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There isn't one aspect of the business that hasn't been a cause for concern for environmental or public-health groups. Whether the ingredients in the actual product, the manufacturing of the plastic packaging that carries it or the use of virgin-paper outer packaging is at issue depends on which organization is complaining. A small group of organic and eco-conscious brands, like European labels Weleda and Dr. Hauschka and Australia's Jurlique, has been catering to an increasingly savvy group of green-minded consumers in the U.S. for decades. But most of the more commercially available luxury...
...support of environmental organizations is one way to address the problem. Reducing the actual damage is another. "There have been some noble efforts," says Hershkowitz, citing as an example cosmetics-brand-driven recycling programs that encourage customers to return used packaging. "But it's not the disposal of the plastic container that causes the big environmental impact. It's the production of the bottle. The coal, the gas, the coloring agents, the heavy-metal stabilizers, the refining of the petroleum to make the plastic containers?it all creates a tremendous amount of toxic air emissions...
...from the same embroidered fabric. He welcomed me into his modest rented home on the eastern edge of Accra, pumping my hand with the energy and strength of a man 20 years younger. The inside walls of his living room were painted electric blue, and a gold vase of plastic flowers sat on the coffee table. There was a small television in the corner, and a telephone that mewed like a cat when someone rang. More than once on my visits in April, and again last August, Kwame repeated an adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: there...
...construct.INTO THE VAULTSA short walk through the Fogg’s galleries encompasses most of the collection’s most talked-about paintings. To see the most talked-about paint, however, a trip upstairs is required.In the laboratory on the top floor, a few small pieces of plastic are grouped on the desk of Narayan Khandekar, the senior conservation scientist at Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation. They’re inconspicuous and easy to pass over, but these plastic cubes contain the kernel of a raging art-world debate.“If you look...
What looks like an igloo but acts like an athletic field? Obviously, it’s Harvard’s latest nod to Inuit culture, a giant athletic facility that looks like it’s made of ice. Sitting in the middle of Harvard Stadium, this silver plastic structure, dubbed “the bubble” by its devotees, encloses the stadium’s turf and is part of a general plan to improve the crumbling football stadium. Unfortunately for the those used to the brick charm of the Ivory Tower, the bubble is sadly lacking...