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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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