Photo by Ed Yourdon. Beth of Fake Plastic Fish sent me the following email about the importance of supporting a National Bottle Bill to reduce the amount of plastic (ugh) bottles that are being sent to landfills. Read on as to why a national bill is so important: “Show Your Support For a National Bottle [...]
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Photo courtesy of Shea Hazarian. I have always been a fan of companies such as Terracycle, which take our trash and create usable products. But when I reflect on what wonderful work they are doing, I have to wonder is this a band-aid until we realize the products we are upcycling are not necessarily good [...]
Seedlings Aboard! The other day I watched a plastic bag float up into the sky like a balloon. As it disappeared out of site, I was sadden by the prospect of the bag’s remaining life to hang from a tree, on a bush, or stuck in a ravine for years to come. This darling of our [...]
Recently I wrote about Preserve’s agreement with Clorox to collect and re-use the Brita filters. Preserve manufactures household products out of recycled plastics such as toothbrushes, razors, plates, and BPA free kitchen products. In addition to accepting, Brita filters, they are also accepting other #5 plastics as well such as yogurt cups through their Gimme [...]
Photo by permission of Beth Terry A couple of months ago, I wrote about Clorox’s FilterForGood campaign which encourages people to buy a Brita water filtration pitcher rather than buy plastic bottles. I felt their marketing campaign was an oxymoron. At one hand, they were promoting their Brita pitcher as saving the Earth from horrid [...]
Clorox, the North American parent of Brita, is urging Americans to take the pledge to reduce their use of plastic water bottles via their Filter For Good website, in partnership with Nalgene. They have several commercials depicting our love affair with plastic disposable water bottles in our daily routine, whether at the gym or playing [...]
The morning after, could this be your car? We have been looking for about a year for a used bedroom set for my teenage son. He had outgrown his children furniture, and I wanted him to have a set he can take with him when he decides to live on his own, which is coming [...]
Did you ever wonder what that plastic piece in the center of your pizza was called? It is called a package saver, and it helps prevent the box from damaging the pizza. According to an article on About.com, it was invented by Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, NY, receiving a patent on this device in 1985. So, what does this [...]
Photo by Zainub Razvi by permission under the Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0 I was recently surfing the web and found this really interesting website, Fake Plastic Fish, which will make you rethink your use of plastic. Why start a blog about plastics? The author, Beth Terry, wrote in an email to me the following: “I was at home [...]
