pollution

Happy July 1st, my friends! Yes, it’s already July if you can believe it. With the seventh month of the year comes picnics, water lilies, Independence Day in the US, and some of the warmest temperatures of the year. But…Read More

Remember a year ago? It was all about banning plastic straws. Everything was black and white, plastic was bad and everything else was good. The checkout line at Whole Foods, Tribeca, NYC, was the great humiliator, and as I always…Read More

The graveyard of electronic devices is filled with the decaying corpses of discarded batteries, ’turtleneck’ charging cables, iDogs, the famous Razor flip-phone, and even the odd iPod nano. But it is also the new home of much more recent devices,…Read More

Imagine a river filled to the brim with all the toxic materials and waste your city creates. Don’t forget to include the herbicides from farms, the metals from roofs, and the petroleum from cars. Now imagine the rain comes and…Read More

What is spread out to be twice the size of Texas and weighs the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets? You guessed it…the largest of five offshore plastic collections in our oceans. Located between California and Hawaii, the Great Pacific Garbage…Read More

Over the past month American Airlines, Starbucks and the state of Seattle have announced they’re going straw-free for very important reasons. On a daily basis, over 500 million straws are used. Straws are the main single-use plastic item that ends…Read More

The average American produces around 4.3 pounds of trash every single day, 1.6 pounds more than each American produced in 1960. With 365 days in a year that amounts to over 1,500 pounds of trash created by a single person…there…Read More