Colgate announces new recyclable toothpaste tube
The packaging engineers at Colgate have cracked the code when it comes to manufacturing a recyclable plastic toothpaste tube, and it will significantly reduce the amount of plastic waste that resulted from the original design we all know. Every year, approximately 20 billion unrecyclable toothpaste tubes are discarded into landfills and a lot of them […]
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Your sunscreen is killing coral reefs and you don’t realize it
Coral reefs are dying around the world, and sunscreen is only making the problem worse because some of the chemicals we put on our skin are getting into the ocean where it poisons the reefs, negatively impacting ecosystems that depend on them. While sunscreens containing titanium oxide or zinc oxide are safer than most, there […]
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A brewing environmental problem: K-Cup waste
They have become almost ubiquitous in our fast-paced world, where we seek instant solutions to something as simple as a morning cup of coffee: The Keurig K-Cup. Maybe you have one in your home or have long wanted one, thinking that it would cut down on wasting coffee and water by just brewing one cup […]
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United Kingdom airport experiments with reusable coffee cups to reduce waste
Gatwick airport in the United Kingdom is conducting a trial experiment aimed at reducing paper waste at Starbucks by giving travelers the option of using a reusable cup instead. There are already other experiments being tried around the globe to reduce waste, such as Belgium’s attempt to replace take-out food containers with reusable containers people […]
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When it comes to reducing single-use plastics, ALDI tops the list among grocery chains
With 1,864 stores across the nation and growing, popular grocery retail store ALDI has been ranked in first place above all others when it comes to reducing single-use plastics, although there is still much more work to be done. At this point, people around the world are recognizing more and more the threat that single-use […]
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Canada looks to ban single-use plastics by 2021, Trudeau announces
Canada is stepping up to the plate to fight climate change and reduce its production of plastic waste by joining the European Union in banning single-use plastics by 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this week. Our northern neighbor has already banned the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity, and now, just as the […]
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Volkswagen rises again by making electric cars even more eco-friendly
“In the darkness, we found the light.” That’s the new tagline in the latest Volkswagen commercial advertising the automaker’s brand new I.D. series based on the iconic van line popular among hippies in the 1970s. Only this vehicle is electric and more eco-friendly than ever before. Volkswagen sure did go through a dark time recently […]
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Washington becomes the first state to experiment with ‘human composting’
A couple of weeks ago, Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill that makes it legal to compost human remains as an alternative to burial or cremation. The move makes Washington the first state to allow such a plan, and the law will go into effect in May of 2020, according to CNN: “Currently […]
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Amazon rainforest deforestation reaches new highs in just one month in Brazil
Deforestation in Brazil is now out of control as more of the Amazon rainforest disappears at a higher rate in just the month of May alone. Ever since Brazil’s President Jair Balsonaro took power he has gone on a crusade against environmentalism, putting the Amazon rainforest, also known as the “lungs of the world,” in […]
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Whales can no longer avoid our plastic waste and are dying from it more frequently
The amount of plastic waste in our oceans in so vast that whales can no longer avoid it and are dying more frequently because of it, resulting in an unfolding disaster that will reverberate across ecosystems and our own lives. There are currently five major patches of garbage floating in our oceans, the largest containing […]
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