Tag: Plastics - Page 5
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Bottled Water Company Told To Stop Making Claims That Its Bottles Are Biodegradable
A brand that we have ridiculed before for claims about its water now is in big trouble for its claims about its bottle.
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How Washing Machines Are Adding to the Plastic Pollution Problem in Our Oceans
Tiny fragments of synthetic materials are coming from our washing machines and contaminating ocean shorelines around the world.
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iPhone Cases Made from Agricultural Waste and Recycled Plastic
The next time someone says your iPhone case looks like you found it in the trash, you can take it as a compliment. But that's only if you've got a ReCase from Miniwiz, made from 100% recycled agricultural waste and post-consumer
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Infographic: The Unbelievable Scale of Marine Trash
What is the impact of our plastic use on the ocean's animal life? A new infographic from Project AWARE sheds a bit of light on the sheer scale of the problem, and the incredible number of animals affected by our
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Removing Arsenic From Water With...Plastic Bottles and Nutrition Supplements?!
When we think of plastic bottles, we usually think of them as a serious problem tied up with our drinking water, not a possible solution for cleaning water for 100 million people. But researchers have found that by
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Plastic Disclosure Project to Bring Transparency to Plastic Use At Corporate, Institutional Level
The perils of our culture's overuse of plastic have been well documented here at TreeHugger, as have suggestions for how to reduce consumption of plastic on an individual basis. But while we can avoid and find
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Coca Cola and Nestle Show Signs of Support for Improved Recycling Laws (Updated)
Of the 224 billion beverage containers sold in the U.S. every year, only about 29 percent are recycled. Companies have been blamed in the past for not doing more to increase that rate—but that may now be changing,
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Peter Gabriel Creates Amazing DJ Booth With His Old CDs and Cassettes
Now that we live in the digital age, the question has often been asked: "What in the love of music do we do with all our old formats?" Yes, all those cassettes, CDs, VHSs and their horribly non-recyclable jewel cases that are still
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Designer Creates Plastic from Fish Scales
Designer Erik de Laurens has come up with a novel raw material for making plastic -- fish scales. By dying the scales and treating them under heat and pressure, he can make them act much like a plastic. Dezeen
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Just What We Needed Dept.: The Happy Hot Dog Man
Weiners are getting altogether too much exposure these days, but we can't pass up this opportunity to complain about another of what the Unclutterer dubbed Unitaskers- tools or devices that do only one thing and clog up your drawers and cupboards. And
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Why Recycling Plastic Bottles Doesn't Help The Problem (Video)
Plastic bottles always suck, even if they're being recycled. That's because the energy it takes to recycle them is mind-boggling. It's no simple task to melt down all those bottles, and the plastic is usually
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Marketing Should be the By-Product of Corporate Ethics, not the Root
Photo credit: dotjay/Creative Commons Corporate ethics is one of the most critical components of the green tech revolution today. The foundation of sustainable product design is innovation in base materials, novel new green chemistries that replace
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Pro Surfer Kyle Thiermann, Jack Johnson, and Others on 'Toxic Tumbleweeds' and More Single-Use Plastics
Plastic has most certainly been demonized over the past decade and with good reason. But even still, we spend roughly $100 billion every year on bottled water. And that's just plastic water bottles. Single-use plastics have
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Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)
It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores
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An Aesthetic Case Against Disposables: 8 Timeless Objects Vs. Their Tacky Single-Use Alternatives (Slideshow)
After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first-hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous
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An Aesthetic Case Against Disposables: 8 Timeless Objects Vs. Their Tacky Single-Use Alternatives
After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first-hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos
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The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not Plastic
The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and useful hasn't been easy. One alternative: bioplastics,
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Plastic, A Toxic Love Story (Book Review)
Like most TreeHugger readers I had an ah ha moment a while ago regarding plastics, the ubiquity of them in our lives, the huge problems of disposing or recycling them, the absurdity of using a material that takes anywhere from thousands to billions of
