What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part III: The Poison Plastic and Why “Recycling Will Not Save Us”
Even if we could recycle plastics effectively at scale, does it make sense to recycle a toxic plasti c like Luxury Vinyl Tile?
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What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part II: How LVT Supply Chains Are “Built on Repression”
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What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part I: The Dirty Secret Behind a DIYer’s Dream Material
Behind the slick rebrand and influencers' stamp of approval, LVT manufacturers are hiding a more sin ister side of the popular material.
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What do Plastic and Paint have in Common? Everything.
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Hempcrete Revolution: How “Pot’s Benevolent Cousin” Is Staging its Comeback Through Architecture
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Fight Back with Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Help Solve the Global Housing Crisis
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