World Environment Day is a very special day that brings us all together for one purpose. To think of how we impact on our environment and to talk about ways we can mitigate that impact. Every day the world consumes an estimated 1,440 million (1 million per minute) with an estimate of over 500 billion [...]

On World Environment Day June 5th 2009 the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation with the help of its dedicated staff and all of you, launched the STOPlasticBags – Global action to Ban the Plastic Bag; forever. On September 26th 2009 we held the first ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags Day’. The petition is going strong with over [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: Although this short 30 second presentation does not dwell on the toxicity of the plastic plague in our oceans, let us not forget that many of these plastics contain BPA now being recognised as a harmful carcinogenic toxin. We are now being warned about its effect, but who will warn the [...]

Oceanographers have found that a vast floating island of rubbish in the Pacific has doubled over a decade and is now nearly six times the size of Britain. The giant waste collection, known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” lies between California and Hawaii and has been gradually growing for 60 years. It contains everything [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]

This excellent analysis of plastic or paper bags by TreeHugger as they impact our environment should be commended for its in-depth coverage of the data. As many will know the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation on World Environment Day in 2009 commenced a global campaign to Ban the Plastic Bag our initiative later endorsed by the United [...]

The region is said to compare with the well-documented “great Pacific garbage patch”. Karen Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association told the BBC that the issue of plastics had been “largely ignored” in the Atlantic. She announced the findings of a two-decade-long study at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, US. The work is [...]

Jay Kilby of think2100.com has taken the initiative to launch a petition to ask consumers to take a stand on pushing for environmental product stewardship of unnecessary waste packaging. As all who know of the environmental educational messages of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation over the last few years, waste packaging has been a major focus [...]

As if there weren’t enough problems for the ocean such as acidification which threatens to eradicate all crustaceans over the next 40 years, the pacific gyre garbage patch is such a bleak and immense problem, that at first glance, one can’t help but wish it wasn’t really true. Come aboard as the VBS crew takes a [...]

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