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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint With Reusable Bags

Reducing your carbon footprint is an eco-friendly lifestyle choice that may seem daunting, but is completely attainable. To best understand how to reduce your carbon footprint you need to understand what it is exactly. The carbon reference relates to carbon emissions that result from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and gas. These fuels are used to power cars, create electricity, heat homes, manufacture goods, and a whole slew of other things. The footprint is a measure of use. So every time you drive your gas-powered car or carry groceries home in petroleum-based plastic bags you increase your carbon footprint.

Seattle Bans Plastic Bags and Supports Reusable Bags

On December 19, 2011 the Seattle City Council passed a ban on plastic bags, and a short time later the mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, signed this bill into law. Banning plastic bags is quickly gaining momentum and similar bans have been put into place in San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR, and Brownsville, TX.

Health worries with BPA that won’t go away

Concerns over the impact on health of BPA – a chemical compound widely used in everyday plastic items – spiked again this week. The release of a study into BPA contamination, from the eating of cans of soup, showed that levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) rose tenfold in volunteers consuming such soups regularly.

Take the trash out of the landfill – go reusable

It’s becoming increasingly clear that landfill is no solution to the global garbage problem. It’s just a convenient – and all-too-temporary. What was convenient for the waste-dumper has turned out to be far from convenient for the rest of us; or for the overstressed environment. And while today’s landfill sites are a far cry from the giant holes in the ground common until the 1970s – which leaked like sieves into the local water supply – today’s tighter controls and regulations only delay, rather than eliminate, the environmental problems of landfill. Even a small change like going with reusable shopping bags is a move in the right direction.

Jute Reusable Grocery Bags– green fiber with the golden future?

It’s called ‘the golden fiber’, and its long glistening threads are often touted as one the most environmentally-friendly of fabrics. But whether jute is found easing your load when shopping, woven into sustainable clothing – or even spun into a fine faux silk – how do those claims of being the green material of choice stack up? What lies behind the push to make jute the eco-fabric of our time?

Buying Reusable Bags Direct From A Manufacturer

Disintermediation – an ugly sounding word, if ever there was one. But that verbal mouthful defines an idea that is moving companies towards a simpler and more elegant way of doing business.

Facebook builds a “green” data center on the edge of the Arctic Circle

Facebook, the biggest name in social networking, announced the plans to build an eco-friendly server farm in the small town of Lulea in Sweden. One may wonder why the California-based Facebook decides to go all the way to Europe for their newest data center.

Show that the grass is greener on your side – Make your office green!

The green revolution is happening all over us. You can see the efforts of people in the local, national and international scale. However, only a small percentage of the world’s population is practicing the green lifestyle.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint With Reusable Shopping Bags

Making your company stand out from the rest of your competitors is a complex task. Not only do you have to perpetually sustain or even improve your service, you also have to properly establish your presence in your market.

Throw your paper on the ground, not into the trashcan

The amount of daily paper consumption worldwide is shocking. Even if there are numerous of ways to cut down the “cutting down” of trees – sending e-mails rather than printed memos, recycling all the used paper in your home and office, or using both sides of each sheet – we cannot entirely eliminate the use of paper.

Companies that have seen the greener side of things

When a business works on a national or international level, it’s a known fact that a lot of materials are used on a daily basis. It’s also a given that a tremendous amount of waste from even the most mundane of normal day-to-day processes is generated.

10 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Corporate Event’s Carbon Footprint

You don’t have to be a Green company to put effort into lowering your event’s carbon footprint; you just have to be a responsible one. With so many moving parts when putting together a corporate event, the event’s CO² emissions may be last on the list.

10 Amazing Facts About Bamboo

From Eco-pens to bikes to iPad sleeves, bamboo has become the sought after renewable sustainable material to use on everyday items. The bamboo material’s strength, natural beauty & regenerative properties are just some of the reasons for its popularity. Here are 10 more amazing facts and reasons why we love bamboo and use it on many of our eco-promotional items.

Three critical improvements to your company’s promotional approach

Promotional products have become important tools in business awareness. Over the years, it has become a very popular way to advertise & market a company.

6 Simple things you can do right now to help Green your company (#EcoMonday)

Some businesses have a hard time jumping on board the environmental movement. Uncertainties of cost increase and apprehensions of changing procedures stop them in their tracks.

Understanding the Harmful Effects of Plastic in Our Ocean

How much do we really know about the damage caused by plastic waste in our ocean? Here are some informative videos that explains just a portion of what we know. After watching these videos we hope you’ll realize the need to use reusable shopping bags.

5 Inspiring Ways To Recycle Plastic Bags (Videos) #EcoMonday

We all know that transitioning to reusable grocery bags is a must. During this shift, you might still have some left over plastic bags lingering in the kitchen.

(Video) Canadian scientists turn beef carcass into plastic #EcoMonday

Canadian scientists have devised a way that allows them to turn left over beef carcass into plastic. Currently in the developement stages, scientists at the University of Alberta are working with industries to try and implement these beef plastics into car parts, CD cases and other structural materials.

#EcoMonday: 5 extraordinary ways to recycle plastic bottles (Videos)

Today we highlight innovators that draw attention to plastic pollution. While taking action against pollution, these amazing creations educate us that waste can be used as a useful resource through design and construction. When you recycle plastic bottles the plastic can be reused and made into custom reusable bags.

The astonishing life of a plastic bag

Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker. This bags journey can be cut short if more people make the switch to reusable shopping bags.