Posts Tagged ‘ plastic waste ’

Pigs, Pollution, and Ocean Dead Zones. Can You Hear Me Now?

April 5, 2010
By Beth Buczynski
Pigs, Pollution, and Ocean Dead Zones. Can You Hear Me Now?

From giant whales and manta rays to tiny fish that represent an essential link in the marine food chain, there's so much more going on beneath the waves than might initially meet the eye. That is, of course, unless you've stumbled into a dead zone.
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Thinking Outside The Recycling Bin: Ideas for Plastics

September 21, 2009
By Beth Buczynski
Thinking Outside The Recycling Bin: Ideas for Plastics

The over consumption of plastics, especially plastic bottles, is creating an enormous amount of waste in America. Though its very easy to recycle plastics in this country, the plastic bottle, the to-go container, and convenient spray bottle are all part of the throw-away mentality that is slowly burying us under mountains of trash that...
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Hittin’ It Out of the Park: Professional Baseball Plays Green

March 13, 2009
By Beth Buczynski
Hittin’ It Out of the Park: Professional Baseball Plays Green

Professional athletes are always lending (or being forced to lend) their fame and faces to support charitable causes. (Think NBA Cares and NFL Play60!) But these efforts are watered down because of their obvious duality as publicity stunts. And except for lame, sponsor-heavy recycling efforts and the like, very few of these philanthropic endeavors...
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