If we are to lead impact-driven lives, adopt a mission-driven lifestyle, launch impact-driven businesses and buy products from companies striving to impact our planet for the better, why is everything we purchase still wrapped in plastic? Everywhere we look we see something wrapped in, or made of, plastic.
When I recently heard about ‘mushroom packaging’, and learned about the multiple ways mushrooms are important, including environmentally, it reminded me how our precious Earth provides us with all that we could possibly need. I don’t need to repeat what has been said a million times. The facts speak for themselves. Now, WE ACT. We join forces, gather groups and movements for additional power and momentum, we support organizations, and lead the way for our children.
This IGNYTE Special Issue is all about plastic, and the urgency to modify and adopt new habits. Let’s consider the goods we use in our own households and communities and encourage more sustainable individual practices.
On a wide scale, the conversation begins with businesses producing eco-friendly or green packaging and the eco-conscious brands who are also brand, package, and ship eco-consciously.
A Plastic-Free Environment starts with a discussion about Packaging Materials.
There is an increasing number of companies dedicated to not only shipping their products with recycled and plastic-free materials but they are founded on selling “zero-waste” products.
Global shifts come at a slow pace and this crisis has reached the mainstream audience not that long ago. Styrofoam cups, plastic utensils, bags and straws are banned in many parts of the world now. Small steps have an enormous impact.
Let’s eliminate tons of unnecessary single-use plastic together. Starting now.
You will find lots of info to help you change your habits in the following pages.
On behalf of the IGNYTE Team, we hope you enjoy this issue and engage with our efforts to help save the planet. Sounds cliché? Not anymore.
Brigitte Perreault
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