Green (Living) Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) In October 2013, after the gods only know how long, it was announced that the government has at long last decided to follow the lead of some other countries by introducing a charge, albeit a paltry 5 pence, which is about 8 cents Euro and about the same in US money, for plastic bags from 2015. The problem with biodegradable shopping bags is that they are still plastic and the biodegradable part to this is rather a questionable one as well.

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Green Living Tips

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Here's some links to interesting and useful craft items you can make from plastic bags, complete with photos and instructions Handy with knitting needles, a sewing machine or crochet hooks?

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Successful Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Engineers at MIT have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags. Polyethylene is thin and lightweight, and could keep... The post Recycled plastic bags turn into fabrics appeared first on successful GREEN.

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Green Home Blog

AUGUST 15, 2012

Plastic Bag Ban: A Tale of Two Cities. The photo above depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the U.S. In the war for and against the ubiquitous plastic bag – a symbol of all that is right, and wrong, about America – two cities stand as examples: Seattle, Washington and Swan Quarter, North Carolina. Carolina, a city along the Atlantic coast in a state which, in late June of 2009, passed a bag ban, S.L

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Green (Living) Review

JANUARY 4, 2015

Even with the confusion, most people agree plastic bags suck. Perhaps sensing that we’re finally catching on, plastic bag makers have unleashed the greenwashers to make tiny changes to their product (like add a little metal) and then make up stories about how the “new” bags just disappear like magic. Last year, the FTC cracked down on unsubstantiated claims of “biodegradable” and “compostable” bags. Reducing waste is hard.

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Greentumble

MAY 7, 2018

Plastic bags cause many negative effects for. We use plastic bags out of convenience and ignorance of their seriously negative consequences. Plastic waste affects all types of biomes and organisms. . Plastic bags continually cause harm to natural environments from the beginning to the end of their life cycle. The energy intensive plastic bag production. Plastic bags are obviously made of plastic; but what is plastic? .

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Greentumble

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Plastic bags are a convenient way to carry. In fact, it is estimated that up to 10 million plastic bags are used every minute around the world [1]. 300 to 700 plastic bags pass through the hands of an average American in just one year [8] and a survey of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs concluded that the average household in the United Kingdom stores around 40 plastic shopping bags at home [2]. Plastic bags.

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Greentumble

MAY 9, 2018

with the huge amounts of plastic being used and produced. Plastic bags are a major driving force in this problem, with over 5 trillion plastic bags being used yearly and almost all of those being discarded after a single use. Reducing plastic bag usage has been at the forefront of the agenda for many environmental groups and government organizations. These two alternatives are biodegradable plastic bags and compostable plastic bags. .

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Ideally, we should avoid single-use plastic bags and plastic film. … The post Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners appeared first on Earth 911. Go here to see the original: Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners.

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Greentumble

MAY 1, 2018

One trillion plastic bags are used and. Most of these bags are made from petroleum. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 12 million barrels of oil are used annually to make plastic bags [1]. The manufacturing of plastic bags adds many tons of carbon and toxic chemicals into the atmosphere as well [2]. Of the one trillion bags used, less than five percent are recycled [3]. Do plastic bags ever decompose?

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) announced plans to ban the use of plastic bags starting next year. The ruling also applies to plastic containers that come in direct contact with food products (think take-away and deli counter sales). The action seeks to safeguard public health and address excessive use of disposable plastic products.“The Overusing plastic in direct contact with food transfers unhealthy chemicals to the food.” Want a plastic sack?

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Greentumble

APRIL 29, 2018

Since the late 1970s, plastic bags have. The reality is that over the past 40 years plastic bag usage has skyrocketed and has caused drastic problems for natural ecosystems. Plastic bags are often eaten by animals, causing them to choke and die. Even though the usage of plastic bags is still slowly on the rise, many countries have started to become aware of the environmental damage they can cause. Countries that have banned plastic bags.

