Posted on Dec 10 2011 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
1. Make Your Own Wrapping Paper
Most mass-produced wrapping paper you find in stores is not recyclable and ends up in a landfill. Instead, get creative with non-plastic gift wrapping. Wrap presents with old maps, the comics section of a newspaper, or children’s artwork. You can also use a scarf, an attractive dish towel, a bandanna, or some other useful cloth item, and forgo the plastic tape...
Posted on Nov 22 2011 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
The Plastic Pollution Coalition team has put together a fun list of suggestions to help reduce your family’s plastic footprint this Thanksgiving.
Did you know that between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, Americans generate 25 percent more waste per week than during the rest of the year? This creates an additional 1.2 million tons per week, or an extra 6 million tons, for the holiday season!
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Posted on Oct 22 2011 by Daniella Dimitrova Russo
For years, October has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in the U.S. and around the world. Bringing awareness about breast cancer has been and continues to be an important goal. Progress has been made in achieving earlier detection, better treatment, and longer lives. But in spite of this progress, millions of women continue to have their lives devastated by this disease. In fact in the U.S., 1 in...
Posted on Jun 17 2011 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
In the last few weeks we have received many questions about “silken” teabags.
You were worried that the material is not silk, but PLA plastic with undocumented additives. Some of you were concerned that claims of biodegradability and compostability might be misleading. You wrote that “silken” teabags have remained in compost piles for one, or two years without much visible...
Posted on Feb 04 2011 by Amy Westervelt
University of California at Riverside philosophy professor Carl Cranor stepped into a different realm in his new book Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants. But despite the fact that Cranor works in the philosophy department, not the law school, he appears to have done his legal homework. Just published by Harvard University Press, the book details the toxic chemicals people...
Posted on Dec 08 2010 by Amy Westervelt
Back in 2008, everyone cheered when California’s Governor Schwarzenegger signed two bills (AB 1879 and SB 509) known collectively as the Green Chemistry Initiative. Dozens of environmental and public health nonprofits set to work laboring alongside state representatives over the course of two years to craft regulations that would tighten oversight of the 80,000-odd chemicals on the market...
Posted on Oct 13 2010 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
We recycle; therefore, we are decent citizens of planet Earth, right? Well, sort of …
Ever think about where stuff goes AFTER you toss it into your recycling bin?
It’s great to recycle, but the sad truth is that a small percentage of the plastic we contribute to recycle actually gets recycled. Most of the plastic stuff you virtuously toss into your recycling bin often just eventually becomes pollution...
Posted on Aug 11 2010 by Daniella Dimitrova Russo
We are pleased to announce that on Saturday, November 6, 2010, Plastic Pollution Coalition will host TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch, in Santa Monica, California, at the Annenberg Community Beach House. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events where people share big ideas and become inspired. Although independently organized, all TEDx events follow the spirit of TED conferences. TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch...
Posted on Jul 27 2010 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
This week, PPC was approached by Ulrich Wernery, director of the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In a frank and unsettling report, complete with harrowing photographs, he lays out what is an urgent tragedy taking place in the desert,
along the beaches, and in the mountains of the UAE. Camels, sheep, goats and cattle, as well as the protected Arabian Onyx,...
Posted on Jul 19 2010 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
New members’ products make it easy to live without plastic
We are very pleased to announce that Klean Kanteen, Chico Bag and Lunchbots have joined the coalition. All three offer efficient high-quality solutions for a life without disposable plastic—reusable stainless steel water bottles, reusable bags, and stainless steel lunchboxes. These companies are visionary leaders in their fields and we...
