Inside a Powerful New Campaign to "Unplastic" Our Homes and Daily Routines
Grove Collaborative has teamed with the Oceanic Preservation Society to debut The Unplastic Shop, a curated marketplace of roughly 500 vetted, high‑performance household items. The collection adheres to rigorous standards that ban any plastic contact with food, eliminate BPA, BPS, BPF, PFAS and other endocrine‑disrupting chemicals, and prioritize reduced‑plastic packaging. The launch is anchored in a broader "Unplastic Your Life" campaign that highlights alarming exposure data—such as infants ingesting 160 times more microplastics than adults and a single plastic tea bag releasing up to 1.2 billion particles. Grove offers a Plastic Playbook and a Netflix documentary to help consumers overhaul their homes and routines.
The Resale Paradox: How Sports Culture Is Driving Both Circularity--And Consumption
Resale platforms such as Depop and Poshmark are now embedded in the sports arena, where fan‑driven merchandise fuels a booming secondhand market. ThredUp projects the global resale sector to reach $367 billion by 2029, growing 2.7 times faster than overall apparel. Sports...