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Greentumble

MAY 1, 2018

For billions of people plastic bags are an efficient and cheap way to transport goods. As the production of plastic bags continues to increase worldwide we must ask, what are the environmental drawbacks of our obsession with plastic bags? How can we address consumption trends where plastic bags are often used only one time? How can we make the bags themselves from environmentally friendly materials? What are plastic bags made of?

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Green Home Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Impact of Plastic Bags on the Environment: - Well over a billion single-use plastic bags are given out for free each day. Production Costs: - The production of plastic bags requires petroleum and often natural gas, both non-renewable resources that increase our dependency on foreign suppliers. The toxic chemical ingredients needed to make plastic produces pollution during the manufacturing process. -

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Grocers Support Ditching Single-use Plastic Bags Walmart, Target, and CVS … The post Earth911 Reader — Business: Retailers Ditching Plastic Bags, The Social Cost of Carbon and Recyclable Snack Wrappers appeared first on Earth 911.

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Green (Living) Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

UK is leading opposition to a proposal for an 80% cut to the 100bn single-use plastic bags used each year in Europe A bid by the European parliament to impose an 80% cut in the 100bn plastic bags used by Europeans each year could be scuppered by several states opposed to Europe-wide action, and a European commission that increasingly views targets as an unnecessary distraction. green living plastic bags UK

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Eco Chic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

But seriously, this evening, governor Jerry Brown announced a plastic bag ban for the ENTIRE state —and check your maps, California is HUGE! From the Sierra Nevadas to the Pacific, from NorCal to SoCal, from Hollywood to Hippie enclaves, from desert to redwoods, plastic bans are now a shrinking commodity, less likely to pollute our lakes, streams and the oceans, blow into trees and stay there approximately forever, and less likely to get eaten by marine animals.

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Green Prophet

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Colorful plastic bags are both the canvas and the paints in Aviva Sawicki’s artworks. Plastic bags are a ubiquitous and un-eco-friendly material that many sustainable and upcycling designers have tried to reuse. One designer has turned plastic bags into shoes , another has made plastic bag wallets , and plastic bags can even be used as crocheting material to knit reusable shopping bags.

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Green Prophet

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Get one up on Rumpelstiltskin by turning plastic shopping sacks into uber-artsy bookmarks. . At all times keep your plastic sandwiched between the limits of the parchment paper. The Research: Plastic shopping bags come in different breeds: posh-store thick, biodegradable, made-from-recycled-materials, and your basic landfill fodder. Get some clear plastic bags too: here’s where posh-store deluxe is useful as a thick clear sheet makes a fine coating layer.

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Environmental Economics

MAY 8, 2013

The plastic bag solution. They’re called bag taxes. In 2002, Ireland started charging shoppers 15 eurocents a plastic bag. The result: bag use plummeted 90 percent. That's a billion bags a year. began charging 5 cents per disposable bag, paper or plastic. As a result, plastic bag use declined 80 percent within a year by some estimates. It’s quite a leap from plastic bags to carbon prices.

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Green Home Blog

JANUARY 16, 2013

A Day in the Life of a Plastic Bag. Plastic first appeared on the scene in 1862, at the Great International Exhibit in London. Plastic’s inventor was named Alexander Parks, and his version of this almost ubiquitous substance was a cellulosic compound made from nitrocellulose and camphor that he called xylonite, or parkesine. They are: Low-density polyethylene (LDPE), dry cleaner’s bags. High-density polyethylene (HDPE), or the typical grocery bag.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

‘Balash Kees’ is a new campaign launched by UNESCO Amman to help reduce the use of plastic bags in Jordan. Walk around Jordan and you’ll realise pretty quickly that the country has a huge plastic bag and litter problem. Cheap black plastic bags are literally everywhere and they are a real eyesore. Stay away from plastic bags. The poster explains that over 60,000 sheep in Jordan die due to eating plastic bags.

