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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 […]
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Beauty Hurts: What’s Lurking in Your Cosmetics
When it comes to beauty, a common phrase is “no pain, no gain” – the huge amounts of money that the average woman pours into the $170 billion per year cosmetics industry (not to mention the insane amounts of time) is all supposed to be worth it in the end. But recent exposes on the […]
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Electronics Recycling
In 2010, the world met a significant, though largely unnoticed, milestone when the five billionth cell phone subscription was purchased. In the US alone, we now have 285 million cell phone users. While cell phones are manufactured to last for at least five years with proper care and maintenance, most users will replace their old cell phone with a […]
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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 in rivers and ultimately in […]
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Green and Clean: Green Dry-Cleaning in NYC
Try googling “dry cleaners in Manhattan” and you will come up with over 5,000 hits. Of those 5,000, fewer than 1,500 identify themselves as green or organic. This means that over 70% of New York City’s dry cleaners are using chemicals that are not only harmful to the customer and their clothes, but the environment […]
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