Heeere’s Johnny!
We are a decade old!! We can all pretend that we refer to years and not weeks, DON’T ruin this for us! And like any 10 year old, we are ready for halloween! Except unlike them (at least we hope??) we plan to eat our sorrows in chocolate and drink the night away. Oh wait, is that not an appropriate topic? Well, we don’t want to lie to you either 😉
Be afraid, be very afraid. Do you like scary movies? Hopefully you got those references because it IS spooky week (officially and not like Target/Walmart/etc convincing you it starts in September). This week we’re talking about our fav non-alcoholic liquor store (oxymoron?), what your halloween candy REALLY means for the environment, and how Coach is back at it again.
Hopefully this will be a better companion than that horror movie marathon you’re planning to binge– learn to sleep with one eye open! ???? See you in your inbox, every Wednesday.
-Jaclyn + Michelle, Founders
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Jaclyn’s Busy…
- Discovering this new non-alcoholic boutique that sells virgin tequila, rum, bourbon, for a perfectly mellow night. Oh, and they sell CBD waters that knock you RIGHT out.
- Hating Shein even more after seeing them steal Sara Shakeel’s designs
- Reading that Coach promised not to destroy any more excess product, but ????
Michelle’s Busy…
- Loving this young graphic designer who cut men out of the NYT Sports Section (hint: the pages are pretty empty without them)
- Wanting to get a sustainable, skateable house (and by that I mean there is a literal skateboard ramp, for all the cool kids)
- Obsessing over Harvard-graduate Nadya Okamoto who not only founded a company dedicated to ending period poverty BUT ALSO designed a non-cylindrical biodegradable 100% organic cotton tampon that is actually shaped to perfectly fit your vagina (because tampons were invented by men, and it’s about time they got an upgrade.
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ICYMI While You Were Drooling Over Everyone in “Dune”…
- We wanted to DIY our halloween costumes
- We compared our coffee orders to our outfit inspo
Diving Deep: Halloween Candy is an (Delicious) Environmental Nightmare
In the early 2000s, our biggest worries were if our coca-cola lip smackers ACTUALLY tasted like coke, if our mom’s cleaned our juicy couture set, and that someone may be using our halloween candy to harm us. We used to worry that inside our snickers and twix would be glass or rat poison– at least our mothers did. But today, the worry goes a step further, to the outer layer: the wrapper.
We’re banning the straws and the plastic bags, but all those mini candy bars will be littering streets and homes worse than any leaf pile. It is estimated that Americans will spend about $2.6 billion on Halloween candy (2019), which roughly equals 600 million pounds (3.5 per person), and out of all this about $400 million of that candy goes to waste.
But the real nightmare is not how much candy we consume (because who can deny us that chocolatey goodness) but how much waste it creates. Really think about the Halloween candy aisle of your local Target, drugstore, CVS, Walmart, etc and consider all that plastic. You see, candy is wrapped in a plastic/aluminum blend which is almost impossible to recycle. And even if we COULD, the small size of wrappers makes it very difficult to physically recycle at the plant and also is just not worth the trouble of recycling (economically)– meaning most of those candy wrappers end up in the landfill.
The (small, temporary) solution? Look for foil wrapped (hershey’s) or paper boxed (dots) treats as an easy solution. Or of course you can always be one of those “fruit is nature’s candy” type moms. Those candy corns aren’t looking so bad anymore, are they?
See ya next week, same time same place.