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Green Earth Journey

JULY 30, 2009

A strict Chinese limit on ultra-thin plastic bags significantly reduced bag-related pollution nationwide during the past year. The country avoided the use of 40 billion bags, according to government estimates. Plastic bags are commonly found in waterways, on beaches, and in other "unofficial" dumping sites across China. Litter caused by the notorious bags has been referred to as "white pollution." The limit in bag production saved China 1.6

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Green Prophet

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Made from sawdust and plastic bags alone, these adhesive-free lamps take leftover materials and make them shine again. Plastic bags are an (unfortunately) abundant material that have been used in many ways by designers, but sawdust – though abundant as well – has not been used as frequently by sustainable Middle Eastern designers. The semi-translucent nature of the plastic bags in the lamps creates a warm glow.

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Eco Friendly Daily

MAY 18, 2013

Many cities have made the decision to ban plastic bags. Plastic presents a serious environmental threat in terms of landfill waste and longevity in the environment. However, is plastic really the villain as it is portrayed? The Bad Side of Plastic Bags. Plastic bags have a major failing. The plastic bags that you get at the store are made of a chemical that decomposing bacteria do not recognize as food.

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Eco Chic

JUNE 30, 2014

Practically every school day growing up, I’d sit down to the cafeteria table to eat my lunch and I’d pull out a PB&J that my mother had stuffed into a Ziploc ® bag. I then upgraded to much fancier sandwiches wedged into plastic bags; turkey and swiss, jelly and cream cheese, and the like. Ziploc bags, when clean and dry, are recyclable at more than 18,000 retail locations – including large retailers such as Target and Walmart. Plastic grocery bags.

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Green Prophet

MAY 17, 2011

The plastic bag story isn’t over yet, but it’s definitely on the right track. United Arab Emirates’ residents are awash with excitement over the Ministry of Environment and Water’s moves to ban conventional plastic bags by 2013. Plastic bags are the bane of natural existence. Engineer Mohammad Saleh Badin, the authority’s Acting Director General, told the paper that all plastic bags must be biodegradeable by 2013.

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Green (Living) Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Cairo's Reform Studio is turning trash into treasure with its Plastex material, which is woven from plastic bags using Egyptian handlooms. Plastic shopping bags, as useful as they are for the 12 minutes when they're in use, are a curse on our planet.

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The Go Green Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

I love this crocheted rug created from upcycled plastic bags by RecycleCindy over at My Recycled Bags. Cindy used recycled bags from bread, hotdog & hamburger buns, paper towel & TP packaging, etc. She first makes her plastic yarn (or “plarn&# ), then uses an N (9) crochet hook and does a single crochet throughout. I think these rugs are just a super fun throwback and a great way to recycle your plastic trash.

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Green Prophet

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Take our plastic bag challenge. Tell the clerk you’ll pass on that bag, instead tuck your purchases into your pockets or purse. You bolder folks, ask the managers if they’d switch to biodegradable or sell reusable bags. Plastic trash is everywhere. It’s hard to take a photo where a bag isn’t perched in a tree, nesting in a wall or flying in a breeze. Plastic bags carpet the cave floor , blown in across miles of remote flatland.

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Green Living Ideas

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

If you''re not already shopping without plastic bags, we have 5 strategies that will help you make the switch and help you boost your green lifestyle. The post Shopping without Plastic Bags: 5 Simple Strategies appeared first on Green Living Ideas. Eco Home Living eco-home green living plastics Reuse shopping shopping without plastic

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Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) The world's first Plastic Bag Free Day – organized by the Marine Conservation Society – will be on 12th September 2009. They are asking shoppers to ditch plastic bags for good and to just take a reusable bag with then when they go to the stores. There are many ways that you can support Plastic Bag Free day. Take you own reusable shoppers and leave plastic bags at the checkout.

