Why should anyone bother about hemp-based garbage bags? Two reasons (both perhaps already quite well known to you): We are using too many garbage bags.  Every garbage bag that is made from plastic, will stick around in some form, for anything between 10 and 20 years.  Let’s dig a bit deeper. Here’s a hemp garbage […]

The fashion industry is among the biggest polluters on the planet. The sector accounts for more than one-tenth of the total plastic pollution in the world.  But wait — what does plastic have to do with fashion?  Well, 70% of all clothes contain plastics, as they are made from synthetic materials like polyester or acrylic. […]

Europe, summer of 2023. The lifeblood of trade, the mighty Rhine River… reduced to a trickle. Cargo ships have to shed their weight to even stay afloat. It’s the worst drought in half a millennium, and it’s not an isolated incident. Wildfires ravage California. Floods devastate Pakistan. The list goes on. These headlines are