Showing posts with label zero waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zero waste. Show all posts

Sign The Petition To Stop Killing the Environment and Our Health With Plastic



Every single piece of plastic that has ever been created since the 19th century is still somewhere on the planet today and it’s wreaking havoc with the environment and our health. 

Slash Your Organic Food Bill By Almost 90% With This One Simple Method


As the economy continues to limp along, many are experiencing a belt-tightening effect on their budgets. Unfortunately, this often results in choosing conventional foodstuffs over organic in an effort to save money. But this doesn't have to be the case. A recent study has found that we needn't sacrifice healthy food during times of economic hardship -- instead, we can use a straightforward strategy to purchase organic fare without the hefty price tag.

This Girl Has Produced Less Trash in Two Years Than Most Do In One Day

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(Minds) Imagine, city living where you don't produce waste.  Lauren Singer imagined it, and over the last two years has produced only a mason jar of waste.

As an environmental studies major at NYU, Lauren was aghast when, day after day, another student in her class would bring in plastic cups, plates and forks and throw them away.  One day, after being particularly annoyed, she went home and opened her refrigerator to realize she, too, had plastic packaging problems.  Pretty much everything she had in her refrigerator was in plastic containers.  She WAS that girl.

At that moment, she made a decision.  She would no longer produce waste.

This "zero-waste" supermarket got rid of all food packaging


(Salon) Forget plastic bag bans. Berlin is now home to a supermarket that’s gotten rid of all disposable packaging. Original Unverpackt (“Original Unpackaged”), which opened Saturday, is more of a shop, to be exact, but its 350-some products — including from fruits, vegetables, dry grains and pourable liquids like yogurt, lotion and shampoo — are dispensed into refillable containers. (Some liquids come in bottles with deposits on them, which is already standard in Germany).