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82Living Life Without Plastic
Humanity has quickly become addicted to plastic. In just over 70 years, we've gone from a lifestyle with extremely limited uses of plastics to plastic in almost everything. Even your car is about 25 per cent...
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77Are Reusable Bags Bacteria Breeding Grounds?: The Plastic Industry Takes Aim
Are reusable bags really dangerous? Well, probably not - but the plastics industry is fighting to ensure that you reconsider your decision to use cloth or other reusable bags. A recent study done by two independent research labs came to the...
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64Sick Seas: How Alanna Mitchell Changes Our View Of Our Planet
Water makes the world go round, to paraphrase an old song. We land-dwellers rarely think of our home as a water world, but scientists estimate that over 70 per cent of our surface is covered by water. As much...
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77The Plastic Bag Revolution Takes Hold: Reusable Bags Take The Lead
The end of the era of plastic bags is in sight - at least, at my local grocery store! Despite the protests of the plastic bag industry, it turns out that consumers have caught the wave and a sea change is underway in the area around Toronto, Canada....
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64Green Is In
Just to help all those demoralized individuals who wanted to crawl into a hole after my article on The Problem With Plastic Bags, and who also think that they'll have to give up every modern convenience and turn into one of those awful "Crunchy...
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84Capturing Carbon: Is Carbon Sequestration The Way Out Of Climate Change?
If Alanna Mitchell is right, the massive release of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere as a result of human activity is disastrous. Carbon dioxide directly affects the basic chemistry of our oceans: in fact, it impacts the basic chemistry of life on...
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