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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have learnt that in gaining policy support in politics, it’s either GOOD politics to support it, or BAD politics if you don’t. Why would politicians NOT support a policy to ban the plastic bag world wide? You haven’t made good policy on banning the bag, either good politics or bad. Yet I know, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]