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Strawless. Credit: Horia Varlan, FlickrCC.

Strawless in Seattle: Why Are Straws So Bad for the Environment?

The average American uses more than 38,000 straws over a lifetime without thinking about the implications of all this plastic going to waste and polluting our oceans.

Tips to Prevent Recycling the Wrong Items

While it’s important to recycle, how you do the deed can affect the impact you have on the environment and your household budget…

Eco-Friendly Products Put Ocean Plastic Waste to Good Use

Method Home, Lush, Dell, G-Star RAW and Norton Sunglasses are among the companies putting plastic ocean waste to use in their products & packaging.

Is Polyester Fleece Trashing Our Oceans?

Polyester fleece clothing sure is cozy and comfy, but it just may be trashing our oceans by shedding microfibers in our washing machines that are too small for wastewater treatment facilities to filter out.

Are 3D Printers Safe to Use?

Are 3d printers safe to use? High-tech gizmos could revolutionize manufacturing, but let’s work out the health & environmental kinks first…

Where did the plastic bags go?

Dear EarthTalk: What’s the latest on efforts to ban plastic bags? How many U.S. locales have instituted some kind of ban, and have these initiatives made a dent in the amount of plastic litter? — Melinda Clarke, New York, NY California made big news recently when it announced the first statewide ban on plastic shopping bags […]

Microbeads & Marine Pollution in the Great Lakes & Beyond

Plastic microbeads are a concern because sewage treatment facilities are not designed to capture them, and during rainy days sewage can overflow into waterways. Once they enter waterways, microbeads move into fish, which confuse them for food, then into those who eat the fish, including wildlife and humans.

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