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Kitchen Plastic: Easy Greening | Healthy and Green Living

Is it safe to use plastic in the kitchen for food storage or cooking? Find out which plastics to avoid for use with food and read our 12 tips for safely using plastic in the kitchen.

Alternative uses for plastic bags - Green Daily

Too many plastic bags at your house? Or are you just trying to use up a multi-year stash? If you don't want to just recycle them all, here is a huge list of alternatives from the folks over at Real Simple. See if any of them will work for you.

Letter: In defense of plastic bags

In a letter to the editor of The Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts, Shari Jackson, director of Progressive Bag Affiliate for the American Chemistry Council, notes that there is much ingenuity and innovation in the development of plastic bags. For instance, she writes, compared with paper bags, lightweight grocery bags require 70% less energy to make, produce 50% less greenhouse gases and create five times less waste.

Going green is in the bag

So before you brew that pot of shade-grown Colombia Supreme from Raleigh's eco-friendly coffee roaster, Larry's Beans, consider the package containing all that shade-grown, Free Trade java goodness. It looks like a plastic bag, feels like a plastic bag and even smells like a plastic bag.

Old pantyhose, bags get new life as handmade rugs

For many people, their idea of recycling plastic grocery bags is probably using them as trash bags. If they reuse old pantyhose, it's to hold moth balls. And they reuse old tube socks as dust rags.

Local program keeps millions of plastic bags out of the dump

It's in the Bag creates jobs for adults with disabilities, while recycling millions of pounds of plastic. "This is what you get when you work at Merrick," a Merrick client named Terry said while showing off his biceps.

Department launches plastic-free campaign - Fiji Times Online

IN an effort to minimize the use of plastic bags and create awareness on its harmful effects on health and the environment, the Department of Environment has embarked on a festive season campaign.

Perf Go Green Expands Biodegradable Bag Line

The average garbage bag preserves last night's meatloaf-and anything else sealed within its plastic lining-for 100 years. Pitching a more eco-friendly option to consumers, Perf Go Green launched biodegradable plastic bags back in March. Now the company plans to expand its line starting next year.

Giving new life to old plastic grocery bags

Izetta Gorman recycles thousands of plastic bags into beautiful floormats. Each floor mat is unique. The colour and pattern in each one depends on the colours in every bag.
At first glance they look very much like old-fashioned cotton braided area rugs.

520 NM BAGS

The 520-nm Reusable Produce and Bulk Item Bags are designed with you and the environment in mind. Use them instead of the flimsy plastic bags you find in the produce and bulk section of your grocery store or take them with you to your local farmers' market to load up on fresh fruits and vegetables.

VietNamNet - VN company introduces dissolving bags

A Vietnamese company has released its first batch of self-dissolving plastic bags - a product that promises to solve a big environmental problem.

OpEdNews » PLASTIC BAGS ARE DANGEROUS

Burning plastic bags emits dangerous chemicals. Don't burn plastic bags! They are very toxic. When my neighbor burns her leaves, she burns them plastic bags and all. I wondered what chemicals were coming from burning the plastic bags, so I looked it up. I found that burning polyethylene emits fumes that include compounds such as methane, ethane, aldehydes, ketones and acrolein, plus additional compounds. I also found that burning Styrofoam containers emits styrene, benzene, benzaldehyde, formaldehyde, plus various poly-aromatic hydrocarbons.

What to do with old plastic baggies

What to do with old plastic baggies

by Jennifer on September 11th, 2008

I don't buy plastic bags. To me they're a total waste of energy and plastic, when frankly, containers work just as well, but can be reused for years.

You do hear stories of thrifty folks using their baggies for years and years, but seriously, some get tossed, and they do develop holes. A better plan is to own a decent amount of containers with lids. That said, if you currently haven't made that leap, and you do own some plastic bags, do try to wash and reuse them. If you feel odd about washing and reusing them for food items, there's still much you can do with them, like%u2026

Plastics By The Numbers by Heather Ramsey

It seems that nearly everything these days has plastic components: cleaning products and drinks come in plastic bottles, toys are either made from it or come packaged in it, and we store our food with plastic wrap and Tupperware. And, though we tend to take it for granted that these items are safe, we have recently been inundated with stories of dangerous chemical contaminants, in products from from baby bottles to toys.

Yellows and Blues | Share - Learn - Green

An adventurer is collecting thousands of recycled 2-liter plastic soda bottles to make a boat and sail it from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas.

Do Bioplastics Deserve a Seat at Your Table?

