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Polystyrene Takeout Food Packaging Pollution
Polystyrene Takeout Food Packaging Pollution
At the SDSU Earth Fair, 2009
KEEP The BEET met one great ally,
ANTHONY RUSSO. His company EARTHSMART
and BIOSMART produces compost friendly
takr out eating ware made out of sugar cane
bagasse by product. Anthony's products
can help us outgrow styrofoam use
and take on this Polystryrene takeout Food
Pollution Problem.
Date: 2/5/2010 12:03:17 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 3080 times
This caught my eye the other day,
Thanks to KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
She is very concerned about the Stryrofoam
in our oceans.
She is happy that California is doing something!
She wants to make sure that
ANOTHONY RUSSO's solution to the pollution
is one everyone's list of go to people for
solving this serious problem that is not only
filling our oceans with garbage, but
destroying our air supply.
Air supply?
Yes, we get a lot of our oxygen from the ocean.
POLYSTYRENE TAKEOUT FOOD PACKAGING POLLUTION
http://www.cawrecycles.org/issues/plastic_campaign/polystyrene
Californians Against Waste
Frustrated with the increasing amount of unrecyclable food packaging waste in our marine environment, streets, storm drains and landfills, local governments across the nation are prohibiting the use of unrecyclable plastics such as foamed polystyrene in takeout disposable food packaging. These plastics, impractical to recycle due to their light weight, are the most common form of marine debris and cost local governments millions in storm drain clean up costs. These costs are especially high for communities with impaired waterways, such as the LA River (pictured at right). Foamed polystyrene is one of our country's most ubiquitous examples of over-processed, overabundant and unnecessary throw-away packaging, and also one of the most costly. Learn more about what you can do to stop the stream of polystyrene waste into our communities, and about its abundant, economical, and recyclable alternatives.
Learn More About Polystyrene:
The Problem of Polystyrene
AB 1358
Local Ordinances
At the SDSU Earth Fair, 2009
KEEP The BEET I met
ANTHONY RUSSO. His company EARTHSMART
and BIOSMART
produces compost friendly take out compost friendly
eating ware made out of sugar cane
bagasse byproduct. Biosmart products
can help us outgrow styrofoam use.
Sustainable is an emerging idea.
It is a key now for economic survival
and "Thrival."
Our seas are now inundated with
plastic that is a byproduct of our
throw away way of thinking.
There are mountains and islands of
Plastic at sea.
THIS IS WHERE WE CAN ORDER
BIOSMART, COMPOST FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE
THAT WILL HELP
THIS IS THE LINK FOR ORDERING
BIOSMART, THE DINNERWARE PLATES
MADE OF SUGAR CANE BAGASSE
RATHER THAN STYROFOAM
LEARN MORE ON THE BIOSMART
TAKE OUT CONTAINERS HERE
http://www.biosmartpackaging.com/Biodegradable_Containers.html
HERE IS THE PROBLEM
Most of our mothers went
to great efforts to teach us how
to use a toilet, but the truth is,
most of the plastic we use,
95% of it in the USA, ends up
in landfills or dumped in the
ocean.
What we are dumping is killing us.
It is taking away our open spaces.
It is taking away the air we breathe.
Now comes the creators of
a film called ADDICTED TO PLASTIC.
if you want to have your eyes opened
to why we need to get away from
drinking from conventional plastic bottles...
go get a copy of this film.
IT is can be ordered from
The EARTH CINEMA CIRCLE
Http://www.EarthCinemaCircle.com
2009 Volume 3.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500334260/
Filmmaker Ian Connacher conducts an international odyssey revealing the disturbing long-term effects of the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. From water bottles and Styrofoam cups to toothbrushes and garbage bags, in less than a century the pervasive presence of plastics has marked every ecosystem and all aspects of human activity. Visually compelling, entertaining and thought provoking, ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is both a wake-up call and an inspiring consideration of possible recycling or down-cycling solutions.
RELATED BLOG
WHAT IS OUR LIFESYTLE SUSTAINING
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1421376
Are you living your life as part of a cycle
of Life on a wheel of health?
This is what THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
is all about. THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
was one of DR. BERNARD JENSEN's Favorite books
and inspired him to go to Hunza to study
the laws of health demonstrated by people
who lived in harmony with the earth.
