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Portland, Oregon Becomes Latest City to Ban the Plastic Bag

12:58 pm in Business & Politics, oregon, plastic, waste by TreeHugger

portland plastic bag ban photo Photo: Zainub, Flickr, CC BY-SA Oregon's largest city has just joined a growing list of municipalities that are fed up with plastic bags -- It has just adopted an ordinance that will ban plastic bags from major grocery stores, as well as some big box retailers. Even better, the ban is slated to go into effect in a mere matter of months ......Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could the Resurgence of Soda Fountains Banish Bottled Waste?

1:50 pm in Business & Politics, plastic, waste by TreeHugger

soda-fountain-bottled-waste.jpg Photo: Library of Congress Starting way back in the early 1800s, folks relied on soda fountains to get their fizzy fix -- they'd head to department stores, diners, candy shops for the carbonated stuff. They peaked in the 40s and 50s, when everything was swell. Then, with the rise of chain drug stores and bottled drinks, they began their inexorable decline. Now, the only time we use soda fountains are when we head to fast food, and those are Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Confusion Reigns Over Plant-Based Bottles, Which Is Exactly What Coke And Pepsi Want

2:39 pm in bottled water, plastic by TreeHugger

plantbottle-manufacture.jpg Amy Westervelt of Slate tries to get to the bottom of Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles, concluding that they "still damaged the environment." But she also caused some confusion and had a few mistakes, some of which have been corrected. She notes:
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's plant-based bottles are still very much plastic.The companies have merely replaced the fossil fuels (petroleum and natural gas) traditionally used to make their plastic bottles with ethanol from renewable sources (plant waste in Pepsi's case and Brazilian sugar cane in Coke's).
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More Uses for Plastic Milk Bags

9:51 am in Food & Health, packaging design, plastic by TreeHugger

milk bags drying photo Image credit Lloyd Alter Many Canadians buy their milk in plastic bags (see Is Drinking Milk From Bags Weird?); next to returnable and refillable bottles, it is probably the greenest way package the stuff. In past posts, some have argued that cardboard cartons are probably better as they are recycled, although plastic bags are as well. But this past weekend I noticed a number of milk bags drying on a line over the sink at a friend's house in Dorset, Ontario. I asked my host Elizabeth what she did with them; she said many things, because they are so strong...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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