Articles tagged “Plastic Bags”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

4 Challenges to Reduce Plastic Pollution By Care2.com IN Work & Connect Nov 10 2010 The TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch forum, designed to elevate plastic pollution to the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse, concluded Monday with four specific challenges to businesses, policy makers and individuals to refuse disposable plastics. Here's what the challenges mean to you. + READ MORE

How Many Cities Have a Ban on Plastic Bags? By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 17 2010 Cities around the world that have banned plastic bags, or at least placed a tax on their use. + READ MORE

San Francisco Moves to Expand the Plastic Bag Ban - California May Follow By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Aug 10 2010 San Francisco is considering expanding its ban on plastic bags beyond supermarkets and pharmacies. + READ MORE

The Pacific Garbage Patch Explained -- New Updates By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 9 2010 You'll also hear it called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," the "Pacific Trash Gyre," the "Pacific Trash Vortex," and the "Oh My...What Have We Done!?" among other names. We explain what it is, what it's doing to our ocean ecology, and what we can do about it. + READ MORE

Turn Trash Into Useful Items for Your Garden By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jun 29 2010 Here are fifteen ideas for giving trash a new life in your garden. + READ MORE

The Plastic Project Part 1: What This Will Be All About. By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 29 2010 I'm going to take it room by room and document the plastic in my life, as well as my efforts to replace it with a greener equivalent. If that equivalent is great, you'll hear about it. If it sucks and makes me super cranky, you'll hear about that too. If it's even pretty good, but I know I'll be too lazy to stick with it, we'll talk about that. + READ MORE

10 Alternative Packing Materials By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Apr 1 2010 Forget packing peanuts. Pad packages with reusable materials or things that would otherwise end up in the trash or recycling bin. + READ MORE

A Letter from a Senior Citizen to Young People: Don't Make the Mistakes We Made By Collin Dunn IN Work & Connect Jan 11 2010 My name is Gene Steele, I live in Oakland, Ca. and I want to change the world. I was born in 1945 and have lived through several horrific wars and the ever present threat of man's self destruction through global nuclear conflict. Yet, I have never felt so vulnerable as I have since becoming aware of the measure of damage that has been done to our planet, mainly by those of my generation. + READ MORE

Produce: The Other Reusable Bag By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Oct 26 2009 People using plastic produce bags at a market. + READ MORE

Is Plastic Making Us Fat? By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Sep 28 2009 Increasing evidence shows that hormone-mimicking compounds, such as BPA and pthalates in plastic and so many other household, cleaning, and even clothing products, are contributing to the obesity epidemic. + READ MORE

How Can You Reuse 768 Plastic Envelopes and Bags? By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Work & Connect Aug 12 2009 Recently, The Register pointed us to a big packaging misstep by electronics manufacturer Hewlett-Packard. The company shipped out hundreds of plastic envelopes and bags, each containing one very small computer part. Could they have done a better job? Absolutely. But that's not what we're hoping to figure out here. No, the damage is already done, and we want to know now how to minimize the impact. + READ MORE

Sites We Love: Plastic Alternatives at Fake Plastic Fish By Blythe Copeland IN Tech & Transport Jul 24 2009 Of course we all say we want to use less plastic, but in the life of Beth Terry, author of Fake Plastic Fish, it's actually happening. But her efforts are rewarding, inspiring, and fun to read: she wraps gifts without plastic tape, uses refillable fountain pens instead of ballpoint, and freezes leftovers in stainless... + READ MORE

Fuse Plastic Bags into an Upcycled Laptop Case By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Jun 23 2009 We've shown off some pretty cool ways to make laptop cases from upcycled materials. Now, Threadbanger has shown off a great way to turn old plastic bags into a hip sleeve for your notebook. The trick is to fuse the bags together into a sewable fabric using heat. So gather up your old plastic bags, a sewing machine, an iron, and watch this video to find out how to make a completely unique laptop sleeve. + READ MORE

How to Keep Your Reusable Bags Clean and Safe By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Jun 9 2009 Reusable shopping bags are great. I love them and I'm constantly picking up another one here and there—if I forget to bring a bag with me, my punishment is the cost of a new one, so they've sort of multiplied. But you know a green product is catching on when the plastics industry is fighting back in what must be an effort to drum up business. + READ MORE

Shocking Report Reveals Marine Litter Madness (Plus 10 Easy Ways to Help Save Our Oceans!) By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 8 2009 With today being the first official World Ocean?s Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Ocean Conservancy (a Planet Green non-profit partner) issued a timely and first-of-its-kind report titled ?Marine Litter: A Global Challenge.? + READ MORE

What's the Big Deal with Forgetting Your Reusable Bags? By Sara Novak IN Work & Connect May 26 2009 Planet Green answers a common question: Does it really matter if you use reusable shopping bags? + READ MORE

Ditch Flimsy Produce Bags By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Apr 17 2009 My biggest pet peeve in the grocery store—aside from pre-packaged produce, which I loathe—are those plastic produce bags. While many stores have banned plastic carrier bags, flimsy plastic bags are still a staple for fruits and veggies. I've long shunned the bag for larger items like broccoli and bell peppers and even apples, but it's a little more difficult when it comes to smaller items, particularly if you need a lot?think string beans and Brussels sprouts. + READ MORE

60,000 Plastic Bags are Being Used This Second: Help Slow it Down By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Apr 16 2009 We've all been bombarded with green tips to bring our own canvas bags. On an intellectual level, we get it: plastic bags suck. But do we really truly, deeply understand the serious implications of them?enough to put our intellectual understanding into action? + READ MORE

Prepare Your Food without Toxins, Like Dolphins Do By Brian Merchant IN Food & Health Mar 10 2009 Here's something that a lot of people don't know about dolphins: they have some remarkable eating habits. In fact, a recent study has revealed that dolphins prepare food much like chefs do. Allow me to explain. + READ MORE

Reusing Plastic Bags during the Holidays By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden Feb 18 2009 Wrap plastic bags into a holiday wreath... Use them for kid-proof holiday crafts, like ghosts Family Crafts and pumpkins Family Crafts...Decorate them with paint or stickers and use to give out plates of cookies at the holidays... + READ MORE