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Jessica Paschkes of REFILLERY: “You don’t have to reinvent the wheel”

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A zero-waste shop has fundamental elements that are universal. A few years ago, she began researching the concept of zero-waste, eco-shopping for cleaning products and was blown away by the fact that there were virtually no refilleries in the United States. My new venture is a zero waste, eco-shopping solution called REFILLERY.

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Jeff Yorzyk of HelloFresh: “Don’t Give Up”

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It has been estimated that each year, more than 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. The waste of food is not only a waste of money and bad for the environment, but it is also making vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. What exactly are we talking about when we refer to food waste?

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“Be prepared”, Paul Katzoff and Parveen Panwar, Mr. Activated

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Paul’s mission is to decrease e-waste globally and provide an alternative to physical destruction in the circular economy. His concern for the environment and eliminating impractical waste is his driving passion to work with public and private corporations in updating their drive destruction process. This is a tough question.

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Patrick San Francesco: “Leader should not expect others to follow him”

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One afternoon at a picnic, a friend dropped a plastic (PET) bottle which was full of water on my foot. While ruefully rubbing my foot, I grimaced, thinking that it felt more like a brick than a plastic bottle. “A That was the birth of the world’s first ‘Plastic Bottle-Fishnet House’. A brick?”, on the Richter Scale.

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Why and How Yair Neuman Decided To Change Our World

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With my Lens Lights collection the focus in on informing people about the environmental problem of lens waste that is usually hidden from us as consumers. He is currently working on new editions of objects made of recycled waste from the eyewear industry. Wherever possible, I try to salvage things and rework them into new pieces.

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Deb Porter On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

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I cut my project off the loom, threw it away and left the studio, angry with myself at the wasted time and money. Finally, stop being wasteful. I’m not advocating we go back to handwashing and reusing plastic bags…no. I am saying when you waste resources the company has, the employee doesn’t feel good about it?—?the

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Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee: “Learn how to get along with people”

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Anthony : I picked up a plastic Mickey Mouse guitar that just happened to be tuned to an open chord and it was like getting bit by a bug. Take your time when choosing a spouse (Having bought a marriage license that was about to expire on the day I was leaving to go on tour, in order not to waste the money, we decided to get married that day.