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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.
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.
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
The Plastic Bag War Is Moving Toward the Produce Aisle
You don't use plastic bags at the grocery checkout. So why do you still use them in the produce department?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
One Beach, One Year: A Trashy Love Story
This is part nine of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here. Richard...
Environment
Transparency: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By now, most of us are aware that there is a large patch of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What you may not know is that...
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...
The Community Board
On Bottled Water & Filters
I live in a city whos tap water has a nasty chlorine taste when it first comes out of the tap. Now I know that temperature has to with odor and...
Environment
Taking a Trip to Better Understand the Floating Piles of Garbage in Our Oceans
The writer and environmentalist Stiv Wilson is on a mission to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean, and what he—and the rest of...
Environment
Ocean Minders: An Interview with Pro Surfers Mary Osborne and Jennifer Flannigan
This is part three Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the first and second installment here and here....
