Plastic a Toxic Love Story & UpCycling Plastic

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Plastic – love it or hate it, we use it – lots of it. It is a substance that opened new worlds of innovation and may have saved elephants from extinction, but we have become addicted to our celluloid, polymers, acrylic, etc.

Plastic Bottles Turned into Useful Eco-Style

This awesome bag, which I will be very hard pressed to give up, is made from material that is made from recycled plastic bottles.

Retreads as Eco-Fashion Accessory

I got this English Retreads bag from one of my favorite green cyber-shopping spots, BuyGreen.com. I love BuyGreen.com because they do a fairly thorough evaluation of their products, reviewing and rating all aspects of a product’s sustainability.  This bag got 49 on its sustainability score (see the details of how this bag was rated). This [...]

Worm Poo Entrepreneur on with the Green Divas

Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, Inc. a highly creative and successful super-sustainable company that was born of worm poo and plastic soda bottles. This Hungarian-born, Princeton dropout has been wildly successful as his original organic fertilizer idea has blossomed into a new business category that he calls Sponsored Waste. Tom has teamed up with various [...]

Eco-Bag Lady Update

Back to my office, where so much of my daily life seems to take place these days. This great bag is just one of the cool green products I’ve gotten to review that has been useful in making my work routine more interesting. I’ve been using The Better Bag as my brief case since I [...]