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Purchasing habits vs. recycling

Published: 29 September 2006
Category: Recycling, Uncategorized

In this article, the author talks about “recycling myths” and claims that “purchasing habits” are more crucial to saving the environment than recycling itself.

The author writes …

“People are recycling old cardboard boxes from laundry detergent made with toxic ingredients and chemicals that wash down the drain and pollute the streams, groundwater and, ultimately, the ocean. […]

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Welcome to Keep It Organic

Published: 25 August 2006
Category: Uncategorized

Welcome to Keep It Organic.This site hopes to provide important facts about organic foods, trends and consumer interest.

If you want pure food you need pure packaging One important and sometimes overlooked segment of the organic movement is the packaging. The organic consumer is the most concerned shopper today. It is curious that even some organic […]

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Bisphenol A and the effects on your brain

Published: 4 April 2006
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Reproductive/Hormonal Changes, Uncategorized

According to this article in Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 114, Number 4, “estrogens are known to trigger rapid cellular responses, including hormone secretion and cell permeability changes, in tissues as diverse as the pancreas, the pituitary gland, and the brain.”

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Breast cancer and plastic food containers

Published: 30 May 2005
Category: Cancer, Uncategorized

According to the Guardian Unlimited, scientists have suggested that a “chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributing factor to women developing breast cancer.”

The current study “links the compound to the development of hormone sensitive tissue in mice and has prompted environmental campaigners to call for far tighter regulation of such chemicals.”

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