S.U.S.!

These guys sell organic stuff and green stuff, let's write about them

2006-10-31T08:47:00.000-08:00

<li><a href="http://www.brenmarco.com/supermarket/Superindex/organic.html?gclid=CPCRtrLdo4gCFQloYAodLy4TXA/">AmAzInG EnViro PlAstics!</a></li>

NatureWorks PLA -The Revolution in Packaging!

Biodegradable Plastic!
Edible Styrofoam!
party cups made from corn!
Burn these forks in the campfire, it's completely non-toxic and safe to do!

Wooo-Hooo!!!! Let's go crazy!

Why "Stop Using Styrofoam?" -finally, some reasons

2006-10-15T12:47:00.000-07:00

A. REASONS WHY POLYSTYRENE FOAM IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH.

1. Toxic chemicals leach out of these products into the food that they contain. These chemicals threaten human health and reproductive systems.

2. These products are made with petroleum, a non-sustainable, heavily polluting and disappearing commodity.

3. The product does not biodegrade. It crumbles into fragments that have no expiration date.

3. A certain percentage of product will be dumped in the environment, persisting on land indefinitely as litter and breaking up into pieces that choke and clog animal digestive systems in waterways.

4. The product takes up more space in landfills than does paper and eventually will re-enter the environment when landfills are breached by water or mechanical forces.

5. Foam recycling is a public relations stunt, promoted by the chemical industries that manufacture it. This is done in highly centralized, distant facilities using complex chemical processes and expends far more energy than is ever saved by recycling the material.

B. UNBLEACHED PAPER BIODEGRADES AND ITS USE AVOIDS ALL OF THE ABOVE PROBLEMS.
There is a growing number of alternate containers and products available that are made with unbleached paper, a far more environmentally benign material that is made with recycled sustainable materials.

1. Bleaching paper creates chemical pollutants and uses more energy. UNbleached paper is as close to environmentally benign as can be achieved in a non-reusable product. Yes it's still not perfect. If you want perfection make a cup out of your hands.

2. Recycled paper is an easily renewable resource.

3. Paper dissolves and biodegrades in the environment.

4. Paper products can be recycled at most people's doorstep where community recycling is in place.

No to styrofoam, Yes to Environmentally friendly products!

2006-09-22T15:03:00.000-07:00

https://www.konnects.com/recycling/?gclid=CJypmMWHwIcCFQsnYQodkSGwHw

Recycling Connects is a really boring site. S'pozedly to "Connect Business people in the recycling industry", there's really nothing to it. it offers a free trial, which suggests you usually gotta pay, and that's kind of a turnoff. Their graphics are lousy and there's nothing I can gleen from their site to use for this post.

Summary: Don't bother.

unikeeper.com is also another ad featured on this page, and it sucks too. Why? cause I blog about RECYCLEABLE stuff (and I CAP THAT not cause I'm yelling at you, but in a futile attempt at getting adsense to recognize my niche: RECYCLE, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, REUSEABLE, etc etc). Uni keeper is none of that, just more plastic stuff. Yuck.

Wow! On my sty-ro fo-am (again, broken up to confuse adsense)blog, a cool ad appeared for BAMBOO SHOPSTICKS! Now that's kinda cool, I should blog about bamboo. Oh, the things to do....

Guerrilla anti-styrofoam campaign

2006-09-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

We were going to use this blog as the basis of a guerrilla anti-styrofoam campaign to get companies and restaurants to use environmentally friend products -reduce, reuse, recycle, and no more fucking styrofoam!

Right now, we're too busy to focus on that. If you have any ideas or motivators, please share...

This posting is to test those little squares on the right

2006-09-12T14:46:00.000-07:00

This is a post to test the effectiveness of pursuasive writing vis-a-vis automated scanning for relative topics.

This blog promotes environmentally friendly, sound, and safe products. This blog also is to disuade the use of styrofoam. It's gonna be tricky to get the adverts to respond appropriately:
ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY, YES!
STYOFOAM, NO!
Environment yes!
Sound, green, environmental.
Biodiesel. Reusable. Decompose, compost, recycle, biodegradeable.
Environment.
It's almost a poem....

Why Stop Using Styrofoam?

2006-08-30T16:54:00.000-07:00

Styrofoam is inherently evil.
Previously, it was doubly evil, now it's just singularly so. Doubly because it was made with CFCs, the main agent that ate the ozone layer.
They stopped making styrofoam with CFCs, and now they just use air.
But styrofoam is evil because it will never go away: never decompose, never biodegrade, it will always be there.
Forever.
Forever-ever.
Forever-ever-ever.

How this blog started

2006-08-24T11:33:00.000-07:00

B and I were in downtown Seattle the other day, when we decided to stop into a tiny sushi shop for a late lunch. It was a quiet, mom & pop place, an older Korean couple who cutely repeated the order to each other. As we waited for our catepillar roll, I said to B, "I hope they don't put it in a styrofoam container". We'd recently been watching our consumption habits and how often we just use one thing once and throw it away. We'd also been batting about the ideas of two blogs, "Re-use! Everything! Now!" and "Reusable Chopsticks Now!", as well as guerrilla campaigns to get our favorite sushi places to switch to reusable chopsticks.

B surveyed the tiny shop. "Every item of packaging behind that counter is styrofoam," we replied. Sure enough, a minute later, our catepillar roll arrived in a single styrofoam box....

Notes on website

2006-08-24T10:41:00.000-07:00

what's wrong with styrofoam?
Alternatives to Styrofoam?
Information in other languages? Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish.

2006-08-23T21:08:00.001-07:00

first post

2006-08-23T21:08:00.000-07:00

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