Facts about Bottled Water

I stumbled across this great diagram about bottled water. It is a huge part of the plastic problem.

More Water Fountains

We need more water fountains like this one. Thanks Susan Dominus from the NYT.

Long time no blog, I know. Just in the supermarket buying some things. While I know it is nearly impossible to avoid things plastic, here are some things to look out for;

Juices. Man are they all in plastic bottle? Well, no not all. There are many that come in glass.

But what jolted me back into this blog was the tea bags. No, not the tea baggers, but the tea bags sold by companies like Celestial Seasonings. They wrap there box in plastic. Talk about redundancy. Others however, like Bigelow use only a non-plastic box.

So keep an eye out in the supermarket for the big, (juice) and small (tea).

No Plastic wrap

Plastic Wrap

A study of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is underway

Scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific.

Australia Town-Good on ya!

Check this out fellow plastic watchers. Now this is taking the initiative.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_bottled_water_ban

Bottled Water Disaster

My brother passed this along. The numbers are scary, but the pictures are even scarier. 

Recycled Air

I found out via David Pogue from one of his "Tweets" on Twitter that Delta Airlines had a big recycling program. Here's an article from Delta's Blog that talks about it. Mind you, it's a bit biased being that it's THEM talking about THEIR recycling program (and from 2008 no less), but it sounds good. Now if only we could get independent proof.