If you have a wasteful grass lawn, consider replacing it with clover instead
Americans are fascinated, and even obsessed with having a grass lawn. But the big problem with grass yards is that they are useless while wasting time, money and resources keeping it up. Instead of continuing this exercise in unsustainability, we should plant clover. I have a big yard that takes six hours to cut with […]
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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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Corporations have wiped out enough trees for profit to fill up the United Kingdom
Several companies within the agriculture industry pledged to end their ties to deforestation by 2020, but as that deadline is about to come and go, it turns out they are all liars as they have wiped out enough trees for profit over the last decade to fill up the United Kingdom. And it’s only going […]
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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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Kids take U.S. government to court for not addressing the dangers of climate change
On Tuesday, a federal court heard arguments in a case which could force the United States government to finally take climate change seriously and do something to rectify the problem. Juliana vs. United States was filed in 2014 by 21 children and young adults who charge that the “government’s inaction on addressing climate change violated their […]
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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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