19
Jun
In Colombia … Coke launched the first ever bottle made out of ice. Same flavor, same refreshing experience less the plastic or glass waste when you are done drinking. Pretty smart, especially if served in a bar on the beach.
19
Jun
In Colombia … Coke launched the first ever bottle made out of ice. Same flavor, same refreshing experience less the plastic or glass waste when you are done drinking. Pretty smart, especially if served in a bar on the beach.
08
Jun
Trash that litters ocean floor is mostly recyclables
More than half of the plastic items were bags, many wrapped around coral.
04
Jun
30
May
If you can’t bear to toss the colorful tubes in the trash, we’ve got some ideas.
25
Apr
The recycling of hard plastics is now a whole lot easier in New York City
In perhaps the biggest push to bump New York City’s recycling rate to 30 percent by 2017, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces the immediate inclusion of rigid plastics in the city’s recycling program.
22
Apr
Looking to make a positive change this Earth Day? How about reducing your plastic waste?
Plastic is found in virtually everything these days. Your food and hygiene products are packaged in it. Your car, phone and computer are made from it. And you might even chew on it daily in the form of gum. While most plastics are touted as recyclable, the reality is that they’re “downcycled.” A plastic milk carton can never be recycled into another carton — it can be made into a lower-quality item like plastic lumber, which can’t be recycled.
16
Apr
19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.
Via BoingBoing
Also on the ocean-garbage front: We’ve covered various responses to the Pacific Garbage Patch, here, and here.
31
Mar
Taina Uitto was disgusted by plastic long before she learned the full horror of its lasting legacy. “Every time I used a bag or threw out a wrapper, my conscience spoke to me,” she says, which is why she went plastic-free and started her blog, Plastic Manners.
Uitto admits it was daunting at first and says she was fearful about all the things she’d have to give up, but getting over the fear was the hardest part. Skeptics have told her that to be truly plastic-free, she’d have to move to an island and become more self-sufficient; so, on March 1, 2011, she bought land on an island.
Read about some more bloggers’ green journeys.
28
Feb
via unconsumption
via laurajmoss