Tag: Plastics
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Clever Plastic-Free and Low-Tech Ways to Store Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Skip the fridge and plastic bags when storing fruits and veggies. They'll last longer and taste better.
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Oversized 'Urban Plant Tags' Label Sidewalk Fixtures as if They're Plants
This creative project labels urban sidewalk fixtures with giant plant tags.
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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School Garden (UPDATE)
Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.
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Is This Yours? Search Midway Atoll's Lost & Found For Your Lost Plastic Stuff
Midway is like a giant lost and found for plastic items -- so look through and see if any of these items are yours!
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On Midway, More Plastic Washes Up With Every Wave. Literally. (Video + Pics)
How do you clean up a beach when every wave hitting the shore brings yet more plastic bits. This video shows the impossibility of the task.
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Coming to Grips with Plastic Pollution, One Bird at a Time
Getting a handle on the scale of our plastic pollution problem is tough, but seeing it wrapped in the bones of a bird helps.
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Living a Life Without Plastic Is Possible, but Expensive
From clay water bottles to an entire store devoted to life without plastic, there are alternatives.
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Phthalates Increase Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Phthalates found in cosmetics, personal care products, and plastics may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes in seniors.
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What is Causing Early Puberty In Girls?
New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.
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Be a Good Little Bunny and Watch Out for Excessive Easter Egg Packaging
Love the egg, hate the boxes: Easter egg packaging is better but still too much.
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Re-usable Take-Out Boxes Take Hold in Portland
Laura Weiss agonized over the waste she knew Portland's food carts were generating. She devised a solution, by bike, with re-usable containers and a subscription service.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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McDonald's Tests Out Ditching Polystyrene Cups In 2000 Stores
15% of McDonald's stores will begin testing double-walled fiber cups, to replace polystyrene foam.
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Hot Sand and Skill Turns Plastic Bottles into Jewelry at Sahrawi Refugee Camp (Photos)
This technique transforms used plastic bottles into beautiful jewelry by burying them into hot desert sand -- and the project creates a sustainable business for Saharawi refugees.
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Just What We Needed Dept: A Banana Slicer
It is truly one of life's mysteries: Why someone would invent such a thing, and why someone would buy it.
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United Arab Emirates Speeds Up Ban On Disposable Plastics
Original supposed to come into effect in a year, the ban will come into effect in 2012. It covers all disposable plastic products not made from oxo-biodegradable plastics from approved suppliers.
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Soda Bottle Planters Go Mainstream with the Stylish CapsulePot
This self-watering soda bottle planter is awfully cute...but it's also easy to make your own.
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Massive Waste of Mardi Gras Beads is No Party
You can't kiss all that trash away: But a few environmental groups in New Orleans plan to divert some of the plastic beads from landfill this year.
