Plastic Bottles

The Water Bottle That Syncs With Your iPhone

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.25.2012

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Americans buy nearly a billion bottles per week, according to some estimates. From the 51 billion total purchased per year, less than a quarter are re...

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Green Team Cuts Down On Water Waste

Posted 04.25.2012

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Day 7: Earth Week Challenge -- Waste Less Water From April 16-22, HuffPost Green has invited you to take on one simple endeavor per day to reduce y...

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Grand Canyon Banning Sale Of Plastic Water Bottles

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Disposable plastic water bottles soon won't be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Mon...

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Finding Fortune in Plastic

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Environment, Plastic Bottles, Plastic, Pollution, Plastic Bags, Water, Ocean, Project Kaisei, Plastic Pollution, Plastic Recycling, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Plastic Bag Ban, Recycled Plastic Bottles, Green News
Rahilla Zafar

Unlike air pollution which we can see and smell, most think plastic is harmless, or merely an aesthetic eyesore when seen on the ground or in the water, Woodring says, and is perceived of as less of a planetary problem by the public.

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Join the Resistance: The Power of No

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Plastic Pollution Coalition, Junk Food, Columbia, Plastic Bottles, Addiction, Plastic Bags, Plastic Packaging, Capitalism, Crossed-Legs Strike, Oscar De La Hoya, Healthy Living News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Self-examination can be challenging and scary. But the rewards to true awareness of our own excesses can be the path to a much better life.

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Avoiding Bottled Water Even While Abroad

Pam Grout | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Tandana Foundation, Ecuador, Andes, Water, Steripen, Quichinche, Travel News
Pam Grout

Here's a raised glass of water to SteriPEN and the amazing technology that keeps travelers safe no matter where they are.

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Brief From Bonnaroo: Tennessee Trash

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.17.2011

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Lisa Kaas Boyle

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s in Tennessee can sing a bit of "Tennessee Trash," a comic and catchy PSA that was sponsored by the State Department of Transportation to discourage littering.

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It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish

Diane Dulken | Posted 08.21.2011

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Diane Dulken

Walking into a neighborhood grocery store, I saw a sculpture of heartbreaking beauty: a giant jellyfish made of plastic bottle tentacles and a body of jumbled plastic bags and debris.

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I'll Have the Can, Hold the Cups

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Schwab

Tell the flight attendants you want just the can, no napkin, next time you need a shot of carbonated caffeine while in the air. Why use so many plastic cups, and what happens to them when the plane lands?

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Hydros Bottle Is Gift Of 2010

Saul Garlick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Water Crisis, Plastic Bottles, Water, Bottled Water, Christmas Shopping, Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Hydros, Impact News
Saul Garlick

Hydros is more than a company -- it is an investor in solving the global water crisis. We should all take the extra step and buy bottles that provide an extra layer of safety and health.

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Youth Movement to Reduce Plastic Pollution

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Santa Monica High School, Elkay Hydration Stations, Plastic Pollution, Tedx, Team Marine, Jordan Howard, JD Russo, Asthma, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Autism, Cancer, Plastic Bag Ban, Plastic Bottles, Brentwood School, Heal the Bay, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

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The Great Disposable Plastic Spill

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Kaas Boyle

The old 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle don't begin to deal with the problem of synthetic pollution made from petrochemicals that has steadily increased since its introduction in the late 1950's.

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Love Match: NRDC and a Greener US Open

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Green Cleaning, Post-Consumer Recycled Paper, Usta, US Open, Compost, Food Waste, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Wendy Gordon

The US Tennis Association is greening their operations because it's smart and responsible business -- but also because they want to show their fans that it can be done on any scale.

