by Joe Barrios on January 2, 2011
in Recycling
Curing addictions isn’t easy, especially when the substance used excessively is plastic. OK, it may be an addiction out of convenience, laziness, or habit but it’s still a problem. It’s not that plastic is a terrible material across the board, but as with anything not used in moderation, the results can be complicated. In the [...]
If you recycle you’ve probably turned over a plastic container to read the number on the bottom, the one surrounded by the little recycling symbol. Many recycling programs depend on these numbers to tell you which plastics you can and can’t recycle. Do you know what these numbers mean? Did you know these numbers tell [...]
by Joe Barrios on February 5, 2009
in Recycling
I didn’t know until recently that you can make fantastic clothing fabric from recycled plastic bottles. One night a couple of months ago I was helping the Director of the environmental non-profit I volunteer for, as she gave a recycling presentation to a group of individuals studying English as a second language. My role was [...]
There is an ecological emergency out there, out of sight and mind of just about everyone. It’s an area twice the size of the continental US in the North Pacific ocean, a graveyard where every piece of plastic dumped into the oceans and rivers eventually goes to (never) die. Sea currents carry any plastic that [...]