To Shred or Not to Shred
No commentsSometimes you have to shred a piece of paper or two — no one wants bank statements and credit card bills falling into the wrong hands intact. But have you ever considered how the simple act of shredding might effect its ability to be recycled? I hadn’t ever really considered it, to be honest, but [...]
Paper Isn’t the Answer
No commentsWith all of the anger built up around disposable plastic bags and the hype built up to get them off the market, it isn’t hard to make a leap to the assumption that paper bags are the eco-savvy answer. Not so fast — the production process of paper is, in truth, just as costly and [...]
E-Cycling Gets Free and Easier in Washington
No commentsWhenever I hear “E-Cycling,” I think of some amazing new technology that allows you to shoot your old trash and junk over to the recycling plant by means of e-mail. Of course, it isn’t — “E-Cycling” is simply the term used for recycling and managing potentially hazardous electronic waste, and, thanks to a new state [...]
The Importance of Being Educated on Recycling
No commentsRecycling is vital to preserving our environment — but that fact alone is nothing without the education and understanding needed to put the concept into action. This is true everywhere, but according to Johannesburg’s Institute of Waste Management, nowhere is such education more desperately needed than in South Africa. With over a thousand landfill sites [...]
Arizona House Bill Demands Plastic Bag Recycling
No commentsThe environment is taking a front seat in recent days with state representatives in Arizona: there is a new bill on the table, and it has its sights set on plastic bags. The bill, sponsored by AZ State Rep. Nancy Young Wright, asks national retailers and “big-box stores” to employ recycling programs for their plastic [...]
Loblaws Enacts Plastic Bag Fee
No commentsCanada is always brimming with news on the plastic bag front, and today is no different. Today, Canadian supermarket chain Loblaws has, of their own accord, enacted a 5-cent plastic bag fee. What’s more, the changeover was met with acceptance and the air of a resolve to change for the better. At a Loblaws store [...]
Iowa Forges a Bold Path Towards Going Green
No commentsThere’s a saying out there: go bold or go home. Some of us choose to go home, but the United States’ Midwest is going bold! To be specific, the great state of Iowa. Over the coming weeks and months, there may be some big changes in the old IA. For one thing, the Iowa City [...]
Tags: conservation, environmental policy, Iowa, plastic bags, recycling, reusable bags
Brad Pitt’s Green Homes Getting Top Architectural Honors
No commentsOriginally today I was going to write about the state of reusable bags in New Jersey, but considering it’s been a while (what with the holiday and all) I thought you might want to hear something a little bit cheerier while still on the environmental front. Then I read over at Ecorazzi that Architectural Digest [...]
Reusable Bags Can’t Work With Food Banks… Or CAN They?
No commentsIn an opinion piece I covered earlier this year, Bob Pratte from the Riverside Press-Enterprise listed off a lot of self-serving reasons why disposable plastic bags should remain in circulation, but one good-intentioned bullet point was that the bags are needed to distribute food at local food banks. Plastic bags are dropped off in a [...]
Toronto Holds Back on Coffee Cups
No commentsWhat’s up, Toronto? It seems like it’s nothing but compromises up there in The Icy North. Just the other day, you guys voted to push back the ban on disposable plastic bags by four whole months, and now I hear that your committees are losing ground on the paper coffee cup debate as well? Unanimously, [...]
