On December 23rd 2005 I received an email to advise our Company was to be honored by the Society of Plastics Engineers USA with the Global Environment Award for Plastics Recycling at a ceremony on March 1st 2006 in Atlanta Georgia. My immediate reaction; excitement was heavily weighed upon by the cost of such a [...]

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 [...]

Following on from the Foundations article on copper chrome arsenate treated timber ‘Poison sold to the ignorant by the uneducated’ this feature suggests a similar course of action be adopted; the ‘Precautionary Principle’ for a range of toxic chemicals that are in everyday products we are needlessly exposed to without our knowledge that may result [...]

The chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been making headlines lately. Consumers have been warned to avoid number 4 plastic as well as canned foods and even cans of soda pop. Back in October, though, Science News reported that cash register receipts also contain BPA, and that it’s present in higher quantities than other sources. The tricky [...]

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF – New York Times The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies. The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, [...]

By Bob Williamson Recently I read a report ‘Europe finds clean energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags’ printed in the New York Times. It featured Denmark where its 29 advanced waste incineration plants are now providing electricity and what they claim ‘reducing carbon dioxide emissions’. Around 2003 I attended a waste management conference and was [...]

The environmental educator Annie Leonard who brought us the Story of Stuff & The Devils in the Detail on Cap & Trade now brings us an educated look at the hot topic of Bottled Water. You’ll also gain valuable information on the recycling rates of plastic bottles (PET) in the US in the report compiled by the [...]

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 [...]