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Because we're in the room with these organisations all the time. so, let's just imagine we're a biscuit brand, 0k? we've been for decades making biscuit wrappers that are not recyclable, and now we want to make it recyclable and there's no suitable commercially viable design choices. so, their next best bet is to take voluntary responsibility over that particular waste stream. terracycle says it's on a mission to change the world. i think we can shift and become much more in tune with nature and consuming and thriving in a sustainable way. it says it has strict controls on what it calls its re...

Manufacturers to make a device that last significantly longer than its warranty period this is expensive for the consumer and a waste of energy and resources on the environmental level but the right to repair movement is growing in many countries we joined a global gathering of repairers thinkers and activists in bali. electronic goods are the fastest growing waste stream in the world in less than a decade the lifespan of a television in germany dropped from more than 10 years to less than 6 of the best ways is the ways that you don't produce when you look into the container you see is a reall...

Or a farm. it's every forest that gets chopped down. it's every plastic bag that goes out into the waste stream. it's pesticides. it's cats, house cats kilotons of birds every year. and the stunning number is in one lifetime, since 1970, three billion birds were lost in north america, u.s. and canada. that's 29%. so one in every four birds. and erin, this leads to what scientists call sort of the shifting baseline syndrome, which is you can tell your daughter when i was a girl, there was so much bird song. well, she can't relate to that. she thinks the woods are quiet. and then her generation ...

Fotons from the sun and rainfall. it converts it into sugar. we take the waste stream and a chemical process and we can create a comfortable foam we call sweet folk that trabs carbon out of the atmosphere and locks night the bottom of the shoe. i think this is a way where we internalized what that carbon cost is for the environment instead of just socializing that out to the world and letting other people pay for it in the cost of healthcare and other things. >> i know you got into this business to sell shoes. but also to do so in an environmentally friendly way. if it always possible? do you ...

Put into the waste stream in the first place in less than half the elements the rest of them are never fully recovered so we are basically consuming and throwing away some of these very precious materials they have a range of materials which are regarded in the us as toxic materials lead is one which most people would hear of but they're also cadmium arsenic which people are aware of as a poison mercury and there are others as well which can be detrimental to health so as long as we control the amount that's released to the environment and we do it in a well controlled and environmentally frie...