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Review: Pursesuitz Pocketwear Tank

Shereen Travels Cheap

If you're on one of those budget airlines and have to limit yourself to a personal item size, this tank can help you hold more things on your person when a purse or belt bag would count as a second bag and cost you extra money. There's so many reasons you'll want to have one or more of these comfy tanks in your closet.

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Why You Should Live Green

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the studies that included them systematically, food and drink, transport and housing are consistently the most important areas – across both different studies and the different impact categories compared (global warming, acidification, photochemical ozone formation, and eutrophication).

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On Environmentalism Becoming Consumerism

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Those machines use plastic coffee pods that are often labeled as being recyclable – but only if you fully wash them out, take them apart, and separate all the pieces… which we know no one is doing. These are no more green than just recycling that pile of paper. Biodegradable trash bags. Paper shredders. Disposable diapers.

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How Denim Can Be Bad For The Environment

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They tumble them around in giant tumblers full of volcanic pumice rocks and stones, push them sanding machines, or blast them with silica dust. And while denim is recyclable into wall insulation, most everyone just throws the jeans away, heads to the store, and repeats the cycle, over and over again. How do manufacturers do that?

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