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Stainless Steel Bottle Recycling or Definitely Not
The problem about the solder used to create the vacuum on stainless steel bottles from Buoy's perspective becomes that you've taken stainless steel, which is widely assumed to be perfectly...
Stainless Steel Bottle Recycling or Definitely Not
The problem about the solder used to create the vacuum on stainless steel bottles from Buoy's perspective becomes that you've taken stainless steel, which is widely assumed to be perfectly...
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How FDA Requires Food-Grade Recyclers to Prove ...
This is an overflow from my last installment about testing of recycled plastic and the misinterpretation of that information. I promised that I'd include details about how recyclers have to...
How FDA Requires Food-Grade Recyclers to Prove ...
This is an overflow from my last installment about testing of recycled plastic and the misinterpretation of that information. I promised that I'd include details about how recyclers have to...
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Burn the Lifeboats! Misdirection about Recycled...
The idea that we must make a world where every item is purged of any signs of life indulges the kind of purity concept that will ultimately burn this place...
Burn the Lifeboats! Misdirection about Recycled...
The idea that we must make a world where every item is purged of any signs of life indulges the kind of purity concept that will ultimately burn this place...
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How Much Methane Comes out of Compostable Conta...
How much methane comes out of compostable containers in a landfill. Having not found a good reference, I decided to just brute-force my way into an estimate. This entry is...
How Much Methane Comes out of Compostable Conta...
How much methane comes out of compostable containers in a landfill. Having not found a good reference, I decided to just brute-force my way into an estimate. This entry is...
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Green or Greenwashing: The Incentive Problem wi...
An article in The New Yorker, which is well worth reading in full, does a deep dive into one of the most established players in the carbon exchange business: South Pole....
Green or Greenwashing: The Incentive Problem wi...
An article in The New Yorker, which is well worth reading in full, does a deep dive into one of the most established players in the carbon exchange business: South Pole....
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Shouldn't We Make Everything out of Stainless S...
You can imagine that the Buoy crew gets into some pretty deep conversations about reuse, recycling, materials and carbon impact with sustainability officers and other folks who know what they...
Shouldn't We Make Everything out of Stainless S...
You can imagine that the Buoy crew gets into some pretty deep conversations about reuse, recycling, materials and carbon impact with sustainability officers and other folks who know what they...
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Throwaway Culture, 2.0
There’s a video posted on LinkedIn where a woman shows the camera a Brita pitcher, the kind with the built-in filter holder. The post says something about microplastics. She wags...
Throwaway Culture, 2.0
There’s a video posted on LinkedIn where a woman shows the camera a Brita pitcher, the kind with the built-in filter holder. The post says something about microplastics. She wags...
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Microplastics and Migration, A Response to a Qu...
Someone on Instagram asked the following question, "I love what you’re doing! I just wanted to ask if your bottles have been tested for microplastic shedding or migration into water...
Microplastics and Migration, A Response to a Qu...
Someone on Instagram asked the following question, "I love what you’re doing! I just wanted to ask if your bottles have been tested for microplastic shedding or migration into water...
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I heard that recycling is broken. Why do we rec...
We as consumers saw the recycling signs and thought that it was magically going off to China and coming back as an iPhone and when we were told that was...
I heard that recycling is broken. Why do we rec...
We as consumers saw the recycling signs and thought that it was magically going off to China and coming back as an iPhone and when we were told that was...
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The Microplastic Panic: Letter to a Wonderful T...
A teacher at my kids school was giving a presentation on a general topic and as an aside mentioned a high level of concern about how microplastics were in us...
The Microplastic Panic: Letter to a Wonderful T...
A teacher at my kids school was giving a presentation on a general topic and as an aside mentioned a high level of concern about how microplastics were in us...
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Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
There’s an often repeated stat about microplastics that says we consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. You read other articles saying that plastic is toxic. Both of these things can’t be...
Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
There’s an often repeated stat about microplastics that says we consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. You read other articles saying that plastic is toxic. Both of these things can’t be...
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Why Do We Use Ocean Bound Plastic to Make Buoy ...
Like most things worth doing, the real work here is boring. It involves building waste infrastructure that looks a lot like the infrastructure in your hometown
Why Do We Use Ocean Bound Plastic to Make Buoy ...
Like most things worth doing, the real work here is boring. It involves building waste infrastructure that looks a lot like the infrastructure in your hometown
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Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
Part of our mission at Buoy is to educate the public about the science and ecological impact of plastics, with the goal of giving people a way to navigate the...
Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
Part of our mission at Buoy is to educate the public about the science and ecological impact of plastics, with the goal of giving people a way to navigate the...
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Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
In installment one, here, we looked at how the processes of life and the characteristics of geology work together to produce petroleum, pictured below. Petroleum / Oil To make chemicals,...
Understanding Plastics for Humans, Installment ...
In installment one, here, we looked at how the processes of life and the characteristics of geology work together to produce petroleum, pictured below. Petroleum / Oil To make chemicals,...
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The Joy of Being a Pro-Recycling Company in an ...
It is now common knowledge that plastic producers cynically pushed recycling as a way of alleviating consumer concerns about the amount of waste they were creating. Curbside recycling fostered this delusion that...
The Joy of Being a Pro-Recycling Company in an ...
It is now common knowledge that plastic producers cynically pushed recycling as a way of alleviating consumer concerns about the amount of waste they were creating. Curbside recycling fostered this delusion that...
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Shouldn’t We Make Everything out of Stainless S...
In the interest of giving readers the value of understanding both sides of this discussion without having to search out the opposing point of view elsewhere, I want to start...
Shouldn’t We Make Everything out of Stainless S...
In the interest of giving readers the value of understanding both sides of this discussion without having to search out the opposing point of view elsewhere, I want to start...
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