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  1. Recycling in Phoenix Encouraged; Plastic Continuing to Gum the Drains and Bins

    Recycling in Phoenix Encouraged; Plastic Continuing to Gum the Drains and Bins

    Since quite a few years, Phoenix, Arizona has been trying to make the country a greener region by asking its residents to stop throwing the plastic shopping bags in the garbage bins and drains. Despite all the city officials’ efforts, citizens are still continuing to throw single-use plastics into bins, costing the city almost $1 […]

  2. Reusable Regatta Makes Way for Sustainability Day in North Carolina

    Reusable Regatta Makes Way for Sustainability Day in North Carolina

    The University of North Carolina is getting ready to celebrate Campus Sustainability Day this year, after the huge success of last year, wherein students came dressed in costumes made out of recycled materials. Campus Sustainability Day this year plans to take things a notch higher than last year by presenting two major events: the Reusable […]

  3. Boulder, Colorado Plans to Host Open House for Proposed Fee on Bag

    Boulder, Colorado Plans to Host Open House for Proposed Fee on Bag

    The city of Boulder in Colorado, USA, is planning to hold an open house soon on one of the weekday’s evenings in order to get the residents’ opinion regarding the proposed few on disposable bags. According to a recent proposal the council members have been looking into, shoppers will be charged a fee of twenty […]

  4. Dispose Of Those Paint Cans in an Eco-Friendly Manner

    Dispose Of Those Paint Cans in an Eco-Friendly Manner

    Recycling any type of resource is no longer an option for people in most states of the United States of America. It is now considered to be a way of life. The need of the hour is for people to be environmentally friendly as the climate changes due to global warming; rising levels of pollution […]

  5. Banning of Plastic Bags in Darien is Finally Part of the RTM Agenda

    Banning of Plastic Bags in Darien is Finally Part of the RTM Agenda

    The final step towards banning single-use plastic covers and bags in Darien seems to be on the horizon at the moment as the Representative Town Meeting has finally decided to discuss and vote on the matter on September 24th. Karen Armour, who is the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) moderator and also the Rule Committee Chairman […]

  6. Over One Million Plastic Shopping Bags Removed from Pay-Less Supermarkets

    Over One Million Plastic Shopping Bags Removed from Pay-Less Supermarkets

    According to the Pay-Less Supermarkets’ announcement recently, the company has stopped the circulation of plastic bags in all its stores and has reached its goal of getting rid of almost 1.1 million bags. The promotion, which is also called as ‘Mission Zero Bags’, was first launched in January and Pay-Less Supermarkets had kept the end […]

  7. Boulder City Might Put 20-Cent Fee on Disposable Plastic and Paper Bags

    Boulder City Might Put 20-Cent Fee on Disposable Plastic and Paper Bags

    What Boulder city, Colorado officials are aiming at is to reduce the usage of single-use plastics and disposable paper bags, and instead promote wholesale reusable bags.  Shoppers in Boulder, Colorado may very soon end up paying a 20-cent bag fee if they choose to use a paper or plastic disposable grocery bag. The environmental official […]

  8. Burt's Bees and Gap Inc. Are Going ‘Un-Plastic' with New Sustainable Packaging

    Burt's Bees and Gap Inc. Are Going ‘Un-Plastic' with New Sustainable Packaging

    Monadnock Paper Mills is one of the oldest and continuously operating paper mills in the USA. It was founded in 1819 and currently operates from Bennington,NH. The paper mill company has exemplified the transforming mind-sets of other brands by willing to change all their process in order to ensure performance with conscience. A bunch of […]

  9. Say No to Disposable Sandwich Wraps; Yes to Imprinted Reusable Bags

    Say No to Disposable Sandwich Wraps; Yes to Imprinted Reusable Bags

    Plastics covers and bags take almost thousands of years to disintegrate and in the process release a lot of harmful substances and are toxic to the environment. It is found that in a year, almost 60 pounds of trash is generated by one person and all of this is lunch waste. If this is the […]

  10. Town of Telluride Adapts to Plastic Bags-Free Life

    Town of Telluride Adapts to Plastic Bags-Free Life

    It has been almost 18 months since the town of Telluride decided to ban usage of plastic bags and since then residents have easily and quickly accepted wholesale reusable bags and organic paper bags as the best alternative. In fact, even the retail stores are spreading the word. When you reach the door of Clark’s […]

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