Archive for November, 2007

November 4, 2007

Week 20 Results: 22.1 oz of plastic

No, it’s not my Halloween costume. Any guesses? Read on. Here’s the weekly tally: Non-recyclable items used this week but purchased before the plastic project began: 5 Refresh Endura single-use eye drop containers (#4 plastic). 1 pump sprayer cap from a bottle of Formula 409 all-purpose cleaner. See below. 1 cap from a bottle of [...]

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November 2, 2007

Hidden Plastic

A lot of plastic hides in objects that many people don’t realize contain plastic: plastic that coats and lines cartons and cans and caps and lids. Plastic that can’t be separated from the material it’s attached to. Here’s a rundown of some of them. Paper milk cartons are lined with two layers of polyethylene, inside [...]

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