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• Retired engineer relives his early days by making kites from plastic bags

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  Until now, I could not remember any exceptions to the cliche that says childhood never returns. However, a recent instance, where a retired construction engineer Han Fushan from Beijing relived those fading memories, made me do a double take on it. Well, he can peep into his childhood in a green way by making kites ...
  17 hours ago

• Two Plastic Bags and a Fishball Stick

  
  AsiaIsGreen — Authority: 486
  This article is contributed by Trina Tan. Ever had the experience of buying a piece of bread or bun from a small bakery store and had to throw away the plastic bag immediately after eating it? In Singapore, buying and eating takeaway snack food is very popular. Over the past few years, we have observed the boom of ...
  1 day ago

• Is This a Viral PSA Announcement And Nobody Told Me?

  
  Homemade Hilarity — Authority: 416
  Well, the dude seems fine, apart from being indoctrinated into the Eagles. The girlette , on the other hand, seems to have suffered a stroke. A severe, severe stroke. A stroke only Picasso could love.
  2 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• Aplastic Bag Discusses Guidelines On Hosting a Successful Thanksgiving Dinner

  
  INTACTINFOs BLOG — Authority: 137
  Major plastic bag distributor based in California offers promotions on holiday plastic bags as well as tips on giving a good Thanksgiving holiday dinner party. Aplastic bag carries a wide line of standard and recyclable plastic bags for every... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  2 days ago

• Aplastic Bag Discusses Guidelines On Hosting a Successful Thanksgiving Dinner

  
  Businessmusings — Authority: 141
  Major plastic bag distributor based in California offers promotions on holiday plastic bags as well as tips on giving a good Thanksgiving holiday dinner party. Aplastic bag carries a wide line of standard and recyclable plastic bags for every occasion, and with the holiday season upon us, businesses and end users ...
  2 days ago

• Spanish News-Plastic Bags

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 148
  The Spanish economy is one of the last in Europe to tackle the “single use”plastic bag problem.It is estimated that the average Spaniard uses almost 300 plastic bags a year.This amounts to a whopping 10 billion a year.These bags will not decompose ,at least they might in hundreds of years and in the meantime they ...
  3 days ago

• Eco Friendly Shopping Bags….Is It Possible?

  
  Green Home Hints and Tips - Household Green Cleaning Eco Friendly Products, Green products, Energy Saving Tips, Water Efficiency — Authority: 112
  I stumbled across this video on youtube when I was trying to figure out how many shopping bags are produced each year, and consequently how much plastic waste that takes a long time to break down is produced.  The video is made by www.alternativeconsumer.com.  Not only does this video look at the environmental ...
  3 days ago

• DFTB Reminds Us: Dont Forget the Bag!

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Image via Orianna Helms . You head off to the local market with your grocery list in hand...and then you get there and realize you forgot your bags reusable bags ! Its happened to all of us and darn, isnt it so frustrating? Not to mention that so many stores give us money back now if we bring our reusable bags . It ...
  3 days ago

• Welsh Customers Charged for Plastic Bags

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 140
  One of the more devastating forms of rubbish is plastic bags.  Many bags that people get in supermarkets and department stores are not recyclable, which means they end up in landfills, oceans, and streets in the form of litter.  Some countries around the world have used a variety of innovative methods to lessen the ...
  3 days ago

• Shoppers at newly-opened KL Carrefour Market must bring own bags

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Jayagandi Jayaraj, The Star 6 Nov 09;GOING green all the way, Carrefour Market at the Sphere in Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur has implemented its no-plastic-bag policy starting last week.Shoppers are encouraged to bring their own bags, or buy recyclable bags sold at the market.The attractive bags cost between RM4 and ...
  4 days ago

• Photo: Thursday, in the Alley

  
  City Desk — Authority: 702
  1400 Block of 7th Street NW (rear) *Hat tip: Karen Szulgit
  4 days ago

• Christmas Pudding Bin Bags

  
  le craic — Authority: 118
  I may have said this before but “I think I’ve seen it all now”. Available from Suck UK . Note: If you buy these, please have someone give you a good kick up the arse.
  4 days ago

• Plastic bag ban hailed a success by SA Government

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  Six months into South Australia’s ban on plastic bags, the state government has labelled it a remarkable success. An estimated 200 million checkout style bags have so far been stopped from entering our landfill and shoppers have been quick to embrace the changes for the sake of the environment, they advised.Premier ...
  5 days ago

• Single-use bags will get no-use

  
  Green Living — Authority: 118
  San Jose is about to jump on board with the ban of the plastic single-use bag. But the city goes a step further in trying to ban the paper bag too. San Fransisco has put a similar ban but limiting it to petroleum-based plastic checkout bags – allowing biodegradable plastic and recyclable paper under the legislation. ...
  5 days ago

• Abu Dhabi finalizes draft proposal to ban use of plastic bags

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 535
  The Centre of Waste Management in Abu Dhabi announced it has completed a draft resolution to ban the use of plastic bags in shopping malls throughout the emirate, reported Khaleej Times on Wednesday. The proposal is awaiting approval from the Executive Council in Abu Dhabi. “If passed, the commercial shops will ...
  5 days ago

• Plastic bags to be banned as Myanmar government acts on pollution

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Ye Lwin, Myanmar Times 2 Nov 09;THE cheapest and most common type of plastic bags will be banned in Yangon Division from December 1 for environmental reasons, officials announced last month.Businesses will be banned from manufacturing, importing, trading or distributing high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic bags ...
  6 days ago

• Dianna Cohen: Getting the Message from Her Own Art

  
  Fake Plastic Fish — Authority: 575
  Dianna Cohen is a painter, but she doesn’t use a paint brush. Trained at UCLA, she gave up the brush for materials most people consider trash: bags, boxes, little pieces of plastic. This year, she helped to found the Plastic Pollution Coalition . After twenty years, she finally started to get the messages from ...
  6 days ago

• Laptop Bento Lunch Box for Eco Trends Tuesday

  
  Life within me — Authority: 136
  When it comes to preparing meals for your children and even yourself, you should be thinking of the size of portions you are using. Obentec’s mission is to create fun, practical food containers and user guides that promote better nutrition and waste reduction. The system eliminates the need for plastic bags, ...
  6 days ago

• Shipwreck - an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 428
  Faux Cap, Madagascar – Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF.The Turkish vessel Gulser Ana grounded near Faux Cap in the [...]
  1 week ago

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