Bamboo or Recycled Toilet Paper: Which Is Better?
Charmin’s bamboo line and the sustainability darling’s bamboo line score exactly the same grade. Recycled beats both, and the scorecard explains why in one formula.
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Why Don’t Shampoo Bars Lather in Hard Water?
The waxy film everyone calls the transition period has a chemical name. It isn’t your scalp adjusting, and it doesn’t end on its own.
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Do the Recycling Numbers on Plastic Mean Anything?
The little triangle was never a recycling promise, the standard dropped the arrows in 2013, and the industry that put it there has admitted on the record what it was for.
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Are Laundry Detergent Sheets Actually Plastic-Free?
The sheet that dissolves in your washing machine is a polymer film. Whether that matters is one of the few environmental arguments where the campaigning side lost at the regulator.
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Are Bamboo Toothbrush Bristles Actually Biodegradable?
The handle composts. The bristles are nylon, on every brush you can buy, and the best-known brand contradicts itself about them on two of its own pages.
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What Happened to Allbirds?
Allbirds went public in 2021 as the sustainable shoe company. Then the stock collapsed, Nasdaq sent a notice, and it did a 1-for-20 reverse split. Here’s what that means for the shoes.
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Can Old Sneakers Actually Be Recycled?
Reporters hid trackers in shoes donated to a recycling program. The shoes turned up for sale in Indonesian markets. The scandal isn’t quite the one you’d expect.
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Chrome-Tanned vs Vegetable-Tanned Leather
Veg-tan is the one everyone calls the clean option. Per tonne of hide, its wastewater carries several times the organic load of chrome tanning. Both facts matter.
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Is Vegan Leather Just Plastic?
An independent lab cut open the cactus, apple and pineapple leathers and found polyurethane underneath nearly all of it. One brand publishes the number itself.
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Do Cleaning Products Have to List Their Ingredients?
Your toothpaste is legally required to list every ingredient. Your bathroom disinfectant is required to list none, and California specifically excused it.
