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Environment
London Restaurants Shame Drinkers Into Saying No to Plastic Straws
If businesses are going to promote more sustainable choices, they should promote choices that matter.
Environment
In Santa Monica, Teens Tackle Environmental Causes with Creativity
For five years, Team Marine, a group of students at Santa Monica High, have been championing environmental causes in creative, attention-getting ways.
News
UPS Tests Lighter, More Efficient Plastic Delivery Trucks
With plastic instead of aluminum, these trucks are about 40 percent more fuel efficient. Impressive.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Strawberry Dust Devil Ballet
Watch this moment of unexpected beauty, as a mini-tornado lifts plastic sheeting off a strawberry field and twirls it through the air.
Lifestyle
New Technology Creates a More Eco-Friendly Head on Your Guinness
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Irish mathematicians discover a biodegradable alternative to the plastic widget in cans of Guinness.
Environment
"Plastic State of Mind" Mock Music Video Makes Damn Good Case for Banning Disposable Shopping Bags
Watch this mock music video and learn everything you need to know about why plastic bags are really, really dumb.
Environment
House Republicans Bring Styrofoam Waste Back Into the Capitol Coffee Shop
But their waste is only a little worse than the Democrat waste it's replacing.
Lifestyle
Silence Is Golden: Frito-Lay Releases a Quieter Compostable SunChips Bag
After last year's noisy compostable SunChips bag fiasco, Frito-Lay has come back with a new, improved design, and it's in stores now.
Culture
EU Bans Penis-Shrinking Chemical; America Does Not
The European Union today banned a variety of dangerous chemicals that the United States is still using freely. Time to catch up, America.
Environment
Video: Van Jones Speaks at TEDxGPGP on the Economic Injustice of Plastic
Van Jones talks about the injustices—health, economic, environmental—of plastic and our addiction to disposability.
Environment
Video: A Day in the Life of Mr. O
An abstract short film that narrates the story of the ocean's struggles alongside a collection of understated motion graphics and a jazz score.
Business
Wal-Mart Recycling Program Pays Cash for Trash
Wal-Mart already does some other recycling collection, but this is the only way I know of to get paid for used yogurt containers.
Design
GOOD Design Daily: A Vacuum Made With Trash
The vacuum manufacturer hopes to make a statement about the lack of plastic that's recycled by making five vacuums made from ocean trash.
Business
Bioplastic Made from Poop, for a Profit
Here's a profitable product that can solve two environmental problems at once. It involves a secret formula of bacteria, raw sewage, and an M.B.A.
Environment
The Absurdly High Costs of Free Shopping Bags
What free, disposable product uses 38 million barrels of oil and costs the US $20 billion a year? Plastic bags. Grist
Environment
The Plastiki Completes Its Trans-Pacific Journey
Last year we wrote about the David de Rothschild-led Plastiki expedition—whose name recalls Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trans-Pacific journey on the...
Environment
Portland Mayor Sam Adams on the Myth of Recycling and the Cost of Plastic Pollution
This is part 11 of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Sam Adams...
Environment
Beth Terry Bursts Your Bubble: You're Chewing On Plastic
This is part 10 of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Did you know...
