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It's Raining Plastic: How Microplastics Fall From the Sky

Introduction: We tend to think of microplastic exposure as something that happens indoors - from our food packaging, our cookware, our clothing. But some of it is coming from a source you can't con...

10 Amazon Clothing Swaps People Are Making Since Learning Laundry Is the #1 Source of Ocean Microplastics

There's a stat that's been making the rounds and stopping people mid-scroll: one load of synthetic laundry can shed anywhere from 700,000 to 12 million microfibers, and laundry is now considered th...

10 Water Filtration Products People Are Actually Switching To (After the Bottled Water Study Went Viral)

In early 2024, a Columbia University study published in PNAS found that a single liter of bottled water contains around 240,000 detectable plastic particles - 10 to 100 times more than previous est...

10 Bedroom Swaps People Are Making Once They Learn What "New Mattress Smell" Actually Is

That smell a brand-new mattress has straight out of the box isn't nothing - it's off-gassing, the release of volatile organic compounds from the foam, adhesives, and flame-retardant chemicals used ...

10 Bathroom Products People Switched To After Reading Their Own Ingredient Labels

Two things happened in the last few years that changed how a lot of people shop for their bathroom. First, in 2021, an independent lab called Valisure found benzene - a known carcinogen - in over a...

10 Non-Toxic Kitchen Swaps Everyone's Suddenly Making (After Watching the Cutting Board Video)

If you've been on TikTok in the last year, you've probably seen it: the 12-million-view video showing exactly how many microplastic particles a plastic cutting board sheds into your food with every...

The Microplastic-Free Kitchen: What to Swap First

Introduction: The kitchen is where most people's microplastic exposure quietly concentrates. It's the room where plastic meets heat, oil, and sharp edges - the exact conditions that cause synthetic...

What Polyester Actually Does to Your Skin All Day

Introduction: Most people never think about what their clothes are made of - only how they look and feel in the first few minutes of wearing them. But the fabric against your skin is there for the ...

You're Working Out in a Water Bottle

Introduction: Walk into any gym and look around: the vast majority of what people are wearing is plastic. Polyester, nylon, and spandex dominate the activewear market, marketed as high-performance,...

The 5 Swaps That Remove the Most Microplastics From Your Day

Introduction: Most people who want to reduce their exposure to microplastics run into the same wall: there's so much conflicting advice that they either do nothing, or pour energy into changes that...