Tag: Plastics - Page 9
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Pledge to Plug Plastic Pollution with the Plastiki
Image via My Plastiki The Plastiki is nearing the end of it's voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It's been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the
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Prioritizing Plastics Key to Kicking Oil Addiction - Plus Reducing Waste & Pollution
Once we've gotten our priorities straight regarding reducing the massive amount of oil we use in transportation--largely because we've built our communities into places where most people need to drive rather than walk, bike or take
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Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight
Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.
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"Recycled Island" Turns Ocean Plastic into a Paradise
Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic? Well, with all the plastic that floats around in the ocean as a toxic soup threatening all manner of marine life, one architecture firm has a bold vision to create an
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Pacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video)
Electrolux is known for pushing the envelope on design, including sustainable design. And their latest project has our full attention. Pointing out that there isn't enough recycled plastic on land to supply demand,
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Plastic Century Dares You: Sip from Trash-Filled Water
Visitors who come across the "Plastic Century" art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find
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Yes, It's True: California is Banning Plastic Bags
Thanks largely to the interminable gloom of the BP Gulf oil spill, it feels like we haven't seen any good news on the green front for ages. But while all eyes have been on the Gulf, the California State Assembly passed a truly exciting
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On Celebrating Everyday Heros to Save Our Oceans
I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. "Progress!" I thought to myself
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Don't *@#! Where You Eat! - How We Let The Oceans Get So Bad.
Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is currently aboard the 60 foot, 12,500 plastic bottle ThePlastiki.com vessel crossing the Pacific, fresh from the Galapagos where he covered TED Ocean's Mission-Blue conference. This post originally appeared on
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The Plastiki's Quest, and Questioning Plastic
Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the
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How Biomimicry Inspired Creating A Ship from 12,000 Plastic Bottles (Videos)
I met David de Rothschild at the Google Zeitgeist conference in 2007 where we both spoke during the session about Green Technology. He explained his idea of
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Bubble Wrap Wedding Dress and Hats Hit the Fashion Scene
Here comes the bride.... This blushing bride wore a dress made out of 13 feet of bubble wrap as she walked down the aisle. Her train was another three feet. She looks so great!
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If You Wish to Make a Toaster from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe
Carl Sagan famously said that "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." An apple was a bit tough for art student Thomas Thwaite, but a toaster seemed more approachable. We covered the first
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Plastic Gets There First - Surfing Legends Say They've Found Plastic Even On Remotest Beaches (Video)
There are just so many examples of the principle of there really being no 'away' when it comes to plastic waste. The great state- and small country-sized floating plastic garbage patches in the Pacific and Atlantic are gaining publicity, but here's
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If You Want Social Networking for Tap Water Drinkers, JoinThePipe
Let me first say "Happy Mother's Day" to all the mothers out there. Then let me share something that seems fitting for this Mother's Day: a cause my daughter turned me onto, a cause which every mother can support. Yes, it is clean
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Concord, MA to be First U.S. Town to Ban Bottled Water
Last week residents of Concord, Massachusetts voted to ban the sale of all bottled water by next January, making it the first U.S. town to take such action.
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Lush Wrapping is Reusable, Japanese-Style
In Japan it is called furoshiki and they have been doing it for centuries. At Lush they call it knot-wrap and it has been a huge hit in the last few months since they introduced it. Instead of using wrapping paper, they have been
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Massive Plastic Bottle Building Unveiled in Taiwan
digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/massive-plastic-bottle-building-unveiled-in-taiwan.php'; 1.5 Million Bottles Used to Build It! A building some are calling "the world's first plastic bottle built structure" has been unveiled in
