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VANCOUVER LANDFILL// The Happiness Placebo. Our rate of consumption is not sustainable.
VANCOUVER LANDFILL// The Happiness Placebo. Our rate of consumption is not sustainable.

We’re sold the message that when we get the right stuff, job, clothes, relationship, we'll be happy. If this were true and stuff held intrinsic happiness, we wouldn't need to keep buying, and producing. Because once you got the thing you’d have happiness forever, you wouldn't need more.

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PLASTIC AND CLOTHING// Fast Fashion. What are you really buying?
PLASTIC AND CLOTHING// Fast Fashion. What are you really buying?

Did you know that in most stores every piece of clothing comes shipped to the store in a plastic bag? Each bag gets removed by staff and goes into the garbage, all before the item hits the sales floor. These bags are not usually recyclable.

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