Friday Link Round-Up: 10/10/08

What a slow news week it has been! Let’s see if we can wrassle us up some fun links.

A chair made of plastic bags? Looks uncomfortable. I’ll take the chicken. [TechLime]
Turning shirts into bags in Chattanooga! [Chattanooga Times Free Press]
Salvation Army finds success in plastic bag collecting. [Pioneer Local]
Everything is political, even tote bags. [Sydney […]

Recycling Served Five Ways

We’re all about reduction and re-usage over here, but let’s face it — with all the product already floating around out there in the world, recycling is not just encouraged, but vital and crucial and necessary. Most people know to separate out their aluminum foil and plastic bottles from the rest of their trash, but […]

American Chemistry Council Promotes Beach Clean-Up

At this point, we should all be familiar with your friend and mine, the American Chemsitry Council. Famous for taking a stand in favor of the wonderful science of disposable plastic bags, they are one of the foremost and most formidable opponents in the quest to promote reusable bags. Oh, and now they are promoting […]

Friday Link Round-Up: 09/19/08

Canada is still keen on banning the bags. [Surrey Leader]
Glass recycling is coming back in vogue. [Guelph Mercury]
Ontario needs your clean-up help on the 21st. [Timmins Press]
Wow, Canada is actually all about the recycling today! [Evening Courier]
They do get pretty miffed when you fudge the meaning of “eco-friendly,” though. [National Post]
Meanwhile across the border, another […]

New Jersey Considers the Plastic Bag Debate

New Jersey’s Red Bank borough has brought the proposal of a ban on disposable plastic bags before city council this week, and on September 22 the issue is scheduled to be brought before a public hearing. It’s an issue that was first proposed by Councilman Michael DuPont and has since been on and off the […]

Plastic Bags a Focus at Reno Green Summit

Epic, mountainous, frontier wilderness landscapes like Reno often end up being studies in contradictions. At one end they attract the gun-totin’ tobacco-chompin’ Gamblin’-Men who dream of the old cowboy days (see: my grandparents), and at the other they attract tree-hugging eco-crusaders who fall in love with the city’s clean air and forests and relatively unadulterated […]

Are Coffee Cups Next?

With the assault on disposable plastic bags in full effect, a common criticism is that we are unfairly picking on the plastic bag industry while other (arguably) bigger and badder bits of refuse get a free pass to landfill heaven. All in good time, my friends — we’re getting to them. The city of Toronto, […]

Save the Environment: Fall Out Boy Compels You!

Oh, man. I love me some Fall Out Boy. Don’t hate. The boys are no strangers to hard-hitting activism, and now here’s yet a reason to love them, even if you don’t like their music (which you should anyway, but that’s an argument for another day):

Energy efficient lightbulbs? Water conservation? Reusable bags? Be still, my […]

Friday Link Round-Up: 08/29/08

It still isn’t over yet in Seattle. (Seattle Times)
On the other hand, a bag tax beckons in San Francisco. (ABC7 SF)
Packing reusable bags is strenuous? Also: BAG RAAAAAAGE!!! (The Standard)
Hawaii’s big island is ready to follow Maui into bag restrictions. (Pacific Business News)
Meanwhile, Honolulu is dragging its feet. (Honolulu Star Bulletin)
More recycling-friendly back-to-school ideas. (The […]

Wash That Plastic Right Out of Your Life

It’s very heartening to see how, when it comes to environmental issues, some people in the world are constantly pushing themselves past their minimum-effort comfort zones. Doing the least of what is expected is rarely (if ever) enough, but, for every person complaining about the loss of convenience, there’s one more person picking up the […]