Bestselling BPA-Free Water Bottles

BPA in plastics may become the lead in gasoline and paint of our times. In fact, US Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat-New York) is proposing a legislative ban on the sale of children’s products and food containers containing bisphenol A (BPA).We’ve been reviewing BPA-free products on …

The Never Ending Plastic Bag Story

Raise your hand if you’re like me and have an overflowing bag of plastic shopping bags? Ok, good. That’s just about everyone. Raise your hand if you try and reuse them for random things like other trash bags and carrying lunch to work? Great! I think that’s …

Primo Corn Plastic Bottled Water

We have all been scared about BPA in plastic water bottles, and we know that petroleum-based plastic water bottles are bad for the environment; however, there are times when even the most eco-minded individual needs to buy bottled water. As a rare consumer of bottled …

Waterless Washing Machine

With drought occurring on all seven continents, many people are wondering if peak water will replace peak oil. We already have low flush toilets and low flow shower heads, soon we may be using virtually waterless washing machines. Researchers at the University of Leeds …

Human Impacts on Ocean: Shocking

Researchers unveiled the first detailed map of human impacts on the world’s oceans last week, and the news is not good. A team of 20 acclaimed marine scientists from around the world collaborated on the project, finding that humans are having a major impact on marine ecosystems, leaving only four percent of the world’s oceans unaffected by human activities.

The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.