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Green Tip Of The Week – Pack Waste-Free Lunches
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This green tip of the week simply involves packing a waste-free lunch for your kids or for your day at work. Did you know that the average American school-age child throws away 67 pounds of packaging a year? This includes plastic water bottles, sandwich baggies, and juice boxes. With the population of kids in the US alone accounting for over 70 million, that’s over 4.6 TRILLION pounds of packaging.
Here’s some other lunch waste facts courtesy of globalstewards.org:
Plastic Bottles: U.S. citizens discard 2.5 million plastic bottles EVERY HOUR
Aluminum Foil: More than 20 million Hershey’s kisses are wrapped with 133 square miles of foil every day
Aluminum and Tin Cans: In the time it takes you to read this sentence, more than 50,000 12-oz. aluminum cans were made
Juice Boxes: Most inorganic trash retains its weight, volume, and form for at least four decades
Paper Bags and Napkins: It is estimated that 17 trees are cut down for every ton of non-recycled paper
Styrofoam: U.S. citizens throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups EVERY YEAR
It’s time to cut down on lunchtime environmental impact and pack waste-free lunches. Here’s the uncomplicated part, it’s as easy as these 5 steps:
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Move over Lavalife, eharmony and match.com because there’s a new kid on the block and www.ecodaters.com aims to take eco friendly living to a whole new dimension. A dimension where green-loving singles could find other like-minded souls and live happily ever after. A great concept but let’s not rush to judgment quite yet. Read More→
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Posted by: | CommentsIs A Bag-Fee Policy A Step Towards Eco Friendly Shopping?
On June 1st, 2009, the bag-fee policy takes effect in Toronto and although some may say it’s a step in the right eco friendly shopping direction, I’m not so sure. The facts about the bag-fee policy are:
- Retailers must charge a minimum of 5 cents for each plastic shopping bag requested by a shopper
- If plastic shopping bags are not available, retailers must provide a free recyclable alternative (such as a paper bag or cardboard box)
- The bag charge detailing the number of bags purchased and the total amount charged must be recorded on the receipt
- Retailers must accept the use of ANY reusable container brought in my a customer (whether it be a bag, bin, box, carrier)
- Retailers are entitled to keep the money from the plastic bag charges
- The policy also bans non-compliant bags (bags that cannot be recycled – no plastic bags with string handles or metal fittings)
- The policy also bans biodegradable plastic bags as they are not accepted by the recyclers the city deals with

