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OPINION: Marie Kondo’s New Online Store Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Our Consumer Culture
Marie Kondo selling useless things online sparks no joy for our planet.
Marie Kondo, the pint-sized Japanese personality that achieved global fame including a New York Times bestselling book and a Netflix show, has launched an online!-->!-->!-->…
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15 Genius Eco & Upcycled Christmas Decoration Ideas To Put Up This Year
Every Christmas, we generate huge amounts of water, greenhouse cases and paper waste. If we all try to reduce our eco-footprint a little bit, it could go a long way! Before you buy any mixed material tinsel, new ornaments and battery!-->…
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Clean Skincare Brand Kinship Debuts Traceable Ocean Plastic Waste Packaging
In what appears to a world first, US brand Kinship has just launched a new skincare line with packaging made from traceable ocean plastic waste. In line with the global consumer trend demanding that businesses offer products that consist!-->…
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Sustainable Secondhand Christmas Is Around The Corner, Says B-Stock Report
According to the world’s largest online B2B platform for returned and excess consumer items, B-Stock Solutions, the secondhand apparel market is growing 21 times faster than the primary market, making secondhand gifts a likely trend this!-->…
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Keep Your Used Mascara Wands Out Of The Landfill & Help Save Orphaned Wildlife
Wands For Wildlife, an initiative by non-profit animal rehabilitation centre Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, lets you donate your used mascara wands to help save orphaned animals. Not only will you be giving injured and orphaned animals a!-->…
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BREAKING: WeWork Backtracks On Meat Ban, Serves Pork Soup & Bacon Sandwiches At 2 Singapore Locations
It's been a tough few months for co-working behemoth WeWork. After a failed IPO that resulted in a barrage of negative press and shocking headlines, Green Queen can exclusively share that the company, previously valued at US$ 49 billion,!-->…
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Zero Waste History: The Humble Origins Of The Shampoo Bar
Before modern liquid shampoo became widespread, hair care routines didn’t involve so much plastic waste. Now, we are conditioned (!) to believe we need liquid shampoo in plastic bottles that usually get disposed of rather than refilled,!-->…
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Shoppers Are Buying More Sustainable Goods Across Every Product Category
According to new research from the Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) at New York University, consumers are purchasing more sustainable products than ever before. Rather than being a niche sector trend, researchers found that this was!-->…
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Argentina To Replace China As World’s Dumping Ground For Plastic Waste
In August this year, Argentina changed its definition of what counts as “waste”, a move that could enable the import of millions of tonnes of low-grade plastic waste scraps discarded in the United States. Environmental campaigners have!-->…
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Upcycled UK Fashion Brand BOTTLETOP Debuts Concept Store Made From Recycled Materials At K11 MUSEA
British luxury fashion brand creating upcycled accessories, BOTTLETOP, has just opened its first Hong Kong store in Tsim Sha Tsui’s newest mall K11 MUSEA. While not the first time the company has forayed outside of the UK with pop-ups in!-->…
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The Global Plastic Crisis In Numbers: 10 Shocking Facts You Need To Know
The plastic crisis is one of the biggest challenges that our planet is facing, and one that desperately needs to be tackled, especially if we want to save the fate of our oceans. Currently, millions of tonnes of plastic ends up in the!-->…
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Future Fashion Lab: Hong Kong’s First Sustainable Apparel Industry Festival
Future Fashion Lab, initiated by DBS in collaboration with Hong Kong’s upcycling fashion company Fashion Clinic, will be popping up this November in Wanchai’s Kapok and The Mills in Tsuen Wan. This will mark the city’s first sustainable!-->…
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Eco Tourism Guide: 10 Ways To Be A Responsible World Traveler
We are travelling more than we have ever before, especially right here in Asia. According to a 2019 World Travel Monitor report, outbound travel from Asia rose by 6% since the beginning of the year, making the region the largest growth!-->…
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Don’t Spook The Planet: 8 Eco-Friendly Tips For A Greener Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner! While Halloween is always a good excuse for a whole lot of fun and games, it usually produces a scary amount of waste. To avoid being too spooked out by your eco footprint this year, check out our green!-->…
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Patagonia Founder Yves Chouinard: “Capitalism Will Lose Its Customers”
In an exclusive interview with Fast Company, the 80-year-old founder of iconic outdoor apparel brand Patagonia Yvon Chouinard made a damning case against the current capitalist system that is driving unsustainable practices in the midst of!-->…
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Birkenstock Launches Refillable Sustainable Cork Skincare Product Line
German footwear brand Birkenstock has just released its Natural Skin Care products, infused with the company’s iconic material: cork. The shoemaker has expanded to skincare after realising that a substance in cork oak contains!-->…
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Where To Find Bulk, Refillable & Plastic-Free Household Cleaning Products In Hong Kong
Many of us are taking steps to live more sustainably, but are overlooking a major culprit of household waste? Cleaning products are a large source of ocean and landfill waste, and some figures say that the average household throws away!-->…
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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group To Eliminate Single-Use Plastics By 2021
Global luxury hospitality group Mandarin Oriental Hotels has pledged to phase out all single-use plastics across its entire portfolio by March 2021. This follows recent moves by the group to remove plastic straws and single-use drinking!-->…
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If 20% Rich Countries Went Vegan & Cut Food Waste, We Could End Global Warming By 2050
In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, if just one in five of us in richer countries went nearly vegan and disposed one third less food, we could be looking at carbon absorption by 2050 as opposed to global warming.!-->…
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Tech Startup Curbing Commercial Food Waste Winnow Raises US$12 Million Series B Funding
United Kingdom-based startup Winnow, creator of a smart device to help commercial kitchens cut down on food waste, has just disclosed a Series B funding round of US$12 million. Since its inception, the company’s tool has helped to save!-->…
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Green Queen Joins Forces With #Togetherband Campaign On UN SDG Dinner Series To Raise Awareness For #GlobalGoals
We are thrilled to share that British sustainable luxury brand Bottletop’s #Togetherband initiative will be joining forces with Green Queen’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Dinner Series to support and promote global!-->…
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