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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.... |
Posts Tagged ‘PVC’
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 entire post.No Technology is Truly Green: A guest post from Alyssa J. Pasquale
Before you invest in that new “green” computer or purchase those fun solar deck lights, read this insider’s perspective from Fake Plastic Fish reader Alyssa J. Pasquale and consider whether buying new technology is ever truly green. If you have an idea for a guest post, please contact me and let me know. [...]
Read the entire post.Eco-Driving is great. But how about less driving in the first place?
May is EcoDriving Month. I don’t know who decided this, but it’s fine with me if designating a month will encourage drivers to learn strategies for lessening their fuel consumption and emissions while driving. In fact, EcoDriving USA is an advertiser on Fake Plastic Fish this month. Click the ad on the [...]
Read the entire post.Addicted to Plastic: must-see film not made by Disney
While everyone’s going nuts about Disney’s Earth (which I fully intend to see), I want to tell you about another film that readers of Fake Plastic Fish should not miss.
Back in January, I had the opportunity to see an amazing film by Ian Connacher called Addicted to Plastic. It’s not showing in any mainstream [...]
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 entire 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 [...]
Week 25 Results: 12.8 oz of plastic.
Back from my retreat and so grateful that I have a beautiful place to go and supportive people to be with for a few days to recharge. More on that tomorrow. I’m still in retreat mode, so this post will be brief.
I mentioned that the plastic this week would be a doozy, and [...]
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 [...]
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