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When your environmental choices make you stand out at work

Everyone at work brings lunch in disposable containers and I feel ridiculous washing my glass jars in the break room sink, but I also feel complicit when I cave and use paper plates.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual ethical choices become performative and isolating when they highlight collective inaction in shared spaces.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethical consumption?”

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