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Always Drink Responsibly

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:47:59 +0000

Drink responsibly EVERY DAY! You go to meetings, coffee breaks, PTA functions, and soccer matches, accompanied by the ever-present cup of coffee or bottle of

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Unmelted Bottle Caps

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:36:55 +0000

Remove caps from bottles before recycling. Because they melt at far different temperatures, a cap mixed in with bottles can leave unmelted plastic, making the

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Done Eating? Don’t Wash that Bowl–Eat it

admin — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:51:03 +0000

(CNN Business)–Food packaging is filling up landfills and polluting our oceans, where materials like plastic and polystyrene can take centuries to decompose.But one company might have a

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Teen Deserves His $50,000 Prize

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:50:53 +0000

A teenager from Ireland may have found a way to rescue our oceans from the growing plastic pollution problem. A walk on the beach led Fionn

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Idea for Mother’s Day

admin — Sat, 04 May 2019 17:05:26 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day to your mom or someone who has been a mom to you. Give her a beautiful indoor or outdoor flowering plant she

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Drink Beer & Help the Environment

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:04:46 +0000

Even if you aren’t a Corona or other beer drinker, this is good news. Six-pack rings have always been a hazard to wildlife, killing and

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Our Beautiful, Endangered Oceans

admin — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:25:18 +0000

Yesterday was World Oceans Day, calling attention to our oceans and how to appreciate and take care of them and inviting us to do so

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Those Painful Broken Plastic Toys

admin — Sat, 19 May 2018 16:50:48 +0000

Well, they’re painful when stepped on or go into the landfill. Hasbro has a solution. They’re working with TerraCycle to recycle them into materials for

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Plastic Down Your Drain

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 18:15:16 +0000

Stop washing plastic down the drain. That face or body wash that promises to clean, exfoliate, and scrub away oil often contains little beads—made of plastic!

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Mound of Plastic in the Back Yard

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:47:14 +0000

You probably recycle those plastic bottles and anything else with the recycle symbol on it. I know I do. It’s a little thing we can

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