Tag: Plastic Bags - Page 7
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TH Forums Highlights: Avoiding Plastic Bags, Blog Action Day + More
1) Let's talk plastic bag ridiculousness with Forums user TheSilentChamber. At issue: various retail
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TreeHugger Picks: Ban the Bag
Plastic bags make a big, persistent mess when they get left where they don't belong or get trashed in a landfill. Thankfully, we're learning to stay away from them (and designing greener alternatives); here are some of TreeHugger's picks for those
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Core77's Next One Hour Design Competition: Ban the Plastic Bag
The good folks over at Core77 have launched another of their One Hour Design Competitions (where you spend an hour conceiving, sketching and rendering a world-saving design concept -- we've mentioned them before) and this one's all about a subject
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Wal-Mart Kids Recycling Challenge Makes A Difference
Well this Wal-Mart bag may be twisting eerily in the early evening wind, but it could be snatched up soon by a kid saving plastic bags as part of the Wal-Mart Kids Recycling Challenge. Initially launched in 2004, they’ve encouraged kids across a wide
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10 Reuse Solutions for Plastic Bags
Even the most diligent reusable-tote-carrying greenie eventually gets saddled with a couple of plastic bags—that's how insidious these blights upon the environment are. But we've also seen some brain-rattlingly creative
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The Take On Plastic Bags in Israel
There is no way to put it delicately Israelis — it's time to get rid of the plastic bag fetish.
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TH Forums Highlights: Water Heaters, Using Compost + More
1) "Is it a good idea to put my water heater outside?" wonders Forums user Maurices5000, who wants to move it from the kitchen to...somewhere that makes more sense,
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Africa wages war on scourge of plastic bags
And we think we have a plastic bag problem. According to Andrew Cawthorne of Reuters, they've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains. Discarded plastic bags -- in the billions -- flutter from thorn-bushes
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Plastic Bag Gallery
Treehugger has had so many posts on plastic bags, it would seem that there is nothing more to say about the subject. So maybe it is time to switch to pictures, worth a thousand words, of course. The Photographers' Gallery has asked people to send in
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Who Needs a Shopping Bag With a Mottainai Furoshiki?
The Japanese Minister of the Environment doesn't like plastic bags any more than we do, but instead of a shopping bag that one always leaves at home, she uses a furoshiki made from recycled PET bottles. Furoshiki were first used as wrapping cloths in
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TH Forums Highlights: Clean Coal, Peak Oil, Plastic Bags and More
The community over at TreeHugger Forums has been steadily growing, having reached almost 1500 users, but moderator greenhammer wants everyone to feel welcome to register and join the conversations for a greener planet. We can't continue to push
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An 8 Year Old On A Mission
When most kids are 8 they’re out running around with friends or catching up on the TV they missed while at school, but Jaide Ramirez-Jennings is busy running the non-profit she started in kindergarten called Kids in Care of Kids (KICK). After seeing
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DIY: More Fused Plastic Bags
A while ago we wrote about fusing plastic bags together to make a hard wearing plastic fabric that can be sewn into something else. Etsy Labs published a tutorial on this process and CRAFTzine and WhipUp both published stories on this technique. Now
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Minimalist/Modernist Reusable Tote Bags
We've been urging folks to bring their own reusable bags (when they shop at the farmer's market, of course) for a while now, and the idea is definitely starting to catch on, especially thanks to the plastic bag bans in San Francisco, at IKEA, in
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Grocery Bag Today; Garbage Bag Tomorrow
By some estimates, between 500 billion to one trillion plastic bags are consumed world-wide every year; Americans are responsible for around 100 billion of those -- that's a lot. Towns like Modbury in the UK, cities like San Francisco in the US and
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DIY: Plastic Bag Fabric: Reclaiming Plastic Shopping Bags for Good
Plastic shopping bags are a scourge on the environment. What to do with all those plastic bags that seem to be just hanging around everywhere. One idea that seems to be a hit amongst the DIY and creative arty crowd is to fuse various plastic bags
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Bags2Riches
Anna Roebuck studied fine art at Edinburgh College of Art nearly a decade and half ago, later going onto work in paper pulp. Which may be where she learnt some lessons applicable to her proprietary process for heat fusing the plastic of discarded
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Ontario Green Plan Stomps Federal Canadian Plan
Ontario is like California in the States- big, rich and powerful and able to set its own standards no matter what the feds do. Two days ago I was ready to trash Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten for her half-assed plan to reduce the use of
