by Environmental News | Jun 22, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Aisling Maria Cronin / Source: One Green Planet Around the world, 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year. Of this figure, only an estimated 12 to 15 percent is recycled, which stands in stark contrast to the 88 percent recycling rate for...
by Environmental News | Jun 16, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Aisling Maria Cronin / Source: One Green Planet Plastic is one of the most common materials in the world. It can be found literally everywhere, from the grocery stores we frequent every day to the most remote oceanic environments. An estimated 8.8...
by Environmental News | May 28, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Michelle Kelly / Source: One Green Planet The first plastic sandwich bags were introduced in 1957. Nine years later, plastic produce bags were rolled out in grocery stores. It took three decades before the recycling of plastic bags began in 1990, but...
by Environmental News | May 24, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Nick Visser / Source: The Huffington Post A dead sea turtle draped in plastic trash. Every year, billions of pounds of plastic waste ― grocery bags, drinking straws, even cigarette butts ― pour into our oceans. Used by humanity for a few minutes at...
by Environmental News | May 2, 2017 | Live Toxic Free
Source: Ecofriend The mobile world has developed many apps to spy and monitor others. You might have used some phone tracker app to monitor call history; SMS’s or even the online browsing activity. But do you know that there are mobile phone apps to monitor the...
