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Tag: plastic bags
DIY Plarn Mats For The Homeless: A Great Use For Plastic Shopping Bags
Wayne Abadie of Luling, Louisiana, discovered a way to create a little comfort for homeless people: plarn sleeping mats made from used plastic shopping bags
Prison Recycling Program Saves County $10,000 A Year
A prison recycling program has reduced waste sent to the landfill and composts food waste. It saves the taxpayers almost $10,000 a year.
Plastic Bag Bans or Fees Cover 49 Million Americans
With California’s statewide plastic bag ban, millions of Americans are now prevented from using these wasteful, polluting convenience items.
Plastic Bag Bans Spreading in the United States
More than 20 million Americans live in communities with plastic bag bans or fees, including Los Angeles, the latest to institute such a ban on large retailers.
Green Business Blog Carnival #2
Welcome to (or welcome back to) the Green Business Blog Carnival, your weekly wrap-up of some of the most compelling content published on sustainable business. We’re proud to be co-sponsoring [ … ]
One Woman Battles the Bag… and Wins! (PPB #17)
Our friends at Eco-Libris have their guest post up, and it combines the themes of eco-heroes and plastic bags that we’ve already seen. After making a documentary on “about the [ … ]
The Long, Long Life of a Plastic Bag (PPB #15)
According to Becky Stiepe’s guest post at Glue & Glitter, each of us uses about 330 plastic shopping bags a year. All together, that means we go through 90 billion [ … ]
7 Environmental Lessons from Living in Europe
I have lived in Europe on two occasions now — for five months in the Netherlands (two years ago) and for ten months in Poland (currently). I have been green-minded [ … ]
Recycling Plastic Bags… Because Sometimes You Forget the Reusable Ones
Got a collection of reusable shopping bags? Same here… but I’ll freely admit that sometimes I forget them, or decide to stop to pick things up when I don’t have [ … ]
Help Schlumpy Get 1 Billion Plastic Bags Off of the Street
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/4MbTVC1BWaY&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Schlumpy? Huh? Schlumpy’s an 8-foot plastic bag ball touring the country to build awareness of the 100 billion plastic shopping bags Americans use each year. That’s right… billion! Want [ … ]
An Old-New Trickle-Down Theory? Basic Corporate Social Responsibility Has Potential to Save Us, Eliminate Plastic Bag Dependency
Yesterday I posted here about plastic bag fees and bans being frozen in — or before reaching — legislatures. Supposedly that’s due to economics, though reality seems to be more [ … ]
Wal-Mart May Remove 9 Million Plastic Bags from the Waste Stream – Big Whoop
I’m in a foul mood today, people. The government is in talks to give away 700 billion dollars to companies who have proven to be irresponsible with money. The entire [ … ]