Being part of THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
means living in a cycle that returns good for good.
THE WHEEL OF HEALTH IS online
Please look over Chapter Ten:
Progress by Recoil
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1421993
This chapter contains principles
we need to to mature into
being "Plastic Potty Trained"
Today we do not know what to do with
our waste. We call somethings waste
that need to be returned to the soil.
According to film ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
only 5% of the plastics we use ends up
recycled.
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1380339
Is This Yours?????
Did you lose your Toothbrush?
Did it end up off Hawaii at sea
in a trash pile of disgarded plastic???
IAN CONACHER, director of ADDICTED TO PLASTIC, shares
some photos from GREENPEACE TAKEN at Sea. His
Cryptic Moth Blog is filled with photos from his three year journey making the film.
6:05 AM
May 18, 09
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
In this point-of-view documentary we examine our dependence on one of the most creative, and alternately toxic man-made substances on the planet, plastic. Addicted to Plastic took three years to film, was shot in 12 countries on five continents and details our 100 year relationship to this highly developed substance. The film poses sophisticated and cutting edge solutions involving recycling, biodegradability and even plastic made from plants. This is a hopeful message about a pollutant that challenges all life on the planet, the sea and land, and the air we breathe.
85 minutes, Directed by IAN CONNACHER.
Http://www.EarthCinemaCircle.com/
"ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
was a wake-up call for me as a marine scientist. This film presents the viewers with a grim, realistic look at how the food chain is being affected due to plastic confetti invading nearly every square centimeter on earth. This documentary is a sort of eco-horror movie, detailing how persistent plastics sprinkled throughout the ocean and land carry chemical compounds up the food chain and onto our dinner plates. The word 'bioaccumulation' truly strikes home in a frightening and understandable way after viewing this film. Addicted to Plastic is a sobering must-see and needs to be shown at every educational level globally!" Dr. James M. Cervino, Assistant Professor, Biology and Health Sciences, Pace University, Visiting Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Department of Marine Chemistry
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/atp.html
ADDICTED TO PLASTICS
is included on 2009 Volume 3
of the DVD disk
from our friends at
the EARTH CINEMA CIRCLE:
Http://www.EarthCinemaCircle.com/
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is one of four films
on 2009 Volume 3.
RED GOLD is also very compelling
and life shifting. I saw RED GOLD recently at the
PRO PENINSULA WILD and SCENIC ENVIRONMENTAL FESTIVAL
in San Diego.
RELATED BLOG:
INVESTING YOUR LIFE in
THE BANK OF COMPOST:
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1420836
I met PETER FONDA in January 09.
He was breathing heavy when we
talked at the PERF GO GREEN EXPO.
He was concerned about diatoms
and other single celled life forms in
our ocean that produce
most of the air we breathe.
Let me say that in another way:
The amount of air, and the quality
of air you are breathing now
is being made at sea in the ocean
by single celled life forms.
Those diatoms, that produce
our air supply, according to Peter,
are dying.
Their air supply is being choked
off because most of us are not
plastic potty trained.
How do we get Plastic Potty Trained???
I would highly recommend reading
THE WHEEL OF HEALTH by G.T. WRENCH M.D.
We will be looking at sections of the book
this Wednesday that relate to soil depletion
and returning what we use to the Earth.
We will look at the Bank of Compost
as a place to invest our energies
and why sustaining our life
on the Wheel of Health is important.
You can read the book online
or get a copy with updates from Dr. Jensen
in the version he produced called
A HUNZA TRIP WITH DR BERNARD JENSEN.
Information about ordering the book
].
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TONY TRACY invited me to the PERF GO GREEN EXPO,
an event his company was helping to underwrite
in Los Angeles in January '09. It was there that
I met MARC WOLLMAN of the ECOUSABLE stainless
steel water bottle company. Marc gave me one of the
PERF Go Green water bottles he had made for that show.
Through Marc, I then met JOEY MENDELSOHN, who started
Ecousable.
Marc told me that EcoUsable
was coming out with
a new bottle that has a filtering system that
replaces the need for 100 gallons of plastic bottles.
At the NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST in March,
I met Joey and CARL PALMER,
the inventor of this amazing filtering system.
At that event I drank potting soil from one of the
EcoUsable water filter bottles.
The water came out clean.
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