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Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left.... |
Category: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
Ice Pack, Heating Pad, Rice Sock
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC, commonly known as vinyl), Polyurethane foam (foam rubber), Polyster. All these poly’s. All non-biodegradable plastics. Not so good for our health or that of the planet, right? And yet so many health products are made from these materials. Take electric heating pads and gel ice packs, for example.
My [...]
Read the full post.Fantastic Letter from PolarSolar to Fake Plastic Fish
While I was away this weekend, I received this email from a San Francisco company that installs solar water heaters:
from Joseph Wright
to Beth Terry
date Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM
subject Thanks and Question
Hi Beth,
I wanted to write to let you know what a hero you are of mine and I want to thank you for the positive influence [...]
New Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies
The Center for Health, Environment, & Justice has released its Back to School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies today. It’s a free downloadable guide to all the products kids might need for school, from binders and notebooks to clothes, electronics, lunch boxes, and a host of other products. It includes a comprehensive guide to [...]
Read the full post.Plastics in the Sargasso Sea. Researchers knew about this… WHEN?!
It’s Science Wednesday here at Fake Plastic Fish! Thanks to Wallace “J.” Nichols for forwarding the following article to me. Nichols is the Founder/Co-Director of OceanRevolution.org.
Here’s a summary of the article. Based on what we know about marine plastic, can you guess when it was written?
ABSTRACT Plastic particles, in [...]
Plastic Gift Cards: Re-use, Recycle, Speak Out!
I’ve been carrying around two plastic movie theater gift cards for over a year. Gifts from co-workers, they are much-appreciated because they represent gifts of experiences (movies) rather than more stuff. The fact that I still have them simply means I need to get out more. But the cards themselves, of course, [...]
Read the full post.More sad plastic news. Plus Year 2, Week 21 Results: .05 oz of plastic waste.
The format of this post will be a little different from most of my weekly tallies because I want to emphasize three stories in the news this week which illustrate more of the problems with plastic and plastic recycling.
First: I learned from JessTrev of The Green Phone Booth (via Twitter) that one of the [...]
When giving literally hurts
In the spirit of last month’s Giving Challenges (Burbanmom, Britt Bravo, Green L.A. Girl) I decided to give a pint a few weeks ago. Of blood, that is. What were you thinking? Guinness? I’m almost embarassed to admit that it was my very first time ever donating blood, and the only [...]
Read the full post.Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Love Story
I was sick as a dog this weekend and spent all day Saturday on the couch watching videos. Many readers, after reading about my purges (here and here and here) of #3 PVC containers and a MultiPure water filter system containing PVC, recommended Blue Vinyl to me. But I just never had time to sit [...]
Read the full post.Week 23 Results: 3.5 oz of plastic
Yay! The total weight’s back down again. But my plastic still doesn’t fit in the palm of my hand. Maybe this week coming up?
Before I get on with the tally, here is a PVC update and a local Deal Alert:
First, the PVC update: As you know, I found four bottles in [...]
Week 22 Results: 10.2 oz of plastic
We’re getting a cat! Okay, I’ll get on with the weekly tally. But keep in mind, we’re getting a cat!
Non-recyclable items used this week but purchased before the plastic project began:
5 Refresh Endura single-use eye drop containers (#4 plastic).
Cap & sprayer from a can of CHI Infra Texture Hair Spray. As I [...]
Read the full post.Sponsors
Read my post about plastic-free recycled ReBinder school & office supplies here.
Read my post about GreenBoatStuff.com here! Their stuff is not just for boats!
