Category: Responsible Packaging
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Farmers tuning in to the profitability of sustainability
The sustainable farming practices promoted through project are also meant to improve productivity without asking farmers to drastically alter their … Source
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Seeking Applicants for Sustainability Commission for Contra Costa County
The Sustainability Committee of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors is now accepting applications from individuals to fill three (3) at-large … Source
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Earth Day 2018: End Plastic Pollution Countdown to April 22
Homepage Of Animals and Bees and Flowers Wild as Earth Day Nears Serious concerns for anyone who cares for wildlife and the planet we inhabit. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/04/18/animals-and-bees-and-flowers-wild-earth-day-nears
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Wrapped in a Sea of Plastic
Half a century of this “uncontrolled experiment” is fast becoming as serious a problem as climate change. Plastics everywhere was bad enough, but now multiple studies have found that 94 percent of our drinking water and 93 percent of sampled bottled water worldwide are full of plastic particles and chemicals, including BPA, heavy metals, phthalates, pesticides, PCBs and other…
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‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ is 16 times bigger than we thought, scientists say
Scientists arrived at this figure, which is around 16 times higher than previous estimates, by assessing aerial images alongside data from ships dragging nets through the region. Occupying the waters between California and Hawaii, the patch is the largest of five major offshore waste accumulation zones that result from converging ocean currents. The 23-year-old planning…
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Most plastic waste appears to come from five developing nations in Asia.
Around 8 million tons of plastic waste is dumped in the ocean annually. That equates to emptying a garbage truck of plastic into the sea every minute , most of it single-use products, such as plastic bags, candy wrappers, sachets and soda bottles. This mismanagement not only pollutes oceans and harms marine wildlife, but also makes life harder…
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‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought
The patch of detritus is more than twice the size of France and is up to 16 times larger than previously estimated. An enormous area of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean is teeming with far more debris than previously thought, heightening alarm that the world’s oceans are being increasingly choked by trillions of pieces…
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73% of Deep-Sea Fish Have Ingested Plastic
Microplastics can really be found everywhere, even in the stomachs of creatures living deep underwater. Marine scientists from the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway found the plastic bits in 73 percent of 233 deep-sea fish collected from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean—one of the highest microplastic frequencies in fish ever recorded worldwide. https://www.ecowatch.com/plastics-deep-sea-fish-2536726086.html
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We Are Drowning In Plastic, and Fracking Companies Are Profiting
Plastic production wreaks havoc on people and the planet—from fracking wells and pipelines in Pennsylvania, to air pollution from plastic plants in Scotland. We are choking the planet in plastic. Everything from wasteful water bottles to grocery shopping bags are polluting our waterways, and endangering marine life and the natural environment. It’s fair to say…
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Dunkin’ Says Bye to Foam Cups (But Bring Your Own Thermos Anyway)
Dunkin’ Donuts announced Wednesday that it is phasing out its landfill-clogging polystyrene foam cups in favor of paper cups. The company’s plan, which kicks off this spring in New York City and California restaurants with a targeted worldwide completion date of 2020, will prevent nearly 1 billion foam cups from entering the waste stream each year—and that’s…