Earth Day 2023
Mark your calendars everybody, because on Saturday, April 22 is Earth Day! Earth Day is an annual event celebrated to promote environmental awareness and encourage people to take action to protect the planet. It...
Tagged: sustainability
Can Plastic-Eating Enzymes Save Our Planet?
For our whole lives, we’ve always heard that if not recycled, plastics will never go away, or at least will take hundreds of years to decompose, polluting oceans and harming sea life. While...
Bamboo: A Revolutionary Plant-Based Swap
I am aware that giving up plastics is a very challenging task; typically, it is more expensive, harder to locate, and requires extensive research. After accounting for things like electricity or water consumption, these...
What am I really eating?
From the gallon of milk you bought the other day, or the bottled water you drank from this morning, I think we can all agree that plastic is everywhere. Have you ever wondered where...
Don’t Coddle the Plastic Bottle
I get it. Completely cutting the use of plastic out of your life can be a difficult, even unrealistic task. However, swapping a few things here and there, if done by large amounts of...
What are Zero-Waste Grocery Stores?
Plastic packaging is on almost every shelf of the grocery store, even for products that don’t need it. Every year there are 14 million tons of plastic packaging waste just in the United States....
Purging Plastic From Your Bathroom: 5 Changes You Can Make Today
Do you know how much plastic is in your bathroom cabinet and shower? Chances are, almost everything in your bathroom is either entirely or partially plastic. But it isn’t your fault, almost all bathroom...