'PET Bottle Purses' by Zitta Schnitt Conceived by Vienna-based designer Zitta Schnitt, the 'PET Bottle Purse' consists of two pieces of PET bottles ...
What do mushrooms, tires and soda bottles have in common? They are all being used, recycled or even upcycled through innovative programs that prevent waste from entering the environment.
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...
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...
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Disposable plastic water bottles soon won't be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Mon...
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.
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.
Here's a raised glass of water to SteriPEN and the amazing technology that keeps travelers safe no matter where they are.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In my quest to consume less plastic and protect my children, I had my water tested by several companies.
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
[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...
