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The minimalist home goods, apparel, and food chain enacts a plan to be more environmentally conscious.
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Increasing numbers of the nationally protected species are being affected by plastic bag consumption.
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
Most couples would jump at the chance to have a free professional portrait taken, but what if the price for the picture was being put in a vacuum-sealed bag by someone you just met in a bar?
Seems like that would be a hard sell, but apparently Haruhiko Kawaguchi, otherwise known as Photographer Hal, has a way with words, because he’s photographed hundreds of strangers sealed in plastic on his search to capture the greatest theme in human life: love.
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