Laundry detergents are a major plastic waste culprit.
Get this: In Canada alone, approximately 94 million plastic 1.5L / 50 fl. oz. plastic laundry jugs end up in landfills each year – or potentially as plastic pollution in the broader environment.
There is now an eco-friendly solution that eliminates all plastic waste – and cleans beautifully.
Looking at efforts and ideas ranging from the Kingdom of Bhutan to Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project to Pharrell Williams Raw for the Oceans, this post examines how the correlation between using less plastic and happiness is valid and important, but not always so easy to implement, and requires a broader perspective.
“I’m optimistic after hanging out with these kids today.”
Those are the words of musician/eco-crusador Jack Johnson during the 2014 Plastic Ocean Pollution Solutions (POPS) Youth Leadership Summit organized by Algalita Marine Research and Education.
Youth from around the globe meet in Long Beach, California on February 27th for the 2015 POPS Summit.
As far as sensory experiences involving taste buds go, this one is near the top.
It’s a European-style rich thick hot chocolate locally made with love.
And you can experience it too…
…and we’re on a mission to reclaim it from the grips of a toxic, polluting and unhealthy industry.
There’s much more to this “plastic” word than meets the eye.
He is known as the Paper Bag Boy. He is on a mission to rid the world of plastic bags.
And now Abdul Muqeet has joined forces with India’s Technex 2015, one of the largest student-run tech-management conferences in the world, to raise awareness and reduce plastic bag use across India.
After all the unbridled shopping of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, Tuesday is an opportunity to give back.
Learn more about the new global movement, Giving Tuesday, and how you can take part.
A walk in the first real snow of the season is the perfect opportunity to venture forth into the great unknown to ensure that our wool-insulated jute bottle bag keeps warm drinks warm.
Read on to hear about my unscientific, but effective, experiment.
Organic Cotton Plastic Free Mesh Produce Bags
Most dehydrators have plastic trays, and many even have toxic plastic interiors. Yuck.
We’ve just started carrying a stainless steel one – trays and interior are plastic-free!
Read on to experience how we used it to make a favorite lemon-soaked banana chip snack…
Warning! They are addictive.
