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The New Vegan Leather – 100% Plant 0% Plastic – And It’s Sustainable!

Mirum has therefore been designed with the core fundamentals of being fully biodegradable and 100% recyclable. This means that not only does Mirum contain no petrochemicals but it fits nicely into the circular system. In other words, Mirum is manufactured, used, returned to NFW, disassembled, and then reassembled into fresh Mirum material. Any Mirim not returned to NFW will return to the soil and biodegrade naturally, releasing its nutrients back into the soil. In this way no inputs are lost, extra CO2 is not created and the conditions for a circular system are met.

Bidets – An Affordable And Sustainable Way To Reduce Deforestation?

At present, Americans use close to 8 million tons of toilet paper every year, and forests are being decimated in line with demand. We cannot simply cut these forests down and expect no consequences. Nor can we replant the areas with a single species of tree and then manage the wildlife within it and call it a fair exchange. I believe that the use of bidets can reduce this consumption and in doing so reduce deforestation significantly.

Are Plastic-Eating Bacteria Solving Our Plastic Pollution Problem?

In 2016 Japanese scientists researching landfill sites made the first discovery of a new strain of bacteria. This bacteria was eating its way through plastic! In 2019 a study into the biodegradation of plastic films by marine consortia discovered unidentified microbes in the pits of ocean going plastic...