Posts tagged Aldicarb
Cigarettes
Cigarettes

We have seen on the news and most probably also in real life how single-use plastics pollute our earth. But did you know that cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean pollution? Every year trillions of cigarettes are tossed out in parks, on streets, in oceans and on beaches. The impact on the environment of these filters is not the only impact on the environment though, this impact starts at the production process of cigarettes.

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My Green Goodie InfoArlette DiederiksCigarettes, Cigarette butts, Environment, Pollution, Litter, Plastic waste, Marine life, Imperial College London, Deforestation, Tobacco, Toxic materials, Aldicarb, Tobacco production, Professor Nick Voulvoulis, Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial, cellulose acetate, World Health Organization, WHO, Filters, Cigarette filters, Tobacco industry, Mervyn Witherspoon, Green Butts, San Diego, Xavier Van Osten, Tadas Lisauskas, Organic materials, Thomas Novotny, CleanupsComment
Flowers
Flowers

Many mothers will receive a beautiful bouquet of flowers this coming Sunday. But have you ever considered the journey and the footprint of the flowers you buy for her? Over 80% of the flowers sold at grocery stores, florist shops and online are grown thousands of miles away, mostly in Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, Africa or Israel. So there is a lot of environmental impact on transport from farm to port and then the fuel consumed via refrigerated trucking of flowers from port to florist. 

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My Green Goodie InfoArlette DiederiksFlowers, Mother´s day, Carbon footprint, CO2 emissions, flowerpetal, Roses, Ethical flowers, Fairtrade, Packaging, Agrochemicals, Aldicarb, Mathyl parathion, Water usage, Kenya, Florverde, Colombia, Minimum wage, poor conditions, Locally grown flowers, Herb garden, Organic flowersComment