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Counting My Plastic Waste: Week 2
Journal
4 mos ago
Posted on Switchboard by Kathryn McGrath
Two years ago Beth Terry decided to stop using plastic and began chronicling her saga on a blog, fakeplasticfish.com. She recently issued a challenge to readers to collect all their plastic trash for a week and submit photographs and tallies (the results are posted here). Inspired and curious, I decided to keep track of all those bits of plastic refuse. Here are the results of my second week cataloging and saving all my plastic waste.
Despite the long list, it's a big improvement over last week's results. Non-recyclable 1 bag of feline pine cat litter 2 shopping bags 4 small plastic bags, 2 plastic molded forms, a software cd, a hang tag and a plastic security tag from my new camera1 molded… |
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One Week of Plastic Waste
Journal
5 mos ago
Posted on Switchboard by Kathryn McGrath June 19, 2009 Two years ago Beth Terry decided to stop using plastic and began chronicling her saga on a blog, fakeplasticfish.com. She recently issued a challenge to readers to collect all their plastic trash for a week and submit photographs and tallies (the results are posted here). Inspired and curious, I decided to keep track of all those bits of plastic refuse. I work for the NRDC in New York and often write stories about making more sustainable choices on NRDC's green living site, simplesteps.org. As you'd expect, I avoid disposable packaging and buying plastic items, or so I thought until I started dragging all my plastic trash home with me. I stayed true to the spirit of scientific inquiry and didn't avoid plastic despite my growing dismay at the… |
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Toys to Take Off Your List
Journal
1 yr ago
Submitted by ktfinklea on Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
'Tis the Season to be Shopping. And while shopping for toys hasn't gotten any less competitive, it has gotten a little trickier. Read the blog below to learn how to shop smart this holiday season and avoid buying toys filled with hormone-disrupting chemicals. Then take Action to stop the sale of toxic toys. Rubber Ducky You're Not The One With the holiday season upon us, I have been asked by well meaning friends and family members what they can get my daughter for a Christmas gift. Any ideas I can give them are accompanied by a long list of caveats -- Please, no vinyl toys, and preferably no toys or books made of any type of plastic because the plasticizers used to soften them are toxic; wooden toys are better than plastic but watch… |
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