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High-Grade Goods: Take Back-to-School Shopping Back to the Earth

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laptop, Water Bottles, Charity, Thrift Store, Paper Mate, Green, Caffeine, Postconsumer Waste, Eco, Banana, Recycled, Lunch Box, Mugs, Dvds, Vaio, Donate, Boxes, Plastic, Ebay, Leftovers, Shopping, Bisphenol A, Plastic Bottles, Hanging Organizer, Packaging, Cds, Dorm, Reusable, Cafeteria, Facebook, Sugar, Back to School, Costa Rica, Containers, Sony, Responsible, Plants, Stainless Steel, Vintage, Nature, Environment, Led, Notebooks, Bpa, Biodegradable, Emoticons, Pens, Earthlust, Lunchbots, Green News
Avital Binshtock

These pens and mechanical pencils from Paper Mate look and feel like regular plastic but are made of biodegradable sugar-plant parts. Their packaging is plastic-free and 100 percent recyclable.

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Ten Anti-Plastic Heroes

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Newman

For Earth Week, I'm profiling anti-plastic heroes who are artists, activists, politicians and even corporations who are offering inspiring ways to cut plastic consumption.

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Putting the "I" in the Environment After the Gulf Spill

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

Those photographs of sludge-soaked pelicans are painful to behold. It's those hollow pupils peeking out of the brown death. They are an avian version of the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg that Fitzgerald once wrote about -- and they implicate us all.

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Don't *@#! Where You Eat

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Graham Hill

Day in, day out, it feels like the exact same scene. A 360-degree view to the horizon consisting of big dark waves, the odd bird or flying fish and nary a boat, island or anything else of interest.

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Bottled vs. Tap -- What's the Difference?

Margaret Hyde | Posted 05.25.2011

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Margaret Hyde

In my quest to consume less plastic and protect my children, I had my water tested by several companies.

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The Cost of Bottled Water

Ed Begley Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plastic, Bottled Water Industry, Plastic Bottles, Ocean Dead Zones, Water Bottle, Plastic Oceans, Bottled Water, Green News
Ed Begley Jr.

Not only does bottled water take valuable water resources from locations around the country that need them, but it uses huge amounts of fossil fuel to bottle and deliver it, leaving in its wake a literal ocean of unrecycled plastics.

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Eco Etiquette: How Bad For The Environment Is Diet Coke?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living, Water Shortages, Diet Soda, Coca-Cola, Genetically Modified Food, Aspartame, Bpa, Pet, Plastic Bottles, Artificial Sweeteners, Diet Coke, Sodastream, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I live a pretty green lif...

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Guatemala Villagers Use 6,000 Plastic Bottles To Build Schoolhouse

Planet Green | Rachel Cernansky | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd never know it just from looking, but the new bright orange schoolhouse in Granados, Guatemala has walls built with used plastic bottles--and so ...

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Pink Washing the Dangers of Bottled Water

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Kaas Boyle

Perhaps Sparkletts is promoting an alliance with a cancer charity as a PR strategy to distract consumers from Sparkletts' more significant association with their bottles, which are made with a known carcinogen -- BPA.

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Coke Announces Global Rollout of Plant-Based Plastic Bottles

inhabitat.com | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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[Coke] has announced the global rollout of its PlantBottle, a plastic bottle made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and 30% plant based materi...

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The Merits of a Plas-Tax Over a Bo-Tax

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Health Care, Gay Marriage, Botox, Judith Warner, National Organization for Marriage, Bo-Tax, Health Care Bill Cosmetic Surgery, National Organization for Women, Stupak Amendment, Now, Cosmetic Surgery Tax, Cosmetic Surgery, Joy Behar, Bottled Water, Politics News
Annabelle Gurwitch

The Bo-Tax is being touted as a way to help solve the health care budget crisis, presumably because a very small percentage of cosmetic procedures are covered under some insurance plans (unfortunately, not mine).

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Gifts for the Sea

Julie Packard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Funding Non-Profits, Nature, Gifts From the Sea, Julie Packard, Ocean Acidification, Plastic-Pollution, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, Disposable Plastics, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Bags, Carbon Footprint, Connect With Nature, Green Living, Green News
Julie Packard

A half-century ago, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote Gifts from the Sea, bestseller in which she described what we as individuals can take away from our times of quiet reflection along the shore.

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