Green Toys is a company that makes their toys from recycled plastic! They mainly use plastic milk jugs and have already recycled 56 million of these jugs! They are doing this in order to make use of all the plastic that has been used in the world but will still take 5000 years to decompose. … Continue reading Green Toys Is Saving the World!
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Package Free Store in Brooklyn
For those of you who live in New York City, Lauren Singer, a person who decided to go zero-waste 3 years ago opened up a store called "Package Free", the name of the store essentially explains the whole concept of what they sell. All their products are waste and package free. They sell everything, from … Continue reading Package Free Store in Brooklyn
PlAsTic StAtIsTiCs
^^nationalgeographic Half the plastic used in a year is only used once40% of plastic is used for production^^^57% were for the packaging of water The U.S made more than 100 billion plastic bottles last year!Of all the plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean 80% of it is from landIt is estimated that 1 million seabirds … Continue reading PlAsTic StAtIsTiCs
Thinking about Plastic
In a blog post titled "Thinking about plastic...," the writer mpshawn2 provides many important details about the usefulness of plastic. Plastic is commonly used as a tool to enclose useful things, such as, items that are bought from specialty stores or supermarkets. There is a great tragedy here though, usually the items that are contained … Continue reading Thinking about Plastic
Ways to Reduce your Plastic Pollution
Now, you may be wondering how to reduce how much plastic pollution you create, and actually it's quite easy. Reducing your plastic waste will help the planet slowly if we all try to reduce our plastic waste all together, we can make an impact on the world This one is obvious, but stop using plastic … Continue reading Ways to Reduce your Plastic Pollution
Plastic Bottles, a True Plastic Life
Heres something crazy: 1 MILLION plastic bottles are purchased around the world in a minute! In fact, by 2021 that number is supposed to raise by 20% and more than half a trillion will be sold by the end of that decade. The number of plastic bottles has continued to increase as years pass and … Continue reading Plastic Bottles, a True Plastic Life