Tag Archives: plastic

For Earth Day: Count Your Plastic and Make it Count

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Susan Freinkel

In Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, I describe how I planned to spend a day not touching any plastic, only to be foiled first thing that morning by my plastic toilet seat. So I spent the day making a list … Continue reading →

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Weird plastic fads

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Susan Freinkel

Thankfully this one failed. Why, you may ask, are these women wearing plastic beaks? To protect their faces from falling snow!  Luckily, in case of cone-failure we could always fall back on the hat.

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News from the South Pacific

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Susan Freinkel

Earlier this week I spoke by satellite phone with Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins, co-founders of 5 Gyres, an organization created to do research and public education on the problem of plastic pollution. By now, the “garbage patch” in the … Continue reading →

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