Plant Green comes up with a Plastic Detox Program.
I decided that Step One of my Plastic Detox Program would be to find out what I have. It’s both worse and a bit better than I thought.
The bad news: Virtually every product in my bathroom (save the hand soap and one moisturizer in glass bottles — and [...]

PLASTIC bags are to be banned at Queen Victoria Market.
The meat and deli halls will start phasing them out from next month. Other traders will follow over the next year.
The market, which attracts 10 million locals and tourists a year, is matching other major retailers such as Bunnings and Target, which have branded plastic bags [...]

Here is a short list of how we can all care for our oceans to protect the beautiful marine life that lives there.

The first one is obvious. Reduce the use of plastic’s including bottles, bags and utensils.
Two, chemicals and detergents often end up in the drain where they eventually get washed out into the ocean [...]

Americans have always prided themselves on developing new technologies and ways to make life better. Unfortunately with some conveniences, side effects to the environment, as well as your wallet can result. Take bottled water for example. With summer just around the corner, many consumers will look to purchase bottled water as an easy solution to [...]

It’s hard to imagine what life was like without plastic.  It’s everywhere: covering our food, holding our purchases, protecting our sports stars, rolling along the highway, saving patients in hospitals and floating along our waterways and oceans.
The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic.
During [...]

It’s ironic. In many parts of the world, there is no clean drinking water. Here in the U.S., pure, drinkable water flows out of every tap, and yet Americans buy a staggering amount of bottled water. We pay big bucks for it, too — more than $15 billion a year.
Worse of all, the bottles are [...]

Fri 07 May 8.07
Thanks to OLTW on Twitter: Taken the Plastiki Pledge yet? Tough, but worth it! Cut plastic bottles bags & styrene out of your life http://myplastiki.com/takeaction.php

One good reason to recycle plastic is that there is just so much of it.
Plastics are used to manufacture an incredible number of products we use every day, such as beverage and food containers, trash bags and grocery bags, plastic cups and utensils, children’s toys and diapers, and bottles for everything from mouthwash and shampoo [...]

Plastic is all around us. Practically everything we own and use is made from plastic. One plastic product that has a huge impact on the environment and causes unnecessary ecological damage is the single use plastic water bottle. The whole process of producing plastic bottles has an impact on the environment. There is the production, [...]

The issue of oceanic plastic pollution has become so mainstream that Captain Charles Moore, Pacific Garbage Patch discoverer, has been on Good Morning America, David Letterman (Part 1,Part 2), The Colbert Report and even on Fox Conservative Mike Huckabee’s Show since the beginning of 2010. I can’t find video of the Huckabee interview, BUT it’s on [...]