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Though the larger, general sustainable movement has been around for more than half a century, dealing with the specific issues of waste and resource depletion has been building up for a while.

Global population is growing so quickly that it has quadrupled in the past century, and the planet is projected to exceed 9 billion people by 2050. This will further strain its limited resources and produce even more waste that it doesn’t have the space to handle. All this population growth will rapidly increase the demand for redesigned and sustainably harvested materials that produce little to no waste.

Here in the United States, the federal government has been incapable of passing national standards or regulations around sustainability, leaving most of the policymaking up to the individual states and cities. High-population states like California have taken the lead in addressing environmental regulation around climate change, committing to being carbon neutral by 2045.