If you’ve ever quietly wondered whether it’s really all that crucial to the environment if you turn down the temperature on your washing machine, or if you ever asked yourself how much of an impact it really made that you switched energy providers, a paper has just been published that might have some answers for you. Available as an open
You might have heard about several campaigns trying to minimize the use of disposable plastic in order to fight ocean pollution. Some of them being about plastic bags, others about (edible) six-pack rings… Those are all good and valid points and a lot of things can be changed by governments or supermarket chains banning plastic or breweries introducing the eco-friendly
I stumbled across this article this morning, which provides an interesting point in the debate about coffee cups. The article’s in German, you can find it on the FAZ website here. The gist of it is, that there aren’t actually any studies analysing how many resources the alternatives to your plastic-coated throw-away paper cups actually consume. Apparently, the production of