What is Distilled Water?
Read the labels on bottled water, and you will notice that one of the most common methods to purify the water is distillation. This is an extremely energy intensive, wasteful process and it’s not as healthy as you might think. Additionally, because this water comes in single-use plastic bottles, distilled water is not a responsible [...]
Contributing to marine plastic pollution by washing your face
The majority of cosmetic manufacturers use in their exfoliating products tiny spherical particles of POLYETHYLENE (the most common type of plastic) as abrasive ingredient. There have been peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrating that these microparticles (up to 1 mm) are not effectively retained in the waste water treatment plants, ending up [...]
About Bottled Water
Tap water is so yesterday. Today’s consumer has so many better options for their busy, active lifestyle that tap water has been all but forgotten. You can choose from distilled, filtered, purified, reverse osmosis, spring water, and mineral water. You can even buy bottled tap water! You can buy water from France, Denmark, Switzerland, South [...]
Microplastic Wastes in Our Oceans
Most of the attention given to threats on sea life is focused on plastic wastes that we can see. But another peril to the oceans eco-system comes in a much smaller form. The amount of microscopic plastic particles in the ocean has tripled since the 1960’s. All of the plastic ever made is still on this planet. It is either in a landfill, in [...]
The World’s Largest Garbage Dump
The world’s largest garbage dump is the Pacific Ocean. Right now, there is a huge mass of floating plastic garbage that could be twice the size of the United States or twice the size of Texas. No one knows for sure how big it really is. But it has been named the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it is poisoning the ocean and its [...]
Spring Water: Pure, Healthy and Natural
Spring water is the most natural type of water for humans to drink, and contains beneficial minerals and elements. Rain and ground water filter through the earth to an underground aquifer, leaving behind impurities and picking up minerals and elements along the way. But the way we have been drinking it for the last 40 years or so – from [...]
Buying Lunchmeat in the Supermarket
Nothing screams out “Disposable Culture” like a walk down the lunch meat aisle. How many times have you walked past this section of the supermarket without noticing the plastic packaging surrounding the lunch meats? Every time someone buys lunch meat here they are supporting the plastic industry and adding more plastic to the waste [...]
The North Atlantic Garbage Patch
Hundreds of miles off the North American coast lies a plastic garbage patch that is estimated to be at least as big as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The floating soup of plastic covers a region somewhere between Virginia and Cuba. Although The North Atlantic Garbage Patch gets less attention than its cousin in the Pacific, it has been found [...]
