Last week I saw a provocative ad created for Brita+Nalgenes’ Filter For Good campaign, accompanied by the first commercial I’ve seen that shows a bottle of water for what it is. An energy inefficient, toxic commodity that we use once and throw “out”, where it languishes for 1,000 years. Now, I don’t buy bottled water [...]

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A couple weeks ago my aunt handed me this postcard. She thought I’d appreciate it given my obsession with lecturing the family, and ‘going negative’ at events like kid’s birthday parties when living rooms become seas of clam shell packaging.   It’s a newish compulsion, but I every time I see one of my adorable nieces [...]

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Americans discard over 380 billion plastic grocery bags each year, choking landfills and endangering animals.
Why use something for 10 minutes that will sit in a landfill for 1000 years?
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Don’t waste energy. Tips on what, why and how to recycle plastics. Bet you are missing some in your home!!! Watch and find out now.
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BBC News
Just 7% of the two million tonnes of plastics waste created each year in the UK is recycled, experts estimate.

About a quarter of all household plastic bottles are now recycled
Because of the variety of plastic types and the cost of recycling them, many councils have been slow to introduce comprehensive plastics recycling schemes.
Progress is [...]

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MSNBC
The biggest growth in bottled beverages isn’t beer or soft drinks or juices. It’s tasteless, colorless and sugarless water. And while that can mean fewer cavities and slimmer waistlines, it irritates Patricia Franklin to no end.
The director of a nonprofit group that promotes recycling, she spends her workday thinking about the bottles, cans and [...]

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NPR
NPR’s Scott Horsley reports that thirsty consumers who used to reach for a can of soda are increasingly reaching for plastic bottles of water instead. That may be good for the body, but it’s bad for the environment. In California, where landfills are filling with plastic bottles, conservation officials have started a recycling campaign. A [...]

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