How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compares Globally
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Source: fuckyeahfeministsI am human
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"We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives."
- Will Smith in Parade Magazine on Willow’s hair (via fuckyeahfeminists)
Will Smith I love you so much.
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The world is a better place because John and Hank Green (and the other Green family members) exist.
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"I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. I can even drink it in the middle of the night, and I can sleep. I don’t drink coffee, I don’t drink tea, I drink nothing else."
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Karl Lagerfeld
Clearly we’re cut from the same cloth.
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Upcycling cigarette butts?
Source: unconsumptionIt sounds crazy — and in fact it might sound controversial.
But the folks at Terracycle, known for creative upcycling of big-company consumer waste, have made a deal with … Big Tobacco!
Here’s the thinking, and it’s definitely interesting:
We have been attempting to work with the tobacco industry for some time. And I am happy to say that we recently signed our first and second tobacco deals (both programs will start in a few weeks). One is with Canada’s largest tobacco company, the other with one of America’s largest tobacco companies. Both programs will allow TerraCycle to collect and recycle cigarette butts and other cigarette-related waste.
Regardless of what we think of tobacco, we can all agree that the litter caused by cigarette butts is a major issue. In Texas, the Department of Transportation has estimated that more than 130 million cigarette butts will find their way onto Texas highways this year. Globally, it has been estimated that more than a trillion butts make their way into our environment as discarded waste every year.
Our solution involves separating the paper, tobacco and ash from the filter. The organic materials are then composted properly, leaving the part that looks like white cotton but is actually a form of plastic called cellulose acetate (while this material can be made from organic materials almost all cigarette makers use plastics).
The cellulose acetate is then sanitized and injection-molded into a plastic that can be used for a variety of uses, such as plastic pallets and car berms for factories.
This is awesome! Though, I have been wondering for some time if it would be possible to make a filter that was compostable? Biodegradable? Because even though I love TerraCycle, I am probably not realistically going to collect everyone’s cigarette butts every time we have a party, to send to them.
