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Ok, I'll say it. How much more could have apple have paid their low-level employees for Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer's time? Guaranteed it wasn't free.

Good for them. I'm not sure how using a byproduct of an existing and entrenched industry is somehow less sustainable than crafting new bands from petroleum products, but I'm just an engineer. All part of the narrative, I suppose. For instance, Ben Lovejoy over at 9to5's profound and prophetic headline how "Apple dropping leather could help end the premium image of the material". LVMH begs to differ.

What does leaving the EU have to do with school building projects?

From the standpoint of margins, this makes perfect sense. From a sustainability perspective, it makes absolutely no sense. Why tout your vehicle, for instance (looking at you, Tesla and Volvo), as being sustainable when you're using carbon-derived plastics for the seats instead of leather, the former not being recyclable? No one on earth raises a cow for the sole purpose of using its skin, and there are plenty of plant-based dyes that do not contain "forever" chemicals.

How to tell your friends you have way too much time on your hands.