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MIDWAY – A Film By Chris Jordan

The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk ...[READ MORE]

10 Reasons To Drink Tap Water – Tapit

10 Reasons To Drink Tap Water - Tapit There are many reasons to skip bottled water and head straight to the tap. We have summed what we thought were the top 10 in one simple infographic. If this doesn't convince you, maybe nothing will. Be sure to pass this along to those who might not be quite convinced that tap water is the way to. Scroll to the bottom for a link to the full size infographic as a downloadable PDF. TapIt water bottle refilling network was founded in 2008 to give New Yorkers ...[READ MORE]

Los Angeles Becomes Largest U.S. City to Ban Plastic Bags

Los Angeles Becomes Largest U.S. City to Ban Plastic Bags In a historic vote Wednesday, the L.A. City Council voted overwhelmingly to enact a ban on plastic bags -- becoming the largest city in the United States to push towards more eco-friendly alternatives. Under the measure, passed by a 13 to 1 vote, stores throughout L.A. will be required to phase out the bags by the end of the year, significantly reducing the amount of landfill fodder and environmental pollutants produced annually. Once in ...[READ MORE]

Drinking Water: Bottled or Tap?

By Catherine Clarke Fox If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes hauling a case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right? But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order ...[READ MORE]

Bottled Water Sales are Down!

Bottled Water Sales are Dropping! This is great news! More consumers are saving every penny, and choosing to drink tap water instead of expensive, wasteful, bottled water. What does this mean? We are winning the fight against bottled water! We have a long way to go, but this is definitely a great start! Food and Water Watch is reporting a 12.6 percent drop in sales! Nestle is working harder to gain back consumer confidence. Watch out for more deceitful advertising. Hanging on for Pure Life Why ...[READ MORE]

Please… Rethink Plastic

As you all know, I am an avid supporter of Plastic Pollution Coalition. I do my part by buying as little plastic as possible, I do not drink bottled water, and all the plastic that we do use in our home, gets recycled (at least I pray it is, when the city picks up our recycling bins), I use re-usable shopping bags when I go shopping and I donate monthy to this organization. Its not a lot, but if everybody did this we would have alot less trash in our oceans.  Today Plastic Pollution ...[READ MORE]

Keep Coca-Cola's Plastic OUT Of the Grand Canyon

There were meaningful plans brewing for America’s most iconic national park before Coca-Cola stepped in to protect its own interests. The National Parks Service was weeks away from finalizing plans that would have eliminated the sale of plastic water bottles in the Grand Canyon when Coca-Cola, who sells water under the Dasani name, stepped in and squelched the plans. Join us in telling the National Park Service that we won’t stand for big corporations calling the shots in our nation’s parks, ...[READ MORE]

Crackdown in California Over Bottled Water Greenwashing – Care2.com

by Jennifer Mueller/Care2.com Two bottled water companies and a plastic bottle manufacturer are misleading  California consumers by claiming their bottles are biodegradable, charged  California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris in a lawsuit last week.  The  state is suing to immediately remove thousands of bottles of Balance and  Aquamantra water made by ENSO plastics from store shelves under California’s new  environmental marketing law. Greenwashing by Bottled Water Companies Accusations  of ...[READ MORE]

California Attorney General Sues Companies Over False Biodegradable Claims

LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general's office on Wednesday sued three companies over allegations they misled consumers by marketing plastic water bottles as biodegradable. The lawsuit – said to be the first government action to enforce the state's environmental marketing law – accuses ENSO Plastics of Mesa, Ariz., of falsely claiming their bottles would biodegrade in less than five years, leaving behind no harmful materials. It is illegal in California to label a plastic food or drink ...[READ MORE]

Plastic Pollution – Can we make a difference?

Plastic is forever Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small amount that has been incinerated and has become toxic particulate matter. Plastic poisons our food chain In the environment, plastic breaks down into small particles that attract toxic chemicals. These particles are ingested by wildlife on land and ...[READ MORE]