Conscious Fashion · Sustainable Lifestyle · Exploring California
Reusable shopping bags and straws are pretty ubiquitous now (Yay!). Have you wondered what environmentally-friendly change to make next? Below are seven sustainable swaps I’ve made over the last year. Did you know that a standard plastic toothbrush can take up to 400 years to break down? Every year, about 450 million toothbrushes are sent […]
Fun fact: scientists recently found microplastics in human poop. The plastic originated from consumed fish, which had eaten broken down plastic in the sea. Plastic pollution is an issue that I’ve been reading about lately. Something that was once considered a “wonder material” is now a modern waste problem. I’ve become conscious of the number […]
The Physical Geography course I just completed taught me more about our world and the acute water pollution challenges that confront us. There is an island of rubbish twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean and 99% of seabirds have plastic in their stomachs. The news isn’t all bad – plastic straw bans […]