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Green Prophet

DECEMBER 16, 2012

In a well-meaning effort to rid Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other emirates from plastic bags , the United Arab Emirates government has banned the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags. But critics worry that these bags, which are said to break down faster than conventional plastic bags, can’t be recycled. This move comes after a succession of stories revealed the deleterious impact that plastic has on the environment.

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Green (Living) Review

MAY 12, 2011

By Michael Smith (Veshengro) If you still get plastic bags every time you go to the grocery store then, I am sorry, you really don't care about people or the Planet. While it may be that the plastic bags aren't really made from virgin oil – they are made from naphthalene, a byproduct of petroleum refining – they are still an environmental problem. This is done in an attempt for you, the consumer, to bring your own bags. No need for plastic one way bags.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 8, 2021

Artist Hugo McCloud, known for using unusual medium choices such as aluminum sheeting, tar paper, scrap metal and solder, spent his quarantine in Mexico, layering together tiny pieces of plastic bag waste. Artist Hugo McCloud spotlights waste with art made of plastic bags.

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Green (Living) Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

By Michael Smith (Veshengro) After a number of years of decline, the use of plastic bags by shoppers in the United Kingdom has risen again in 2010, so government authorities said. Usage had had gone down by 40 percent after 2006 when the government, retailers and environmental advocates led a campaign to cut down on the 11 billion plastic bags Britons used annually. But it's time to accept bags are not the be-all and end-all of environmental issues.”

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Green Prophet

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Recyclable plastics or wastes for the dump? Plastic items that usually get discarded and wind up being buried in landfills or washed out to sea are serious issues brought up during annual events like Earth Day. The seriousness of large amounts of plastic debris in the worlds seas and oceans have raised fears of giant plastic garbage patches in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as in the Mediterranean Sea. The choice is ours.

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Eco Friendly Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The well known home furnishing store IKEA, will begin charging customers for plastic bags with the plan to eventually stop using them altogether. IKEA will charge customers five cents per bag. Each year the world wide chain provides 70 million bags to its U.S. The store already offers reusable bags for 99 cents and plans to cut that charge to 59 cents to help encourage consumers to use them. throws away 100 billion bags each year.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JULY 1, 2013

It is no surprise that many governments, whether they be national or local, are looking towards banning the use of plastic bags. The reports are endless regarding the build-up of plastics in our oceans and the subsequent deaths of marine animals and the increasingly poisoned seas. There are many well-known floating islands of plastic across the globe, plastics which are breaking down and harming life on the planet.

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Eco Friendly Daily

MARCH 20, 2013

As I lay there pondering the pros and cons, I let my mind wander to garbage in general, and to Janice Harris, a District of North Vancouver councilor who is advocating a national 25 cent tax on plastic grocery bags. billion plastic grocery bags used by the Irish consumer, which was intended to curb their use. In the first year that the program was implemented, the number of grocery bags being used by the Irish fell from 1.2 Is the issue about grocery bags?

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Green (Living) Review

JULY 29, 2017

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) I am one of those people who take reuse and all what is related to that to another dimension at times, as regular readers will know, and I do, yes, tend to keep those bags from frozen food. Alas, they then come in those bags. Sandwich bags : Now this is, more or less, a use that should stare everyone straight in the face. Basically anything you would use a small plastic bag for.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JULY 15, 2013

According to the study that was sponsored by the plastic industry in Canada, which was done by independent labs, 64. percent of the bags were contaminated with some sort of bacteria. vegetables, fruits and other foods that go into the bags, as well as. from wherever the bags are being stored, including under the sink. just need to wash their bags and it is not the bags themselves creating. It is not as if people are sharing reusable bags at the store and.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 8, 2013

Plastic bags seem to be an ever-present part of American society. Many Americans fight their environmentally damaging presence by using reusable canvas bags for shopping, yet they are still in the minority and plastic bags continue to spring up everywhere. Most plastic bags are made from petrochemicals (yes, petroleum as in oil), a non-renuable resource.

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