Time to break out tbe lauhala bags: A ban on plastic bags for customers of merchants in Kaua’i and Maui counties begins today. Unlike San Francisco’s landmark ban, which went into effect in November 2007, the Maui mandate includes both compostable and noncompostable plastic bags, presumably because the marine life that is at risk from [...]

Bisphenol A chemical commonly found in canned soup and food storage plastics is also used in some plastic wrap and plastic sandwich bags. Before you decide to chew on the cap of your water bottle because you’re nervous, make sure the plastic you are chewing on isn’t full of carcinogens and chemicals — even though [...]

Kick The CAP Out of Plastic Environmental Project – The City of Miramar, Everglades High School and Dolphin Bay Elementary. The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation is all about environmental education. Many a time we can as adults learn from our children. The Foundation was contacted by Katia Brody from the City of Miramar Florida and was [...]

Thanks to Lisa Rolls Hagelberg at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya for sending this short video Plastic Kills to me – I suggest it says it all! If you haven’t already joined us to STOPlasticbags with a world wide ban, now would be a good time to sign the petition GO HERE [...]

Consumer waste from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is turning a Hawaiian beach “into plastic”, Tropic of Cancer presenter Simon Reeve has found. Conservationist Sam Gon escorted him to the remote Kamilo Beach on Hawaii, where plastic bottles, bags, tyres, rusting petrol cans, and other waste from around the world washes up. They found more [...]

A gray whale that washed ashore in West Seattle last week had an unusually large amount of man-made debris in its stomach, marine mammal researchers announced Monday. The 37-foot-long whale had more than 50 gallons of undigested stomach contents, including more than 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, sweatpants, duct tape, pieces of plastic [...]

Yachtsman and environmentalist Ian Kiernan is Chairman and Founder of Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World. Here he states his opinion on the state of the world’s oceans. (CNN) — I grew up on the shores of Sydney Harbor and I fondly remember exploring the crystal clear pools, observing the unique and bountiful [...]

This post first appeared on Food Politics.  You almost have to be sorry for soft drink companies these day.  The latest blow?.  BPA has been found in soft drink cans in Canada (and, presumably, in the US?). – What about your country? And the Danes have banned BPA from food packages targeted to children, no doubt, as  the Swiss have shown, bottle-fed [...]

Science Daily reports on – Plastics surround us. A vital manufacturing ingredient for nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we use every day. Although modern life would be hard to imagine without this versatile chemistry, products composed of plastics also have a dark side, due in part [...]

In recent days with the harsh reality brought home once more that activism and change costs money, I have reflected on past actions against the odds. Donate a dollar or two to the FIGHTING FUND to keep our VOICE ALIVE. Where we started and why we did. We will over the coming weeks and months [...]