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March Madness with Susquehanna Plastic Pick’n 1000!
John Naylor, a former Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association (LSRA) Board member and founder of Susquehanna Plastic Pick’n 1000 (SPP1K), has another idea for getting plastic out of the Susquehanna River. This one started with a conversation John had with Daryl … Continue reading
Zoom In On the Conejohela Flats, Part 3
Among the leaf litter, we discover plastic as numerous as it appeared on the banks from a distance. We find bottle caps, spent lighters, shreds of plastic bags, and Styrofoam bits everywhere. We see broken bits of plastic, no longer … Continue reading
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Tagged eco-friendly, environment, plastic, plastic pollution, Sustainability
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Zoom In On the Conejohela Flats – Part 2
“We step gingerly and feel ahead before we press down firmly. When we kick an underwater object in the Flats, there are good odds that it might just be a radial tire. *** While we can’t agree on which fish … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, health, microplastics, plastic, plastic pollution
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Plastic-Free Life
[Fruits for a plastic-free life unite.] Plastic-Free Life I think I’m just one of those people that needs a mission. This week I decided that if I’m ever going to even approach a Zero Waste Life, I need to find … Continue reading
Posted in conservation, environment, environmental conservation, environmental effects, plastic bag, plastics, saving the world, single use plastic, Uncategorized, waste, water, water conservation, zero waste
Tagged #save the world, #startamovement, conservation, environment, environmental conservation, plastic, plastic bags, single use plastic, waste, water, water conservation, zero waste
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Kill the K-cup
Kill the K-cup Keurig really should have figured out it would be in trouble from the get-go. It’s not just the environmental effects of all those pods that produce waste in the billions of pounds, but it’s the contaminants … Continue reading
Posted in conscious-driven business, consumer safety, dioxin, environmental effects, landfill, plastics, recovery, recycling, trash
Tagged #AtoZ, #atozchallenge, blog, blogging, conscious-driven business, dioxin, environmental effects, Kill the K-cup!, landfill, plastic, recovery, recylcing, trash
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I Just Want to Say One Word to You…
I Just Want to Say One Word to You… Imagine sitting on a beach. It’s hot. You’re thirsty. So you pull one of those handy plastic bottles from your cooler, take a big swig and are instantly refreshed. Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Bancroft, blog, Dustin Hoffman, eco-friendly, EPA Headquarters, federal recycling law, I just want to say one word to you, Katherine Ross, micro beads, microplastics, New Zealand, plastic, plastic bags, plastics in water, swimming in plastic, tap water, The Graduate, Trump Tower, well water, writing
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When Chemicals Combine
When Chemicals Combine It’s a tenet of the modern age that if you are alive and thriving on our planet, walking around in a “meat suit” — to steal a term from the TV show, “Supernatural” — you are likely … Continue reading
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Tagged arsenic, clean water, EPA, FDA, George de Mestral, Gore-Tex, herbicides, insecticides, MCLs, meat suit, naturally occurring, pesticides, plastic, purification, risk assessment, sandwich bags, Society of Chemical Manufacturers, supernatural, Velcro, water, water bottles, when chemicals combine
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Kill the K-cup!
Day 11 of the #AtoZChallenge Kill the K-Cup Kill the K-cup! Watch the video. It’s hilarious, and true from a too much plastic perspective, and scary, but only in the environmental sense, not the possible K-alien sense. Also, Kiss someone … Continue reading
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Tagged alien invasion, Kill the K-cup!, Kindness, Kiss, Kwabs, plastic, Walk
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