Groundbreaking Ottawa grocery store to offer one-stop, zero waste shopping
zerowaste grocery shopping is coming to Canada with the opening of Nu Grocery in Ottawa this summer. BYOC (Bring Your Own Container)!UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic #UNEnvironment
The UN has just launched #CleanSeas, a worldwide campaign to address ocean plastic pollution. While plastic pollution is being dealt with globally, what are the ways that you can stop plastic pollution before it starts in your own daily life?Plastic Supermarket
Open your eyes and look around your own supermarket for signs of unsustainability. If you shop where this woman shops, or somewhere similar, be prepared to laugh or cry! It's fucking absurd.16 Really Fucking Easy Ways To Use Less Plastic
Great tips! These are definitely easy steps to dramatically minimize your waste!What is the role of bioplastics in a circular economy?
Bioplastics. Bioplastic. Bioplastic? What do you think you know about bioplastics? Apparently, most people don't know much about this stuff. While it is marketed to be "green" and a solution to the problems of plastic pollution, such claims are misleading...Think you can't live without plastic bags? Consider this: Rwanda did it | Émilie Clavel
theguardian.comWow! Has anyone heard about this before? Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008 and rallied a turn around in industry by offering government incentives to plastic bag manufacturers to convert their factories to recycling facitities. Western industrialized nat...Prince Charles backs bottle deposit schemes to combat ocean plastic pollution
Prince Charles is shining the light of awareness onto the glaring problem of plastic pollution. He is calling for the UK to adopt Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) as a means to manage the environmental crisis that is plastic bottle pollution. Significantly, D...Bulk Barn has embraced the Zero Waste movement
Things just got a little greener, folks! Canadian bulk foods retailer Bulk Barn is finally allowing customers to fill their goods into reusable containers instead of the disposable plastic bags previously required by store policy. This is a long time comi...How I tried, and failed, to live a month without throwaway plastic
One man's attempt to quit plastic 'cold turkey' for 30 days. Anyone up to taking on this challenge?India just banned all forms of disposable plastic in its capital
Dehli's disposable plastic ban went into effect on January 1st, 2017. We posted an article from One Green Planet about the ban on December here in this Imzy Community. Significantly, today is the first time I have found any coverage of the ban by any majo...The State of Bag Bans
TLDR: An article exploring the effects and complications of California's statewide plastic bag ban. On the plus side, there are less plastic bags polluting waterways. On the downside, 40% of consumers forget to bring reusable bags to supermarkets and end ...Tell Amazon it's time to adopt "waste-free" packaging
Petition time! Let's create a wave of consumer demand for the most sustainable packaging available! Let the corporations answer our call with sound solutions!Simply Cups To Recover Recyclable Paper Coffee Cup, reCUP
Meet the the Simply Cup, the UK's only recyclable coffee to-go-cup. It's crazy to me that the coffee to-go cups, which are an omnipresent reality of modern consumerism, are not even recyclable! While they look like paper, they in fact contain plastic. Man...Boomerang Bags aim to reduce plastic bag usage
One community's grass roots initiative to get people using reusable shopping bags. Boomerang Bags are made by volunteers to be distributed by participating businesses. The idea is that the bags circulate, making them easily accessible. If you forget to br...Shrimp shopping bags could prevent plastics pollution, suggests research
Egypt is tackling its waste problem by replacing disposable plastic with compostable bags and packaging made from discarded shrimp shells. The cool thing is that shrimp shells themselves constitute a waste management issue for Egypt.Conscious Consumerism & Zero Waste: When organic consumerism comes plastic-wrapped. - Nourishing Path
Have you ever noticed how both organic and conventional products are packaged unsustainably and frequently in plastic? Yeah, me too! It seems that when it comes to convenience, both organic and conventional goods come plastic wrapped! Going organic alone ...The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See it to Believe it
robgreenfield.tvHave you ever heard of Rob Greenfield? If you haven't yet, I strongly recommend that you learn about this extraordinary person and his inspired life philosophy, which encompasses and extends beyond zero waste/minimalism. I have been looking to share infor...Are crickets the new protein of the future? | Toronto Star
Crickets, anyone? Environmentally friendly and - while they do not equal post-food - they are certainly a new food group for many of us! Who knows? Maybe there will be a cricket based food-replacement-beverage in our nutritional futures.Swedish supermarkets replace sticky labels with laser marking
Increasing consumer demand for sustainable packaging in supermarkets is giving businesses the incentive to invest in sustainability. Case in point: a Dutch produce supplier and a Swedish supermarket chain are working to ditch produce stickers as a measure...It Works
More options for a zero waste period.Procter & Gamble's Environmental New Year's Resolution - Send Zero Manufacturing Waste to Landfill From All Production Sites by 2020
yahoo.comProcter & Gamble is working to clean up its manufacutring game- improving recycling and diverting all waste from landfills by 2020. That's big news! Now, if only they would stop producing chemical laden products sold in cheap plastic packaging. A girl can...Can Cities Find A Way To Stop Using Disposable Coffee Cups?
fastcoexist.comHere's a great follow up to yesterday's BBC post on non-recyclable single-use coffee cups. Programs that introduce reuseable coffee cups to networks of regional cafés. You pay a deposit on a cup, take it with you and then drop it off at another participat...The Best Menstrual Cup
This is the best overview of menstrual cups I have ever seen and a great follow up to the last post about the environmental impact of disposable tampons and pads. If you have been considering purchasing a menstrual cup and aren't sure which brand, size, m...What's the environmental impact of my period?
Have you ever considered the environmental impact of your period? If you are a user of disposable tampons and pads, it might be worth looking into for the health of the environment as well as the health of your body. Interesting article.




