A Home For Plastic Bags, and Plastic Bags For a Home
No commentsCongratulations to 12-year-old Max Wallack — he can now claim the distinct honor of having won PBS Kids Design Squad’s “Trash to Treasure” competition, by giving plastic bags and packing peanuts a worthwhile new purpose.
So just what was the brilliant idea Max came up with? Wallack invented a “Home Dome,” a structure made of plastic [...]
A Week Without Plastic? Piece of Cake… Right?
1 comment so farI read an interesting blog from this weekend, about a challenge that — ideally — shouldn’t be any sort of challenge whatsoever. Can you go one day, three days, or even one week without accruing any new disposable plastic? Author and blogger Trudi Morgan-Cole caught wind of just such a challenge (albeit informal) on CBC [...]
An Object Lesson in Bag Waste For New Jersey Students
No commentsOne million paper clips, a mol of pennies — it’s hard to really comprehend what a large number looks like until you see it in a jar or all lined up, which is what makes these grade school object lessons so fun. But what would five hundred plastic bags look like? Well, they probably wouldn’t [...]
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