Posts tagged Single-use plastics
Six reasons why you need a reusable water bottle
Six reasons why you need a reusable water bottle

“Bottled water companies don't produce water, they produce plastic bottles”. Some might argue that the quality of bottled water is better, but studies have shown that most bottled water is simply tap water that has been filtered and bottled at up to 1000x the price. Obviously, price is not the only reason to make the change from single-use bottles to reusable ones. There are so many reasons why a reusable bottle is preferred over plastic ones, but I think with these six you will have plenty of reasons to convert you, if you have not already made the switch.

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LifestyleArlette Diederiksreusable water bottle, reusables, PET bottles, plastic bottles, chemicals in plastics, toxins in plastics, leaching plastic, antimony trioxide, Single-use plastics, single-use water bottles, ditch single-use, Klean Kanteen, LARQ, S´Well, BKR, Mybkr, Liewood, Life Factory, Simple Modern, Reusable bottle for kids, cute designComment
Milo Cress
Milo Cress

In 2011, when he was only 9 years old, Milo Cress started to convince restaurants to stop automatically bringing a straw with every drink. His project, Be Straw Free, not only focuses on restaurants but also motivates consumers to order their drinks without a straw whenever they don’t want or need to use one. Straws are items that in most cases are not needed, so not serving them is not only a cost saver for restaurants, but it also made customers more aware of plastic they use and eventually throw away.

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Inspiring PeopleArlette DiederiksMilo Cress, Be Straw Free, No more straws, plastic straws, offer first, upon request, plastic waste, oceans, microplastics, 500 million plastic straws, Ocean Collectiv, marine biologist, Kara Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Single-use plasticsComment
A Circular Economy
A Circular Economy

The problem of plastic pollution has been gaining more attention lately and more and more people have come to realize that recycling will just not be enough to stop or even reduce the enormous amounts of plastics entering the environment. The problem of plastic pollution starts long before it reaches our oceans, rivers and beaches. Too many barrels of oil are turned into plastic, and plastic packaging is designed without fully considering what happens to it after it’s used.

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My Green Goodie InfoArlette DiederiksCircular economy, Plastic Pollution, Single-use plastics, Recycling, Cleanups, cycles, economic system, regenerative, technical sycle, biological cycle, New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, United Nations Environment program, Ellen McArthur Foundation, Ellen McArthur, The Alliance to End plastic Waste, AEWP, Shell, ExxonMobil, plastic production, Rob Buurman, Recycling Netwerk, NGO, plastics industry, PET, polyethylene, ocean, ocean plastics, Carbon footprint, 8 billion treesComment
Good news
Good news

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great break and that you have started the new year with some sustainable resolutions. In 2018 several positive things happened around the world and I thought I´d share some of this good news with you to start the new year on a positive note.

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Recycling in the EU
Recycling in the EU

Much of what we consider as trash and throw away in the bin can actually be recycled. Recycling is better for the environment by sending less waste to landfills and by providing materials for new products. Unfortunately, recycling rates are not as high as could be. In Europe recycling rates differ much between countries.

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My Green Goodie InfoArlette DiederiksRecycling, Recycling Europe, EC, European Commission, Recycling rates, Waste, waste management, trash, garbage, plastics, Single-use plastics, reusable, plastic economy, Circular economy, plastic tax, Frans Timmermans, Delphine Lévi Alvarès, Rethink Plastic, Bureau of International Recycling, Mageswari Sangaralingam, Landfill Directive, revised Landfill Directive, municipal waste, CEWEP, Ella StenglerComment
Plastic pollution
Plastic pollution

The problems with plastic pollution are getting worse by the day. The estimated 8 million tons (yes, really) of plastic that ends up in the ocean every year is expected to double by 2025 and is estimated to rise to 60 tons per minute by 2050 if today's plastic use and lack of adequate waste management continues. These vast amounts of plastic have increasing impact on the environment and marine life.

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My Green Goodie InfoArlette DiederiksPlastic Pollution, A plastic ocean, Ocean plastics, Pollution, Plastic bag ban, Plastic bags, Single-use plastics, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Microplastics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Montreal protocol, climate treaty, Donal Trump, United Nationas, United Nations, Straws, Alternative plasticsComment