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Green Your Sunscreen With KINeSYS
Posted by: | CommentsAre you and your family enjoying the warm summer months? If you are then you know the importance of sunscreen for both adults and children. It’s really hard to find a sunscreen that matches your eco-friendly lifestyle, but there is a great option available. Canadian company KINeSYS has an extensive line of sunscreens that are “EcoLogo certified, clean, renewable electricity generated by Wind Power.”
In 2008 KINeSYS “made the commitment to purchase clean, carbon-free electricity generated by Alberta Wind Power to offset energy used in their manufacturing process, warehouse and office. This sustainable power is certified by EcoLogo, North America’s oldest environmental standard.” They feel that by offsetting their usage they are helping combat climate change. Everyone remembers the three R’s from elementary school reduce, reuse, and recycle. These principles are the backbone of trying to be environmentally friendly, and the foundation for KINeSYS’ business model. Their “bottles are 100% recyclable High Density Polyethylene (Bisphenol-A-free). They use cardboard that is a minimum of 40% post-consumer recycled board. The company does not use ingredients that accumulate in the body or the environment and print using vegetable-based inks when available. Beyond that they source and manufacture locally as much as possible to reduce fuel use. Conventional self-powered spray cans may not be easily recyclable due to internal bladders and the pressured container can also present special challenges when traveling by air. KINeSYS products have always used manual, finger-powered pumps. These pharmaceutical-grade sprayers disperse an ultrafine mist without the waste of powered sprays and the negatives associated with continuous style sprayers.”
It is not just the environment this company keeps in mind when manufacturing their products, but also animal welfare. They don’t test on animals and don’t use any ingredients derived from animals. “KINeSYS is a member of the Caring Consumer Program created by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to help eliminate animal abuse and cruelty. KINeSYS has joined over 600 other certified companies who have pledged to end unnecessary animal testing.”
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Posted by: | CommentsAn eco-friendly fast and easy tip can come from anywhere and I have two that I want to share with you. One comes courtesy of The Tyra Banks Show, the other from the third hour of The Today Show. Now, I know not everyone PRVed the episodes so let me share what I learned.
Model, producer, reality and talk show host Tyra Branks featured a segment on her daily talk show about easy solutions to everyday problems. Have you ever had your deodorant leave white stains on your cloths? Well there is an eco friendly solution to the problem – used dryer sheets. Yes, used dryer sheets. Collect your used dryer sheets after they’ve been used and put them aside for safekeeping. Then all you need to do is vigorously wipe at the stain with the used dryer sheet, and it will diminish. For a quick fix keep a few in your purse or gym bag so you are never caught out in public with an unsightly stain. The best part about this tip is that you are repurposing a dryer sheet that has already gone in with your laundry; reusing is an eco-friendly concept.
Next we have NBC’s Today Show. On the third hour, Honda Kotb and guest co-host Donny Deutsch had a segment about cleaning tips. They gave an eco-friendly remedy for how to get a mud stain out of a piece of clothing for anyone with children. All you do is remove the excess mud by scraping it off, then rub it with half of a raw potato until it has diminished and then launder. Now this is an eco-friendly tip as you can use a potato that is slightly past its prime yet still has a purpose and can then be composted – with using any harmful chemicals in the process.
Tags: composting, Donny Deutsch, Eco Friendly, eco-friendly solution, eco-friendly tips, green tips, planet forward, recycle, reduce, repurpose, repurpose dryer sheets, reuse, Sustainable Living, sustainable practices, sustainable solutions, The Tyra Banks Show, Today Show, Tyra Banks10 Disturbing Facts On How Much We Waste
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I’m reminded of just how wasteful we are as I’m at a local mall noticing what’s in the full garbage bin. Lots of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard – all recyclable, but carelessly tossed and headed to the landfill. People discard things in the garbage without any consideration or respect for the environment. How wasteful are we? Let me count the ways with 10 alarming facts about how we impact waste:
- Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. They take 400 to 1000 years to degrade.
- About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet the recycling rate is just 33%.
- $1 out of every $10 spent on food goes into packaging and in the US, over 400 billion plastic bags are tossed into the garbage. Plastic bags can take 1000 years to degrade.
- The average student lunch accounts for 67 pounds of packaging and waste per year (that’s 4.6 trillion pounds in the US alone)
- 5 billion drink boxes are thrown away each year in North America
- 2/3 of our household waste can be composted
- 8 out of 10 water bottles end up in a landfill
- The state of Texas could be shrink-wrapped with the amount of plastic film that Americans throw out
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