Flipping Bling® Resource Library

When is it Okay to Wear Flip Flops?

• Anna Wintour says she loves flip flops
• WhoWhatWear columnist Allyson Payer

Recycling Flip Flops

• Flip flops don’t go away. “They stay forever in landfills…” Source: blueocean.net

• “Plastic pollution: Flip-flop tide engulfs ‘paradise’ island” – that’s the headline in a 2019 BBC article by Matt McGrath

• “Millions of discarded flip flops posing huge hazard to ocean life.” article by Olivia Yasukawa and Thomas Page, CNN.

• “Whale died with stomach full of flip-flops,” by Amanda Kooser, CNET.com.

• “Scientists are making flip-flops out of algae that are 100% biodegradable” by Elizabeth McCauley, BusinessInsider.com

• This company, OceanSole, is a Kenyan flip flop art group which recycles washed up flip flops

I Started My Business From Home; You Can, Too

• SCORE is a nationwide network of expert business mentors.
• The Conway Innovation Center (“CIC”) is a local business incubation center.
• The local Small Business Development Center (“SBDC”), a partner program of the SBA.
• SBA (Small Business Administration) – seminars, webinars and always available for advice.
• The S.C. Department of Commerce
• Widener University Small Business Development Center