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Electrolux Plans On Making Vacuum Cleaners From ‘Ocean Plastic’
Electrolux is embarking on a plan to take plastic from the enormous plastic garbage islands in the ocean and make vacuums out of it. But is this more marketing ploy than real environmental impact?
San Jose Plans To Ban Plastic And Paper Bags
With San Francisco being the first city in the country to ban plastic bag use outright, San Jose is trying to one-up its neighbor by banning paper bags as well as plastic.
New Solar Charger/Case For Iphone And iPod Touch Offers Form And Function
The new Surge solar charger case for iPhone 3G/3Gs and iPod Touch by NovoThink is the first charging device of its kind to be licensed by Apple and is actually somewhat functional.
Pacific Gyre Plastic Island As Bad As We Thought
Unfortunately, a recent scientific voyage to one of the world’s largest (and unintentional) plastic garbage dumps in the Pacific Gyre has confirmed fears that the plastic pollution is extremely pervasive and massive.
Plastic Decomposes Rapidly In The Ocean Leaving Dangerous Chemicals Behind
A new study just released found that plastic in the oceans can decompose in as little as a year, leaching chemical compounds into the water that may harm the health of animals and possibly even people. Think about that next time you take home 20 plastic bags from the store.
Naked Juice Transitioning To 100% Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Bottles
Naked Juice is planning to be the first nationally-distributed beverage brand to use 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles (the Naked reNewabottle) for all of its juices. Though this initiative sounds environmentally beneficial on the surface, the nature of recycling, and recycled content products, often times points to the contrary.
Waste Management/DuPont Tyvek Recycling Kit.
DuPont and Waste Management have come together to offer a new ‘recycling kit’ for all Tyvek materials. Made of industry’s most abundantly used plastic, polyethylene PETE, the disposal and/or reuse of Tyvek products certainly deserves to be addressed. But does this new venture, which charges the consumer with the cost and responsibility to return material, really do more harm than good?
