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Music Festivals and the Plastic Bottle Problem

How Reusable Snack Bags Can Save You Money and The Environment

5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day and Make Real Change

My Plastic-Free Life | Lily Watts Interview

How Much Plastic is Really in the Ocean? The Sad Truth

Why Recycling Doesn't Work - The Captain Planet Myth

What Are The Most Polluting Industries? The Answer Is Complicated

Make Earth Day Radical Again

How to Use and Clean Beeswax Wraps

Is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Real?

Beeswax Wraps and 5 Other Plastic-Free Ways to Preserve Food

What is Zero Waste Living?

Zero Waste Home - 15 Simple Swaps To Make Today

Five Easy Tips to Start Your Zero Waste Life

A Plastic (w)RAP

Is Plastic Food Storage as bad as Cigarettes?

You don’t need to be a doctor to know smoking causes cancer. But that wasn’t always the case. For years, smoking cigarettes was considered cool and maybe even, ah, healthy for new moms.  When res...

100 Million Plastic Utensils Are Used in America Every Day... REALLY?

Fake News, Click Bait or Factual Scientific Data?   100 Million Plastic Utensils... Really? from Steve Reble on Vimeo. We see reference to our disposable plastic culture every day, so much so, th...

10 Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Waste

There it is again. Every. Single. Time. I chuck a piece of plastic into the bin and then I feel "the guilt" (because I know that stuff isn't going to decompose). Are ya with me? You know it's bad, ...

The Making of Change, One Step at a Time

Okay, so I've long known that plastic has some heinous effects on the environment, but when I learned that estrogen mimicking compounds are in most plastics, plastic and I were no longer friends. I...

Is Plastic the Next Cigarette?

Should we have done a background check on plastic before it became a part of our family? Plastic has loitered in our kitchen for decades without us even getting to know its last name, shoe size, o...