I’ve been in a debate with myself for some time now. This debate was heightened when I ordered take-out and I received my food packaged in Styrofoam and contained in a biodegradable plastic bag. I chuckled to myself and thought “how misguided”. I’m often told that I’m too cynical, too critical, but as an environmental [...]
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Your Biodegradable Bag: Is Doing Something Really Better than Doing Nothing?
Posted in Consumer Commitments, Consumption Habits, Environment, Greenwashing, packaging, plastic, Recycling, Uncategorized, Waste, tagged Consumption, Environment, green, Greenwashing, packaging, plastic, Recycling, styrofoam/polystyrene on April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Plastic in my Organic Milk
Posted in Consumer Commitments, Corporate Commitments, Eco-labeling, Environmental Marketing, packaging, tagged consumer products, milk, organic, packaging, plastic, toxins on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I sat down to eat my made in Canada, organic breakfast cereal it occurred to me that I ought to be splashing organic milk on my flakes. It seemed counterproductive that I would be drowning my breakfast in milk that I can only assume contains hormones and random chemicals that my body doesn’t really [...]
