The Recycling Industry: Planet-Friendly or Environmental Foe?
The recycling industry is a fascinating topic. Wait! Hear me out before you shake your head and move on. The fact is that this industry, whether we like it or…
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Plastic Pollution
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Easy Earth Day Tips for 2023 to Make Every Day a Green Day!
Earth Day 2023 is coming up! Before I launch into my Earth Day Tips, some of you might be wondering what on earth (!) is Earth Day? Earth Day is…
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7 Ways to Make it a Plastic Free July 2022!
What is Plastic Free July? Plastic Free July is a global movement that empowers people to be part of the solution to plastic pollution. The concept is simple: Participants are…
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Happy Virtual Earth Day 2022! 9 Ways to Celebrate From Home
It’s been two years since the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day and over two years since the start of this devastating global pandemic. Although it has kept us…
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6 Myths About Plastic Debunked
Plastic is everywhere: in homes, cars, packaging, personal products, clothes. It’s an incredibly useful substance that can be molded and mixed into endless varieties of products, many of which (medical…
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15 Simple Ways to Ditch Plastic Straws and Other Single-Use Plastic
So you’re looking to whittle your waste, but unsure how to start. Reducing your dependence on single-use plastics – plastic straws, plastic bags, plastic bottles – is an effective yet…
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22 Climate Actions We Need to See In 2022
Whether they’re personal changes or those made by the government and business sectors, here are the climate actions we need to see in 2022. Most are not new concepts but,…
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25 Things You Think Are Curbside Recyclable But Aren’t
As you stand in the kitchen with your empty paper coffee cup, do you wonder whether you should put it in the garbage or recycling bin? All of us have…
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Balloon Pollution: A Ballooning Environmental Problem
Balloon pollution is ballooning. (Couldn’t help myself.) Kidding aside, balloons have become an ever-increasing part of beach and ocean litter. All too often, these colorful symbols of happy occasions end…
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Our Plastic Addiction: 5 Ways To Kick the Habit
Plastic is on my mind, and not in a good way. Despite being confronted on a daily basis with the dire news about plastic pollution, humanity’s plastic addiction continues unabated.…
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