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Coke’s Plant-Based Bottles Won’t Fix Bad Consumer Habits

In another minor effort to appease critics of wasteful, petroleum-based plastic bottles, Coca-Cola Co. has introduced a new packaging alternative made from 30% sugar cane-based materials. The other 70% is made from – you guessed it – petroleum-derived polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Coca-Cola says it plans to shift to this packaging for all beverages it produces, and [...]

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Mountain Dew Christmas Tree Made from Cans

From a distance, when it’s all lit up, you can’t even tell that this Christmas tree is anything other than a conventional fir strung with lights and ornaments. But take a closer look and the tree reveals itself to be a work of art – made from aluminum cans.
The tree might be eco-friendly, but the [...]

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World’s Stupidest, Most Wasteful Consumer Products

As if plastic banana guards, leaf blowers and mechanized egg crackers weren’t enough, the brilliant inventors of the world just keep on creating unbelievably stupid, wasteful products for the masses to enjoy. The Huffington Post is pretty great at sniffing them out – the Top 10 Most Useless Items of Crapola, the 9 Stupidest Products [...]

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Shocking Photos: Bird Bodies Full of Plastic

Lighters, bottle caps, plastic bags and milk jugs. Fishing net, fishing line, zip ties, remnants of food containers. All of this and more floats in a massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean – and in the stomachs of the birds who search for food amid the debris.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice [...]

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Researchers Find Even More Plastic than Expected

Scientists with ‘Project Kaisei’, who spent three weeks gathering plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, returned to the Bay Area this week with a rather horrifying sample of the trash that can be found floating in the ocean.
Chunks of styrofoam, cracked patio chairs, bleach bottles, tangled nets and old toys were among the [...]

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Swagtastic BlogHer Conference Disappoints Green Bloggers

Americans are addicted to free stuff. That’s a given. Wherever there is free swag handed out, there will be throngs of eager people mindlessly pushing each other and holding out their greedy little paws, regardless of whether they really even want the product itself. Sometimes, getting swag is a great chance to try out something [...]

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