Imagine that you are constantly eating, but slowly starving to death. Hundreds of species of marine mammals, fish, birds, and sea turtles face this risk every day when they mistake plastic debris for food.

Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That's obvious enough. But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change. Going veggie can drastically reduce your carbon footprint.

90% of all goods in global trade is carried by the shipping industry, but even in the age of smartphones and self driving cars, manual paper-based systems – such as fax machines – are still the industry standard method to process shipments.