Unlike typical plastics made from crude oil, "bioplastics" are often made from plant matter such as corn starch, potato starch, cane sugar, and soy protein. A potentially renewable alternative to petroleum-based plastics would have the long-term benefits of reducing global warming pollution and our dependence on fossil fuels, but do bioplastics fit the bill?

Distinctly Green: Produce finally gets its own reusable bags : Business : Redding Record Searchlight

Checkers at supermarkets are hesitating to ask the question "paper or plastic" with more consumers bringing reusable tote bags.

What Plastics Do to Your Body | Healthy and Green Living

Chemicals in plastics have been shown to cause cancer, infertility, obesity and early onset of puberty, and plastic is everywhere in your kitchen.

News about plastic bags around the world 

What are countries doing about plastic bags?

All plastic bags banned in Delhi-Delhi-Cities-The Times of India

If you are still carrying groceries or vegetables from the market in plastic bags or using them to dispose of your garbage, you run the risk of a jail term or fine, or both. An indulgent official machinery may give you time to find alternatives but the ban on the bag was put in place last Saturday and it covers all shopping areas and big eating joints, hotels and hospitals.

How To RE-FASHION Plastic Bags Into Dresses

This past weekend, EM & Co., a Los Angeles boutique, featured its first art exhibit for 2009, ?RE-FASHION: Plastic Bag.? The exhibit featured wearable, one-of-a-kind dresses made from plastic bags and other recyclable materials, designed by local L.A. artists.

Plastic banned, street kids hit bull’s eye with jute bags - Express India

New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull's eye.

Hawaii considers plastic shopping bag ban

The Hawaii Legislature is considering banning the distribution of plastic shopping bags by retail stores and supermarkets.
Senate Bill 584 will be heard at the state Capitol Thursday afternoon.
?Plastic shopping bags require fossil fuel to manufacture, contribute to litter, crowd landfills with nonbiodegradable waste, and are dangerous to wildlife,? the measure reads.

Do New Yorkers Use Nearly 3 Billion Plastic Bags Per Year?

It's been months since we last heard about Bloomberg's plastic bag tax plan, which was officially proposed last week?and since November the fee has gone down one cent (from 6 to 5 pennies). As the mayor seeks approval from Albany, CityRoom takes a closer look at some questionable figures estimating just how many plastic bags we use in the city.

Plastic Bag drop-off location

Plastic bags are made out of "film", or thin flexible
sheets of plastic. Plastic film is typically defined as
any plastic less than 10 mm thick. The majority of
plastic films are made from polyethylene resin and are
readily recyclable if the material is cl

Family wants small 'plastic' footprint

Jesse Garcia says his family was always pretty conscientious about caring for the planet.
They recycled, always putting out the city's blue garbage container.
But during a vacation to southern California in the summer of 2007, Garcia, 38, said they became a bit more enthusiastic about wanting to do a better job.

Drycleaners Phase Out Plastic and Improve Profits With The Green Garmento Reusable Drycleaning Bag

Created to eliminate single-use plastic
from drycleaning in the same way smaller totes do for groceries, The Green Garmento is having a second surprisingly positive impact: improving drycleaners' revenue. As a
result, just six months from its introduct

Bill would charge nickle for shopping bags -- Courant.com

Some Connecticut lawmakers are hoping to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags by imposing a new nickel fee for every plastic or paper bag they receive at retail stores.

Viet Nam, Indonesia and Taiwan accused of dumping plastic bags by USA

Viet Nam Indonesia and Taiwan have been accused of dumping plastic bags by two American companies according to Viet Nam's Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Plastic Bags: Ban and Tax? : TreeHugger

Photo via Flickr: by Zainub San Francisco is the first U.S. city set to ban plastic bags and Los Angeles City Council followed suit, approving a ban, effective July 2010. Last week, they also tacked on a 25-cent fee

Even ragpickers don’t pick plastic bags: study

Three years after plastic carry bags below 50 microns were banned in the state, thin plastic thailis or polythene bags continue to be a nuisance in Mumbai with even the ragpickers unwilling to pick them for recycling.

Eco-friendly plastic bags launched

WASTE Busters, pioneers in recycling of solid waste in Pakistan, have launched biodegradable plastic bags in the provincial capital.

Shoppers in Hong Kong face plastic-bag tax to cut waste mountain - Monsters and Critics

Hong Kong - Shoppers in Hong Kong were Monday preparing for
a plastic bag tax aimed at cutting the city s daily mountain of waste.