Learning to Re-use

Along with recycling, reuse is one of the most common Eco words frequently spoken by environmentalists, the press, and general public. Try to cast aside the often debated joy of purchasing brand new items and instead choose the greener choice of not so new but still as good products!   Charity is one of the [...]

More and More Cities Ban Plastic Bags

The word is truly out. Plastic is bad and plastic doesn’t decompose and fills-up the landfill of garbage for a very long time. With this knowledge in mind, more cities across America are proposing the banning of plastic bag use altogether. Long Beach in California has just passed this resolution, in the hopes of reducing [...]

Last Minute Christmas Shopping? Don’t Forget Your Green Bag!

With a few days to go before Christmas, I’m sure a lot of you are already scrambling to finish your shopping list. In the madness and the rush, please do not forget to bring your green bags with you when you shop. Please also refuse any plastic containers and put all your purchases in the [...]

50 Ways to Reuse Your Grocery Bags

The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the world consumes somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags each year, with millions ending up in landfills, oceans, lakes, rivers, trees, streets and who knows where else. Many of these perfectly good plastic bags served one purpose — to carry groceries home and were tossed [...]

Plastic Bags Use Significantly Reduces in the UK

Using plastic bags in supermarket and other stores have actually greatly reduced according to the Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap). This is for establishments all across the United Kingdom. According to Marks & Spencer: “We started charging for food carrier bags in all stores in May 2008. Last year we used 89m single-use carrier [...]

School Lunches? Mind Your Wastes

It’s back to school time. For parents this means it is back to preparing school lunches for their younger kids. To me this is always a real challenge as it’s sometimes hard to come up with good, healthy food for your kids. It’s also a challenge because when they come home the end of the [...]

Puma goes Eco

Its a big day for the planet as we know it when a huge manufacturing giant goes Eco! Today is no exception with the amazing news that popular sportswear favorite Puma has decided to ditch the typical cardboard shoe boxes you receive your sneakers in for a more environmentally friendly bag. A decision like this [...]

Bags for all occasions

A bag can be crucial to getting around during the day, for women it could be their handbag with all personal items in it. Men could have a lunch bag or briefcase, kids have their school bags. We all need them at one time or another. Whatever your reason and purpose for using a bag [...]

Target offers Cash for Plastics

At least two big retails stores are coming up with a decent incentive that may accomplish two things: assist consumers and help save the environment. Target and CVS, both very recognized and frequented by the general American buying public, are offering a cash incentive program for any of their customers who would prefer not to [...]

Summer snacks with an Eco – twist!

It is getting closer to that time again, the time when people spend as much time as they can outdoors and the days get longer while the nights get shorter, it’s the perfect time for saving energy as more sunlight equals less lights needed in houses and such, since most of us will be spending [...]