Special Road Trip - Life Lab
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The Importance of Sustainability
This is our fifth and final episode of LifeLab, our series about how tiny life can change everything. In the last episode we heard about a future where we wear wild new clothes made by biology. We're talking spider silk in mushroom leather so listen to that episode if you haven't already. But fashion is only one piece of how we could make a better future on our planet. The world produces over 100 million barrels of oil every day. Some becomes gasoline to drive your car and some becomes plastics. Polyester is a plastic and then it goes into your clothes. Oil also helps make the ingredients for a surprising number of things: Like makeup crayons, candles, band-aids
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