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“Appropriate places for [refuse] are becoming scarcer year by year, and the question as to some other method of disposal...must soon confront us. Already the inhabitants in proximity to the public dumps are beginning to complain.”

–Health Officer’s report, Washington, D.C., 1889, http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm

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“As most people don’t know the actual strength of the alginate, they often think we put some extra glue inside, but it is only seaweed and paper.”

–Jonas Edvard, Designer, 2015, Seaweed and paper combine to create furniture (Dezeen)

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“I was an Environmental Studies major in College and have always been interested in the environment, but I made the conscious decision to live Zero Waste in 2012 when a fellow Environmental Studies classmate would bring lunch to class every week in a sin-gle use plastic bag, a disposable water bottle, and a plastic takeout container.”

–Lauren Singer, 2012, Trash is for Tossers

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“She recalled one event where a happy man held his repaired object over his head as he left and called out: ‘I can’t believe the guy who built the Mars Rover just fixed my electric shaver!’”

–Nita Lelyveld, 2015, Writing about the Repair Cafe in Pasadena, CA for the LA Times

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“Biomimicry is a beautiful way of framing the design process to be cognizant of how nature does things. I think that over the centu-ries humans have become a little egotistical in trying to bend materials and things to our will.”

–Dr. John Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, 2011, “Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future”, Popular Science

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“...the fashion supply chain is so confoundingly opaque and com-plex, that even if you buy a purse that was handcrafted by a Peru-vian artisan, the leather tannery might still have poisoned the local river, and the cows that provided the leather might have been abused.”

–Alden Wicker, 2017, “10 Things You Can Do to Shop More Sustainably”, Racked.com

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“Everyday about 270,000 trees are effectively flushed down the toilet or end up as garbage around the world, such a use of the forests is both wasteful and unnecessary.”

–Duncan Pollard, Head of WWF’s European Forest Programme, 2005, Global Forest & Trade Network

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“You know the thing that really makes [the food] good? I think half of the joy is that things taste better when you make them your-self, and they taste doubly bet-ter when you’ve hunted the animal yourself... You feel more connect-ed to what you’re doing and what you’re eating.”

–Mark Zuckerberg, 2016, Facebook Live Video

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“A homeless guy pricked me with a syringe once, and I got quite a few rashes from picking up dirty stuff in corners that people had pissed on.”

–Tim Noble on collecting materials for his shadow puppet artwork in east London, 2015, “Artists who turn trash into treasure — and the people who buy it”, Financial Times

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“People said we lived like ‘hippies in the woods’ and ‘it’s disgusting’ what we’re doing to our children, depriv-ing them. My husband and I laughed and thought, can we call our kids are deprived because we take them to restaurants, not McDonalds, or sky-diving instead of getting cheap birth-day presents!?”

–Bea Johnson, 2017, Interview with therachelianreport.com

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Sea Me Furniture by Nienke Hoogvliet

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The Terroir Project by Jonas Edvard and Nikolaj Steenfatt

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Seaweed cladding by Vandkunsten Architects

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Marine Light by Nir Meiri

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Laser-cut kelp lampshades by Julia Lohmann

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Seaweed 3D Printing Polymer, Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros

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Two NYC streets before and after garbage pick-up was facilitated, 1895, Collector’s Weekly

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Bleached skin as a result of leather tanning, TrustedClothes.com

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Bangladesh Factory Collapse

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Overhead image of impact of fracking on Wyoming landscape