“PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG” -James Brown
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Taking a trip to Kenya? Leave you plastic bags at home or face a $40,000 fine with up to 4 years in prison! Seems a little over the top? Two years ago, the Kenyans suddenly enacted the world’s toughest ban against single-use plastic bags. According to the Kenyans, “A... “IT’S OUR COUNTRY”
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Environment
As the clock runs out on the world’s opportunity to mitigate the climate crisis, the new president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is poised to continue the destruction of the “lungs of the world,” the Amazon Rain Forest. He thinks the environmentalists in his own... by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
According to McKinsey & Company and the Council for Textile Recycling, the world fashion industry produces 100 billion garments for seven billion people each year, the average American throws out 80 pounds of clothes each year, and 85 percent of all apparel ends... PLASTIC OR ALUMINUM
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Environment
A New York Times article released over the weekend, by David Yaffe-Bellany, raises some serious practical questions about water packaging we feel need more consideration. Would you drink water out of a can? Or would you balk because you couldn’t see its clarity? Would... “EAT OUR PLASTIC!”
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Just imagine what it might be like to eat a credit card. Now imagine eating a credit card EVERY WEEK! According to the World Wildlife Fund, humans now ingest the equivalent amount of a credit card in microplastics each week! This happens because microplastics are now...