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Government environmentally catastrophic U turn on plastic bags

Posted by kateregga on Wednesday, 24 June 2015 in General Environment

We all know that polythene bag creation was an accident by Hans von Pechmann in 1898 and its proper disposal never followed thereafter. Over a trillion plastic bags are used every year which implies that about 2 million a used each minute. Over 100 billion plastic bags are used in the USA each...

How to Make Multimedia Storytelling Your Secret Weapon

Posted by morgan on Sunday, 27 October 2013 in General Environment

Going viral in The Intertwine Wild Society How to make multimedia storytelling your secret weapon By Morgan Rider, October 23 2013 Once upon a time, in a special place in northwest Oregon, a group of passionate dreamers armed with conservation strat...

Global Call to Stop Plastic Pollution

Posted by Hugh Lavery on Friday, 30 August 2013 in Earth Violators

When did everything become Plastic? When I was a kid, we collected shells on the beach, not plastic trash. There wasn't enough disposable plastic in those days for plastics to collect on the beaches. Plastic bags came into heavy use in American grocery stores when I was in high school in the late '...

Ban plastic bags across Europe and end the 'throw-away society'

Posted by mox on Friday, 15 March 2013 in Recycling

Global plastic production has increased from 1.5 million tonnes per year in 1950, to 245 million tonnes in 2008, reveals MEP The European Commission recently presented a green paper on plastic waste. Plastic has become a symbol of our throw-away society. The use of plastic has sky...

Sustainability and Football

Posted by bensor on Monday, 31 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

As is the case with most sports, college football–not to mention bowl games–and sustainability do not intuitively go in the same sentence. The long-term sustainability of many of these games themselves come into question considering how many of them there are; 6-6 teams have an opport...

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A Day Without A Bag - can you do it?

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 16 December 2010 in Sustainable Development

So we don't ask for much. Just one a day a year can everyone not use a plastic bag. Why? Well because its "A Day Without A Bag"! Our holiday gift to the environment! Join tens of thousands of shoppers statewide in giving up disposable bags in favor of reusable sacks. Take the pledge to make everyda...