Archive for the 'Sustainability' Category
Published: 2 September 2010
Earth911.com reports a new Water-on-the-Go program is part of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to make drinking water easily available at outdoor public locations and events throughout the city this summer. Running through Labor Day weekend, the Water-on-the-Go program features new fountains all five boroughs at public plazas, city parks, green markets and […]
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Published: 31 August 2010
Earth911.com provides some ideas for individuals who want to take recycling into their own hands, such as turning used glass beer bottles into houses, jewelry, glassware, candleholders, and chandeliers.
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Published: 27 August 2010
The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is teaming up with Keep America Beautiful Inc. (KAB), the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization, to promote GPI’s Recycle Glass Week and KAB’s America Recycles Day, a nationally-recognized day for community-driven initiatives dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States.
Recycle Glass Week 2010 is just […]
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Published: 6 August 2010
Earth911.com reports on the environmental issues with “first taste waste,” the business behind free food samples. These single-use food samples amount to a huge amount of waste. Earth911.com urges consumers to consider this the next time you are getting free samples: the U.S. manufactures 40 billion plastic utensils each year.
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Published: 5 August 2010
“The Daily Green” reports on the six least green types of packaging, which include: polystyrene foam, plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic tableware, paperboard, and aluminum. Approximately 1,950,000 tons of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) food and beverage containers were deposited in landfills in the United States in 2008 and 1,160,000 tons of aluminum foil and cans […]
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Published: 3 August 2010
During GPI’s second annual Recycle Glass Week, September 12-18, glass container manufacturers, suppliers, and recyclers, will again unite to hold nationwide activities and events to build awareness and boost glass bottle recycling.
GPI will announce specific 2010 activities and events soon.
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Published: 30 July 2010
CBS News reports 82-year-old Jean Hill of Concord, Mass., proposed a resolution to ban the selling of still water in plastic bottles in her town. Hill is most concerned about the “trashing of our planet.” According to CBS, only 27 percent of used plastic water bottles are recycled, while the rest are thrown […]
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Published: 27 July 2010
Earth911.com reports a vessel, called the Plastiki, made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic soda bottles has reached Sydney after its 11,000 nautical mile trans-Pacific voyage to raise awareness about the health of oceans, heavily polluted by plastic debris and at risk from over-fishing, and to showcase waste as a resource and demonstrate real world solutions through […]
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Published: 26 July 2010
Earth911.com reports in response to the onslaught of organic personal care products on the market, Whole Foods Market has recently announced that to be sold in its stores all personal care products making “organic” claims must be third-party certified. Under the new guideline, all products making an organic product claim, such as “organic body lotion,” […]
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Published: 16 July 2010
American rock singer-songwriter and musician Jackson Browne blames over-consumption of plastic bottled water for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in an opinion-editorial for the “London Daily Mail.” According to scientists’ and activists’ estimate, the amount of oil used to produce plastic every day is the same amount as the oil that is spilling into […]
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