out with @GA. Check it out: https://t.co/qfdsPxzpHL
#MakeTrashHistory#Systems#CircularEconomy