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The Coronavirus and Single-Use Plastic Pollution: An Unlikely, but Harmful Symbiosis
As illustrated in past blogs, the impact of single-use plastic is both widespread and potentially devastating to living organisms. In many cases, this issue, in principle, parallels the ongoing coronavirus scare, which, if left unchecked, could soon alter parts of...
Five Single-Use Plastics You Can Quit Today
The reduction of single-use plastic has become a crucial tactic in the fight against widespread plastic pollution, and while it must remain in tandem with other efforts to yield significant change, it is comparatively one of the easier steps that can be taken towards...
Debunking Common Myths Surrounding Plastic Pollution (Pt. 2)
Over the last few decades, plastic pollution has become one of the most glaring issues threatening the environment. This problem, layered and widespread as it is, has only been exacerbated by a variety of myths and misconceptions surrounding the act of polluting, the...
Debunking Common Myths Surrounding Plastic Pollution (Pt. 1)
Over the last few decades, plastic pollution has become one of the most glaring issues threatening the environment. This problem, layered and widespread as it is, has only been exacerbated by a variety of myths and misconceptions surrounding the act of polluting, the...
Three Simple Ways You Can Help the Environment
A lone individual may be inspired to do his or her part in contributing to protecting and/or nourishing the Earth. They would discover that instant methods for helping the environment can ultimately be boiled down to the three Rs of the Environment taught in schools...
Though Well-Intentioned, Ocean Clean-Ups are not the Solution
You see them periodically throughout the year, usually championed by any number of environmental groups focused on bettering the planet for future generations -- but, while clearly well-intentioned and focused in the right direction -- ocean clean-ups are,...
How Your Restaurant Can Cut Back on Single-Use Plastics
Human beings are habitual creatures by nature; we tend to lean on what we know, and we can be difficult to sway in new, potentially uncomfortable directions -- especially when it comes to eating and the culinary arts. That said, while there are many restaurants that...
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