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9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!

April 3, 2018

9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good! One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that everything is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems it creates. To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year – […]

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Toxic ‘Reform’ Law Will Gut State Rules on Dangerous Chemicals

January 11, 2016

TOXIC “REFORM” LAW WILL GUT STATE RULES ON DANGEROUS CHEMICALS A NEW SET OF BILLS that aims to update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act may nullify the efforts of states such as Maine and California to regulate dangerous chemicals. The Senate’s bill, passed last month, just before the holidays, is particularly restrictive. The Frank R. […]

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Taking a Bite Out of Plastic Waste: New Research Offers Unexpected Promise as Permaculture Hack

October 8, 2015

Taking a Bite Out of Plastic Waste: New Research Offers Unexpected Promise as Permaculture Hack Reducing plastic pollution has seemed a daunting prospect, until now. Can the tiny Mealworm bite off more than we can chew? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans alone throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups each year. Styrofoam […]

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Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers

July 19, 2015

Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers Microbeads just tip of plastic iceberg floating in Canadian waters Tiny plastic pellets called microbeads have gotten a lot of attention as a major water pollutant, but less-discussed microplastics are equally concerning, according to new research being done in Canada. “In recent years, they’ve been detected […]

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Ocean Plastic Estimated at 5.25 Trillion Pieces — But Where’s the Rest? – Our World

December 14, 2014

Ocean Plastic Estimated at 5.25 Trillion Pieces — But Where’s the Rest? – Our World. The deluge of plastic detritus — from the large to the microscopic — swirling about in our oceans weighs in at 269,000 metric tons, according to the most comprehensive research on marine plastic hot off the press yesterday. One of the […]

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The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence

October 28, 2014

The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence. We all know about society’s over-consumption of plastic. We’ve heard again and again that it takes up to a millennia for plastics to bio-degrade (1), and consumers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year (2). And the issue of micro-plastic in our oceans […]

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